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Poll Results: Has your hardware ever been damaged by carpet shock?

 
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post #21 of 48
8/12/07 at 11:31pm
My whole house is carpeted. However, I never killed anything yet.
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post #22 of 48
8/12/07 at 11:33pm
Nope.

Video cards I put upside down (thus the cooler is in contact with the surface, whatever it is), RAM has heatsinks nowaday, A CPU upside down also... trickiest is the mobo
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I hardly ever put stuff on the carpet but times i have nothing died. I usualy lay stuff on motherboard boxes on my bed or the blanket.
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post #24 of 48
8/13/07 at 5:00am
I've never come across it, personally I don't put hardware on the carpet. Better safe than sorry.
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post #25 of 48
8/13/07 at 9:06am
Nope And thank God for that
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post #26 of 48
8/13/07 at 9:30am
I think socks makes all the difference in the world in this thread.
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post #27 of 48
8/13/07 at 9:32am
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThePenguinator. View Post
no, and I've put it on carpet numerous amounts of times...
so? you were just lucky. and if you have done that many times, that only means that your hardware never experienced carpet shock (static from carpet fibers) in the first place

use non static foam or plastic please, $1-2 or free....to protect an investment worth much more.
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post #28 of 48
8/13/07 at 9:34am
I have never damaged anything and Iv had my video card on the carpet a few times :\\
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post #29 of 48
8/13/07 at 9:34am
or use anti-static bags that come with some mobos and other hardware
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post #30 of 48
8/13/07 at 9:37am
Never managed to fry anything through carpet, but I did shut down a laptop with the help of carpet.

I kept walking around a table filled with laptops, setting each one up, I was wearing heavy insulated boots, and thick wool socks, plus a heavy cotton shirt. Everytime I touched a computer my wrist would naturally rest on the finger print reader, and every single time I worked on one of those laptops, I zapped my wrist. Later I attempted to insert a USB memory card, and touched the USB slot first. I saw a 1 cm bolt jump from my finger into the USB slot. The laptop shut down, I quickly pressed the power button, and much to my supprise, it turned right back on no problems.

Other than this I never work on my computer on the floor, too uncomforable, I am lucky to have a nice workbench that I use.
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