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Using Magnatized screw drivers
Name: zamaan Date: November 9, 2006 at 09:25:07 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 128 Product: AMD
Comment:
Hai
Is it true that we should not use Magnatized Screw Drivers to fix motherboards?
Name: Badboy Date: November 9, 2006 at 10:22:50 Pacific
Reply:
You should be careful with magnetic screw drivers ..... but I use them all the time and have never had a problem ... yet.
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Response Number 2
Name: Derek Date: November 9, 2006 at 11:17:46 Pacific
Reply:
You do have to take care with them but I can't think of any components on the mobo itself that are affected by magnetism. Chips, resistors & capacitors are immune. I suppose ferrite beads wcould be affected but that's about all I can think of. Small transformers could be but I don't recall them being used.
The field strengths of screws magnetised by a screwdriver are very low.
The HD and floppy drive are the only devices I can think of where magnetism could cause problems and even then you would probably have to be poking around inside them.
DerekW
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Response Number 3
Name: street1 Date: November 9, 2006 at 16:47:01 Pacific
Reply:
I have never had a problem using a magnetized screwdriver.
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