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Static Electricity!
Name: Eric Williams Date: May 21, 2005 at 07:45:03 Pacific OS: Win XP Home Edition SP2 CPU/Ram: 2.60GHz P4 800MHz FSB HT
Comment:
When I put together my computer, one of the only problems I had was connecting the USB ports to the bus on the motherboard. I had done it before on several systems and knew what each wire did, but the god forsaken motherboard manual did absolutely nothing to give me even the slightest inkling of which pin was which. Well it turned out that the manufacturer, in all of its wisdom, decided to leave out the grounding pin - and now, half the time I connect a USB device to my case, my computer restarts. This can't be good for the motherboard. Should I just ground out the chassis, or am I missing something?
Summary: Unless you've got some radio control in your system it sounds like a connection/cable/bad grounding problem. Static electricity shouldn't interfere with a closed circuit that is properly installed and...
Summary: When I turned on my PC, I guess I had a lot of static electricity, because I got a really big shock. The PC then started up into the BIOS all by itself. Before the shock, the PC was having video car...
Summary: Hi M, I would say that it's the airflow through the system that is causing the static electricity. My guess would be that the design / layout / placement of that system is making it stack up more stat...
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