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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robin Cornelius wrote: > > Basicly ensure you are connected to ground, a very quick and dirty way of > doing this is to touch the PC chassis (when the mains plug is still connected > *BUT SWITCHED OFF*, the metal chasis is connected to earth so you will > discharge any static. Minor point, but I doubt having the PC plugged in makes much difference. "ground" on any modern building is almost certainly connected to a circuit breaker that trips should any current flow, it is probably only connected to earth via being wired to neutral behind the circuit breaker. In that sense they are very poor "earths", hence the networking "purists" (read rich people) recommending optical fibre (or wireless!) between buildings, rather than wire networking cables. Touching the case equalises the potential between you, and the case (and hopefully the components), and that should be sufficient to work on them safely. We should of course test this with a Van de Graf generator, and an old PC, at the next LUG meeting, because I'm not 100% certain. My experience is that it is quite hard to damage most PC components through static (accidently!) but that may just be that the weather is too damp in Devon to get a really good static build up. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC+79uGFXfHI9FVgYRAmGjAKDOpaKsrfEkEvVkHEXIqmTCe48V4ACg0hfz Vr0jCQDIdb8rFdnoMBZh+ig= =0Pfs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html