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| Thread ID: 139078 | 2015-03-08 00:05:00 | Laptop getting hot. | Neil F (14248) | Press F1 |
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| 1395930 | 2015-03-08 21:48:00 | +1 for Blanco. I despair of the rampant lack of understanding of static and the damage it can do even among qualified techs. Coming from the telecommunications industry and having handled circuit boards worth more than my annual salary I've had the anti-static message drummed home. I do use a vacuum cleaner on some of my crappy older machines occasionally - but on blow from a distance and using a metal extension. I bought it from bunnings for $60 just for that reason. I probably wouldn't use it on my current gaming machine I spent a lot of money on though. Another annoyance, how many times have you seen a motherboard or graphics card listed for sale and the photo shows it sitting on top of an anti-static bag. Just don't do that. The outside of the bag is just plastic and can be statically charged itself, the inside has a metal coating. You'd be better off on a piece of cardboard honestly although that's not great either at least it's not as prone to static as plastic. You get a lot of arguments along the lines of "I've been doing it this way for xx years and never had a problem". Well all it takes is one fried motherboard or graphics card once and it's worth years of taking precautions to avoid. What a lot of people don't realise is many times static does very minor damage and can cause those weird intermittent issues that you can never quite pin down. People often blame problems on a manufacturer or faulty part without ever considering they may have zapped it while handling. Earth yourself and if possible your work surface, wear a wrist strap, never put a plastic vacuum cleaner nozzle anywhere near sensitive equipment, avoid touching circuitry and hold the metal/plastic bits whenever possible, and you'll find it's really not much effort at all to completely take the risk of static damage out of the equation so why take the chance? For a really dirty PC I will remove the motherboard/CPU/RAM and vacuum/blow out the case and fans/ filters etc before putting them back in. |
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| 1395931 | 2015-03-08 23:37:00 | Many thanks for the comments especially Wainuitech. I think I'll head to a Tech to do it for me.as it is a laptop. Nota computing matter but as a parallel I always use Armstrong Locksmiths for key cutting. They say they get a lot of business fixing or replacing locks from keys cut by "el cheapo" places |
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