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A Quick Warning About the Dangers of Static Electricity & Computer Hardware Linus Tech Tips

2009-12-22
oh okay that was a demonstration of static electricity I'm not sure if you guys heard that zap but basically this is what happens to me especially in the winter when it's dry when the air is dry every time I walk away from my desk in my awesome winter boots with the static magnet fur inside them so this is just a quick warning about handling computer equipment and this is what I have done actually at my own desk to negate the effects of this because I've actually been zapped so hard by my mouse wheel that I've had my mouse turn off my keyboard that my nose has turned into turned off and then it takes about a minute to turn back on so before you handle any sensitive piece of computer gear or in my case a bloody mouse you should touch a plugged in power supply in order to get the static charge to ground out that was pretty much it you can go ahead and stuff
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