On 8/3/07, Christopher D Maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't get me wrong I haven't had much to do with hardware over the years, but > I have had a little. > > I didn't even think the techs used a wrist strap. But I may be wrong. > > Any other ideas?
Take it from bitter and expensively gained experience that the value of wrist-straps _really is_ worth at least 2 orders of magnitude more than their price. Plastic flooring plus rubber shoes plus a low-humidity day ( frosty or Nor-Wester ) is instant death to electronic equipment if you are not connected to the machinery in question. OK, you could probably get away with just touching the case of the machine 99.99% of the time, but on that one in ten thousand occasion you only have to take a couple of steps to pick up a screw-driver or whatnot, forget yourself and pop - away goes several grand. Honest. Professional computer repair companies are absolutely fanatical about static electricity proof workstations - carbon filled rubber mats, wrist-straps, special no static vacuum cleaners. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
