On 10/08/2013 12:04 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
Occasionally I hear of people booting their motherboard on an antistatic bag or on top of the box that the motherboard came in, but I generally try not to do that.
Definitely a bad idea. The anti-static bags have a metalic coating on the outside (that's how it's drawing the static away from the components inside the bag), so powering up the board on the anti-static bag can short out the leads sticking out from the bottom of the board. Cardboard or wood are best when the board is not mounted on standoffs
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