Help me stop frying my computer with static electricity

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Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

redeyes posted:

As stupid as this sounds, I am considering grounding my case directly to my house.

Oh, and after disconnecting my Cyberpower 1500va UPS (non pure sinewave) the problem has stopped. I suppose now I get to find a UPS that doesn't do this.

If your outlet is grounded then the case is grounded directly to your house.

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Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

redeyes posted:

I know, after trying so many different computer parts I was kind of desperate for a fix. In any case the UPS is somehow making it happen.

I figure I should get a line-interactive UPS with pure sine wave output like this: https://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-C...s+sine+wave+apc

Have you tested your outlets?

# ¿ Feb 28, 2017 16:37

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Hopefully you fixed that and arn't dying in a fire right now.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2017 22:12

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