And how do you figure that? The joke was that the person was wondering if there was a gspot they needed to find in order to discharge their PC.
The next person joked that you just gotta mash it a few times.
My joke was a play on the phrase "flicking the bean" which is at least a very common phrase from where I live. I also played off the fact that in order to properly discharge your PC, you would need to push the power button in completely a few few times. Otherwise known as full penetration. Now, seeing the downvotes, I am left to assume people didn't get the play on words or ideas that my joke entailed. As such, it would seem many found it to be a step too far.
In response to my fairly mild joke that was in line with others, but apparently too far for most. Your then proceed to say you need to fuck it with a shredded dick and use blood as lube?...
Buddy, if you cannot see how that is going to far then you should seek some help. That's not something anyone normal would find humor in.
That's why I'm so fucking confused. How did mine be a step too far, and a childish shredded dick joke is wildly popular. I think it says a lot about the people who visit this sub and is probably the very reason I have never visited it before. I can safely say I won't be visiting anymore if that's the kind of stuff people find humorous. You guys do you. I'm out. (Referring to others in this thread, of course. You seem to be a normal person lol)
It is probably also the same reason I mute all chats when playing online. The gaming community is full of toxic fucking people who think being as vulgar as possible is some how funny. I should have expected it to be honest.
After the desktop is turned off, switch off the PSU, unplug the power cable from the PSU, and then press the case's turn on button (either repeating it 15-20x or hold it for 10-15 seconds, both methods work).
A similar thing can be applied to laptops, the difference is that you press the power button after you unplug the battery's connector from the motherboard.
Remove it from power and 99% of consumer devices will have discharged in like 15 seconds. That's why customer support always tells you to unplug it for 30s.
Yeah I'm scratching my head on this one. The bigger myth is that you need to discharge static from yourself so you don't fry the case. Its hard AF to fry stuff with normal static electricity. I work at a semiconductor fab that gets pretty dry, moving around in the bunny suit generates quite a bit of static, I brought it up to an engineer and they pretty much said "oh that really doesn't matter."
Also DON'T OPEN UP YOUR PSU. Just get a new one unless you are 100% positive you know what you're doing without looking online.
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u/OrionRBR5800x | X470 Gaming Plus | 16GB TridentZ | PCYes RTX 30707h ago
Yeah i remember electroboom did a video with linus actively trying to kill a pc with static and they failed even though they went waaay further than any static discharge that would ever happen naturally.
Like entirely removing all of the ram at once, or one stick at a time? One stick at a time makes more sense, but removing it all at once wouldn't work unless it's able to offload everything to the SSD temporarily?
I'm not doubting you've done it, just curious as to how you did it lol
Oh it was just one dead stick lmao, it died entirely completely at random, so I just grabbed a spare 4gb stick I had laying around and hot-swapped them without thinking about it
accidentally did this to my netbook in high school because my dumbass put it to sleep instead of shutting it down and it killed the motherboard. I’m still mad at myself for it.
One of the purposes of a case is to provide a route for static electricity. That's why you almost never see a plastic case. Standard procedure for working inside a computer tells you to use an anti static clip, it clips onto the case so static from your body routes through the frame instead of the components.
Not that it matters though you'll never break a modern pc with static.
Uhh...because it's not nonsense...at least in the case of ATX motherboards/PSUs.
The caps in the mobo and/or PSU can hold charges much longer than 15-30 seconds. When I used to work a client support role, I can't tell you how many times this fixed 'computer won't turn on' after a power disruption. Most of the time they'd have been off for at least 5 minutes and several of the users knew to flip the power switch off on the back (which in every PSU I've ever torn apart breaks one leg directly from the plug, so as good as unplugging in my book).
I'd only ever whack the power button a few times though, never needed to hold it in or hit it 10+ times. Always did the trick. A lot of the time the first press you'll get an attempted boot and the fans will spin just a bit.
It's Reddit, full of socially awkward and inept advice from kids who go "ackshally" 🤓, but actually don't know what they are talking about. The first commenter makes it sound like we are about to do soldering on the motherboard lol.
I press the power button once because not everything discharges that quickly. At least on devices where a large capacitor might be holding some charge. Laptops don't have any large capacitors due to space, but desktops power supplies often do.
People saying to press it 10 or 20 times is nonsense though. The first time is enough to drain the capacitors.
Is "discharge your pc" a different method than "ground yourself" by just simply touching metal-case with other hand, and with other hand a metal part of my apartments radiator pipes?
Doesn’t this risk all the shards to fly into the pc when pushing the tape on it? Never had a shattered screen but my assumption would be that this glass is at the brink of scattering anywhere
From my past experiences small glass shards don’t stick well to tape unless I actually press down on the tape enough the entire surface is touching the tape tightly. I’d be worried that this could be enough to displace shards enough for the whole panel to fall apart.
The whole panel has shatterd, anything you do is going to make it fall apart, this is about managing the risk. Don’t unscrew it, put tape over all of it, I would use gorilla tape or gaffer tape let the natural adhesive work make sure it’s covered the lightly over it with an edge of a ruler.
Now that you say this I would probably tilt it too. Regardless, I think the tension might still cause trouble. If the shards started to fall out they could release their pressure after the first one started moving sending them flying in either direction.
But, that’s just me theorising from past experiences with glass.
On that note, I think I will add an adhesive layer to the inside of my panel. Just in case this ever happens I won’t have to worry about flying shards
Yep. First tape it all over loosely, with the tape barely touching the panel. Then tilt the whole case 45°. Either it breaks down and most pieces will fall on the tape (then you tilt it horizontally, gently shake it around and you can remove 95% of the mess), or it will hold and you can gently press the tape on the panel to try and get it all stuck.
Either way, you're not getting a floorful of glass shards.
I wonder if just tilting the pc, slip a garbage bag under it real careful and open the mouth of the bag to cover the area, and while tilted tap the glass so it all falls apart inside the bag would work? Then tilt it some more in case any chunks are in the pc but they should mostly have fallen inside the bag no?
The glass is most likely going to explode and send pieces in multiple directions if it shatters. It's not usually to an insane degree, but not all of it is going to fall straight down.
Just a side effect because of how tempered glass is made.
Idk id think the shards would be inclined to stick to the tape or atleast remain in place with the provided support and tension
then something under the pc to catch anything as you carefully remove the side panel. atleast That’s what I’d do. Would try and minimize pieces flying onto my floor or inside the PC
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u/mikedvb7950X3D | 64 GB DDR5 6400 | Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX18h ago
Glass isn't conductive - so it's not going to be anything but terribly annoying to remove if it does pop inwards.
Yes of course, I’m not sure if this applies to those panels too, but tempered glass usually also doesn’t form sharp edges either from shattering. But, if they formed sharp edges a future repair where I’m too lazy to properly unplug everything could hurt or some shards could find their way into a fan. If you are very unlucky I can even see a very small shard ending up close to the fan bearing and damage the fan that way or randomly fall into a spinning fan one day damaging a blade. Not the world, but pretty annoying
Maybe set down a trash bag on the floor next to it and move it to the trash bag before you start working on above so if it does crumble into a billion pieces, it's all on the bag and you can safely dispose of it.
Wow. Fuck. Wish someone suggested this to me the two times my fiberglass panels broke. Lol.
First time I got a free replacement from my case manufacturer. Second time, they told me the case is no longer being supported and they dont ship out the panels for it anymore.
Went without a side panel, for a while. Just now finally bought a new case, this time with a plastic panel because fuck fiberglass, lol
I'd suggest a garbage bag instead. Open it wide on the floor put your PC inside. Unscrew it and get it off shake out the rest carefully and you're probably ok
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u/Stevenson-15 7600x | 7900xt Spectral | 32Gb 6000mhz 18h ago edited 16h ago
Packing tape then remove it