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Used to pull RAM straight out of a running tower, now I shut down and ground myself first
Back in my early days at a shop on Delmar in St. Louis I'd yank a stick of RAM out of a machine that was still humming, and somehow I never fried a board. Last week I watched a kid at the bench do the same thing to a client's PC and my stomach flipped, so I made him power down, unplug, and touch the chassis first. What's your shop's rule for pulling parts, do you bother with a wrist strap or just touch bare metal?
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skylerw8711d ago
Why risk a client's board to save ten seconds? Power down, unplug, touch the frame. That's the whole rule. A wrist strap is cheap and takes two seconds to clip on, so there's no excuse. I've seen enough dead boards from lazy techs to know better now.
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