Re: Complete destruction if the Geeks perfectly good p133...

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

>Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>
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>Hi all (esp. chris)
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>I had a look at the pics from the geek frying that poor old PC... I am very
>impressed, and I have a couple of questions, and a theory...
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>Theory - why the motherboard didnt die when it was hit with arcs - the
>capacitance between the ceramic casing of the chip and the air, and the
>board and the air caused the skinn effect to take place, making the
>electricity shoot over the surface of the board/components to the grounded
>case, not damaging it.

Great theory, but you're overlooking a few things. :)

The leads to ALL the components on the MB are exposed, carrying the currents 
directly into the chips. And I don't think that the sub 50 micron spacing of 
the internal chip connects has much standoff :)

Dont ask me about the reeboot thou :)
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There is a "Power Good" lead that runs to most everything inside a computer, 
if you frob this it causes a spontanious soft reboot. Do a Google search on 
Magic - More Magic and see if you can find the tale of a special switch :)


>Question - What dod you plug the computer into? It seems pretty daft to 
>plug
>it into the mains when you have a million volt arcs hitting the thing...
>

Yup, right into mains 120. Through a extention cord and power strip, thy 
both work fine.


>Question 2 - I have a pretty pants computer and wouldnt mind one that could
>take million volt arcs  and still work - who was the computer made by?

Hewlett Packard parts mostly, assembled by THE GEEK GROUP! HA!


Just
>to show how well it must have been built...

It's a tough little bugger :) It's a duplicate of hte systems on the desks 
of the office staff.


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>Jason
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>Geek # 1139 Rank G-1
>www.thegeekgroup-dot-org
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duck




Christopher A. Boden Geek#1
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