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

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Original poster: "bob by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <forlaser-at-gte-dot-net>

once a buddy of mine wanted to 'rma' his cpu.... it was an old pentium, pre
mmx days.... we took the cpu it's self, and put it upside down (pins up) on
a ground rod outside... whe then arced a oudin coil (50 kv lets say)
directly to the pins for about 5 minutes.. this is what it took to kill the
cpu... prior to that, he used the oudin coil to arc directly to the
motherboard while the machine was plugged in, but not turned on...
notinghappened... the thing still booted up and operated...

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Date: Thursday, July 05, 2001 1:15 PM
Subject: Complete destruction if the Geeks perfectly good p133...


>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. Dont ask me about the reeboot thou :)
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>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...
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>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? Just
>to show how well it must have been built...
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>Jason
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