OK...so i was at my friends house fixing his computer. I had to reinstall windows, no problem there. But i couldnt get his wireless router card to work, so i opened the case up and switched the slot it was in. Seemed to work. Right after we get it all going, a screw driver falls on the mother board the computer shuts down   After 10 minuets of pressing the power button with no luck, we give up and go to eat. We come back and i say the hell with it and start poking the mother board with the screw driver. To my surprise, the computer booted I thought for sure it was a goner! Weird no?

you probably short circuited it or sum8, so not really that weirdo. more a safety precaution

very odd, screwdrivers fix all with a single poke

I have to ask - why the hell would you poke the motherboard with a screwdriver?


Anyways - if you don't know what's wrong then get it checked out bcz something's wrong with the system.

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Originally posted by blade
I have to ask - why the hell would you poke the motherboard with a screwdriver?

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Originally posted by blade
Anyways - if you don't know what's wrong then get it checked out bcz something's wrong with the system.

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lol *poke* *poke* *ZAA..AAA..AAPP* *flyin across the room* *crash*

cud have gotten electrecuted

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Originally posted by kingboy
and start poking the mother board with the screw driver

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Hahaha, thats a funny story, I generally only use the correct equipment when opening a computer, that includes a crazy little wrist band and a crocodile clip thing...

oh yeah!!! professional...

Nah, not a wirst band like that, I think its to prevent short circuiting if you touch anything wrong, basically, its a static wrist band, and you clip the crocodile clip to the outer casing of the tower...

I think you can buy them from shops like PC WORLD, or some small hardware shops, my uncle (the ones that I use) got his from over in Canada, when he worked for coretec incorporated building computers...