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Foam Pink Stuff

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maxkilling

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Just noticed that SOME of the foam pink stuff that used against ESD, protecting mobo's etc conduct electricity good enough to cause a mobo not to start up when laying on it
It didnt even got to the screen showing the drives installed.

Removed the pink stuff and works straight off.


:eek:
 
Originally posted by maxkilling
Just noticed that SOME of the foam pink stuff that used against ESD, protecting mobo's etc conduct electricity good enough to cause a mobo not to start up when laying on it
It didnt even got to the screen showing the drives installed.

Removed the pink stuff and works straight off.


:eek:
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huh, interesting, i ran my comp on that for about 2-3months, no probs......maybe there was something underneath it causing probs? like a paperclip? (just a thought, im not questioning you or nothing)
 
Originally posted by kllrnohj
huh, interesting, i ran my comp on that for about 2-3months, no probs......maybe there was something underneath it causing probs? like a paperclip? (just a thought, im not questioning you or nothing)
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agreed, did you have your board propped up against something so the PCI cards didn't pop out? I wouldn't see why the foam would affect ANYTHING. It's not electrically conductive, so it woudln't have shorted anything :\
 
I did notice that some of that foam stuff collects static too. maybe some sort of capacitive issue?

btw, the foam I noticed the static on was white, not pink, but as far as I could tell, was made from the same stuff.
 
isn't the anti-static bag conductive? did you have the mobo on that, did you, i really hope you didn't.........
 
Originally posted by kllrnohj
isn't the anti-static bag conductive? did you have the mobo on that, did you, i really hope you didn't.........
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yeah, that's what protects the parts, but i dont think they're electrically conductive enough to short things, either. I've run my mobos bare on those sheets plenty of times
 
Originally posted by diredesire
yeah, that's what protects the parts, but i dont think they're electrically conductive enough to short things, either. I've run my mobos bare on those sheets plenty of times
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yeah, but i've heard it the other way from some other people, seems like maybe it just depends.......
 
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