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Ok I may be late to the bandwagon but for pulling a motherboard to reseat it and or for cabling purposes and having to put back all nine screws on a populated board can be a real pain in the arse right? Right. Well if you have that little yellow screw catcher it can make things a heck of a lot easier. Simply place the screw in the screw catcher and use that to start the screw. Save yourself major headaches and bent capacitors. Works for just about any tight situation.


Just something I stuimbled across last night putting together my new box. Thought I would share.
 
I do believe he is referring to the yellow unit that has the 3 "Finger's" that come out when you press on the top of it, made for getting Screw's and other such small hardware out of a spot where you're Finger's cannot access.
 
Sorry still running on 4 hours of fitful sleep. I hate sleeping when a project isn't 100% done.

Yes the screw catcher with the three flimsy fingers. I am uncomfortable useing magnetic anything on my system.
 
Athlon is Spelt Athlon, not Athelon. Just for future reference.
 
Originally posted by RemisGodly
Not sure how safe that is.
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Just keep it away from your floppy disks and you are good to go. The magnetic field that those screw drivers produce is not near enough to effect anything else. I have been working on computers for about 7 years now and have NEVER had a problem, except for the random floppy disk (which I never use now).

~Aaron
 
Originally posted by RemisGodly
Not sure how safe that is.
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god youre not rubbing it all over an exposed harddrive platter, youre screwing in GROUNDED SCREWS on a NOT POWER UP motherboard.

im tired of this myth
 
Originally posted by kronchev
god youre not rubbing it all over an exposed harddrive platter, youre screwing in GROUNDED SCREWS on a NOT POWER UP motherboard.

im tired of this myth
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I concur
 
No reason to be hostile about it. I agree that it is a myth.

But the parts that matter are.. Lazy people might leave a magnetized part in touch with some part of the motherboard that could effectively change how that part will function. <admittedly stupid lazy people.> It would change it by imparting a magnectic charge to it. And dealing with electricity magnetic charges are bad.

So while it is a myth as long as you are only touching screws and whatnot. What isn't a myth is that you cause a very minimal amount of additional risk. Kind of like handling a processor without an antistatic wrist strap. Sure you probably won't hurt anything. But all it takes is once.
 
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