[mythtv-users] shocking hardware issue

[Paul Gardiner]

Josh White wrote:
> One of my frontends has been acting up lately, and today I found a 
> disturbing symptom:  I went to restart the machine, by pressing and 
> holding the power button (since it seemed to be unresponsive) and as I 
> approached the button with my finger, I received what felt like a static 
> shock, and the machine reset, without my actually touching the machine 
> at all. 

I'd imagine it was almost certain that you gave the computer a shock
rather than the other way around. Just walking around on a carpet will
charge you up. Typically it shouldn't upset the computer, though: the
charge should just go to ground through the earth connection.

Cheers,
	Paul.