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Many PC construction manuals advise the use of an anti-static wrist strap before you start assembling the PC. And an anti-static wrist strap is inexpensive and easy to use. But is it really necessary?

QMy Windows 98 computer has only 32 megabytes of RAM, and my brother kindly provided me with a RAM chip from his old computer. The only problem is that I am afraid to attempt to install the chip ...

Frying a computer component with static is one of those things that very rarely ever happens. Yet it can happen, as I found out recently through personal experience — when building a new PC, I made a ...