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[Closed] Getting electric shocks off my laptop!

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Just touched the VGA socket on my laptop, got a tingling through my fingers!

On further investigation - if I touch the outside of the power plug which is meant to be 20V, I get a similar shock. And that's only touching one of the terminals.

I feel as if the PSU has developed a dangerous fault - sound right?


 
Posted : 06/07/2012 12:22 pm
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Possibly.
Or the laptop and psu is fine, and you're sitting on a sofa connected to the mains and are getting the earth return through the laptop.


 
Posted : 06/07/2012 12:23 pm
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Are you Marty Pellow?


 
Posted : 06/07/2012 12:26 pm
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Or you're wearing nylon panties, been looking at the wrong websites and all that rubbing has given you a big static charge that you've just discharged through the laptop.


 
Posted : 06/07/2012 12:26 pm
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just been reading your "W8 doesn't start up properly" thread - presumably startup is quite stressful on discs/processors (and so might expose PSU/earth faults) ??

... are you wearing nylon panties? - be careful if a thunderstorm comes by


 
Posted : 06/07/2012 12:30 pm
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FFS molgrips!

"Why is my CPU not going flat out?" 1 day ago
"Tough problem with Windows 8" 34 minutes ago
"Getting electric shocks off my laptop!" 9 minutes ago

Someone is trying to tell you something and you're not taking the hint 😀


 
Posted : 06/07/2012 12:33 pm
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Time to buy a Macbook.


 
Posted : 06/07/2012 12:35 pm
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Different PC to the W8 one 🙂

It seems to have stopped now.. I had had a shower about 20 mins before..


 
Posted : 06/07/2012 12:36 pm
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you suggesting his wife has wired him up to receive 240v ? 😯


 
Posted : 06/07/2012 12:36 pm