The Cosmic Puppet's Universe.

[Cosmic Puppet]

:lolbig:

Having to discharge twice now. :lol:

[Cosmic Puppet]

Card corrupted again where the first patition suddely became unformatted (so no system)

Had to wipe all the partitions in disk management and am now reformatting it and will have to redo partition/driver etc.

I picked the card up off my table and got a shock through it.

Could such a thing make it fail?

[stephen_usher]

Well, it's flash memory, so a shock could wipe a block of cells, and I guess if the address lines are all zero it's wipe the first one.

[Cosmic Puppet]

Well, it's flash memory, so a shock could wipe a block of cells, and I guess if the address lines are all zero it's wipe the first one.

Oh, okay. I need some way to discharge static while sat at my desk.

[Cosmic Puppet]

Anyone got any ideas on how to ground myself at my desk.

I've just setup my SD card and basically have to get up, walk across the room to the light and discharge my static with my house key on one of the light switch screws before I take my card reader out of the USB hub to stop me zapping it.

Not very practical. A bit Monty Python. If I could zap another person in arms reach I would. :lol:

[Tomswork]

Any metal water pipes or grounded outlets those are my goto grnd

Tom

[exxos]

Isn't there antistatic spray or carpet shampoo you can try ? Short of changing the carpets to a more natural fibre, or underlaying with tinfoil and grounding it, I'm not sure there is much else you can do.

[Cosmic Puppet]

Isn't there antistatic spray or carpet shampoo you can try ? Short of changing the carpets to a more natural fibre, or underlaying with tinfoil and grounding it, I'm not sure there is much else you can do.

I tested not sitting in my chair and everything is fine. I'm going to try to put a piece of different meterial on it and see if that helps.

[rubber_jonnie]

Anyone got any ideas on how to ground myself at my desk.

I've just setup my SD card and basically have to get up, walk across the room to the light and discharge my static with my house key on one of the light switch screws before I take my card reader out of the USB hub to stop me zapping it.

Not very practical. A bit Monty Python. If I could zap another person in arms reach I would. :lol:

Change from nylon to cotton underpants :)

Seriously though, it could be some of your clothing, I have a shirt I wear to cycle in and the damn thing is a static nightmare.

[Cosmic Puppet]

Change from nylon to cotton underpants :)

Seriously though, it could be some of your clothing, I have a shirt I wear to cycle in and the damn thing is a static nightmare.

I've got a black hoodie that crackles when I take it off. I don't wear that indoors though.

It's early doors but haven't had a shock since I put this small towel over my seat.