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by David Sladdin on May 28th, 2004

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The keyboard for my PC has a health warning sticker on the bottom of it warning of serious injury and even death? Why is this?

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  • by SethNess on September 25th, 2004

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    While the other post is humorous and contains a great deal of truth about litigation in America, there's more to it than mere lawyering & cynicism about the stupidity of the average human.

    Even if your PC is turned off, a phone modem is still be drawing power from your phone-line, and this can give you a nasty shock. Also, even if your PC is not connected to any cables at all, there ARE places (particularly in the monitor and the "power supply", a roughly squarish, 2-fist-size, fan-cooled silver box inside the main PC box) where there may be capacitors storing a charge that can give you a nasty shock.

    In general, the 2 areas of a PC that you should never try to repair yourself are the power supply and the monitor. Replace them, instead-- don't try to repair them.

    Going briefly back into the world of cynicism, it's also quite possible that the manufacturers of your PC simply prefer that THEY do the repairs, NOT YOU. Toward that end, they may put on the outside of the PC all kinds of warning labels, all the way from "no user-serviceable parts inside; Warranty void if seal broken" all the way up to "Beware of the Leopard".

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    • Phone power is too low of a current to "shock" you. The answer has, really, nothing to do with the keyboard in question.

      gondola

      by gondola on February 14th, 2006

    • Phone juice can give you a buzz. Try licking the bare wires and come back here.

      scubabob

      by scubabob on April 13th, 2006

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