Reply 20 of 71, by adalbert
Miphee wrote on 2021-02-16, 07:16:ESD is not a serial-killing monster, I haven't lost anything to ESD and I haven't used an ESD bag in years.
I lost hardware to ESD twice: first time it was SiS 530 mainboard, it stopped working right after a spark went on some data lines, and second time it was Commodore C64 CIA chip, which had one pin damaged because of a spark going to joystick port, thus disabling the functioning one joystick button. That's not much hardware, but ESD was the direct trigger of failure there.
BTW I have one Ti 4200 with some slight artifacts now, will try transplanting memory from FX 5200 and see the results.
Repair/electronic stuff videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/adalbertfix
ISA Wi-fi + USB in T3200SXC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX30t3lYezs
GUI programming for Windows 3.11 (the easy way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6L272OApVg