Aug 23, 2006, 02:03 PM
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You're still alive, but that doesn't mean you'll be if you try again. Pretty much anything that uses large capacitors plugged on relatively high voltage can be extremely dangerous, even if you supposedly discharged the capacitors first. I've seen some CRTs (old TVs actually) where there's a switch that's supposed to discharge capacitors when someone's doing maintenance, and it doesn't always work. I've been messing around electricity since I was 6, and I'm still quite reluctant to open anything that could kill me unless I really have to, so it's really not a good idea to do so unless you know what you're doing.
As for your actual problem, I wouldn't blame hardware immediately. Start by looking at the process list in the task manager to see if there isn't something that's always using part of your CPU. Usually it's spyware or some borderline spyware piece of software. Then it's also possible that Windows itself is taking more of your CPU than it should, and this doesn't always get reported in the task manager which can be annoying. I know it happened to me once for pretty much no reason at all, I guess Windows just broke. There wasn't much I could do other than reinstalling Windows.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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