HP EliteDesk 800 G2 35W Mini Resurrected From The Dead

[CEG3RD]

Interesting exp with my 800 G2 35W Mini. I was fishing for a NVME screw with a magnetic screwdriver (which I've done unaccountable times) and uh oh I didn't pull the adapter and I got an arch. Maybe it was static attracted to an electrified board. I finished install and as expected the system was DRT dead right there when I reattached the adapter. I pulled the hardware and set the PC aside and actually ordered a G3 35W and a i5-7600T as an upgrade to better graphics and a little more power. I held off tossing the PC away and tested the ram and NVME drive in another G2 and it seemed fine. I decided I wouldn't take the time to install the 6500T CPU to test it and set it aside. Not worth the cost of thermal paste I was thinking, since it might be fried.

Next day this morning I began to think about the PC and wondered about slow discharge of power. I attached adapter with no ram, cpu, or drive. I only got a red flash when I pulled the adapter off. Apparently, there was power afoot. Trying to provoke an error code I installed just one stick of ram and sure enough the ole 3 red, 4 white code flashed. It clicked in my brain to pull the CMOS battery and then added the cpu with no heatsink and a SSD. I got no error and the fan was spinning. Time to connect video and finish the install. The system booted up with only a clock error and seems to be OK. I'm typing from it now. Admittedly, I was all too happy to have an excuse to order a new system for very cheap and accepted the "death" of the PC with little investigation, but this is a first for me.

[erico]

Just so you know.

Capacitors hold a charge even when the power is turned off.

Your PC's motherboard has lots of capacitors on it.

All it takes is .03 amps to kill you and capacitors can provide that.

I suspect you meant to write arc instead of arch.