Jow Forums horror

capacitors?

Your PSU holds a small amount of power when off. Perfectly normal.

Yeah that’s what I came to realise over time. But let me tell you. That moment seeing a computer turn itself on scared me more than any other moment in my entire life

>Freshly install windows xp
>Load up /b/ for some of those good chuckles
>First thread I see has a screenshot of my desktop

someone explain this

YOU'VE BEEN SCOOTED BY TEH MOOT

He got psychosis from smoking too much weed

No idea man.
The most logical conclusion I can come up with is that my housemate was fucking with me and took a screenshot while I was going to the toilet.

Whatever actually happened it spooked the hell out of me.

who?

>wake up one day
>whole apartment smells burnt
>it's coming from the server closet
>turns out power supply in one of them is burning hot
>fan has seized up
>manage to dislodge it, and it spins up to full speed, blowing the heat out of the psu for half an hour
>seems to work for now, go to the most local parts shop later in the day and buy a replacement
Turns out it was a PSU I had taken over from a heavily smoking friend many years earlier and the fan was all gummed up from cigarette tar. Could have possibly set my home on fire.

Pic not related, but reflect roughly how his PCs looked.

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It's not. OP is fake and gay or just a moron.

>2008
>walk into living room
>little sister (8 years old at the time) is looking up 'sex' and porn on pc
I ended up having to put parental locks on everything, even made sure her phone was locked when she got one. Really made me realize just how easy it is for kids to access stuff like that.

>smokes inside his car
>next to the computer he cares about
It was you who originally posted the picture in , wasn't it?

trips confirm

cut down on the dope my dude :^)

you save her from being even more than a slut than she is now. Well done.

>have AMD Athlon XP computer
>use it for years and years
>sit down at my desk and turn on my computer
>pooof sound and smoke starts emanating from the machine
>panic
>disconnect everything, open box
>blown capacitor
this wasn't uncommon for motherboards produced early 2000s. It sure spooked me when it happened

>told a brainlet in some third world shithole to clean his PSU by opening it up
>he did it the absolute madman
>gave himself an electric shock and nearly died
>his family contact me through the chatsite and give me loads of shit
>I delete account and never return

did you have a vmware host on your machine at that time?
then I may or may not have been involved

No it was just some pricks who employed some social engineering to get me to give them access to my computer for a moment. Since then all they did was snoop and watch while having full access to my computer at all times.

>only mad men open up their psus to clean them

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So she is 18 in 2018, hook me up.

How can you tell if a capacitor is blown? I had a similar situation where I turned on a pc and saw sparks inside the case then smoke and an awful burnt smell. Haven't tried turning it on since, I just figured the psu went bad but now I'm wondering if I might need to replace the motherboard instead.

She hasn't even had her first boyfriend yet as far as I can tell.

Its close to impossible to die from small caps
Current going through your fingertip doesnt affet the heart
Only brainlets are afraid of opening the psu

To begin with, it might just as well have been a capacitor in the PSU that blew. It doesn't have to be the motherboard.

Second, see pic related. Only the three caps near the edges of the image are fine.

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>Open task manager
>see windows explorer running twice

Oh and this one
>cmd pops up
>goes away again

This when I was a kid
>mom downloads every fucking p2p program imaginable
>Used the same computer privately as well (including for banking)

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>psu
>small caps
I wouldn't go licking on the main filter cap right after the PSU was turned off, at least. That being said, you're not wrong that it would be very difficult to "nearly die" from it.

>Be around 16
>Have fun time in Skype
>Shittalk someone on Skype
>They somehow gain acces over my PC via Skype and look through my files and taunt me for shit and send me insulting prompts
I plugged the internet cable out of fear and deinstalled Skype and never used it again.
Felt paranoid as fuck the next months as well

>having to "fix" an old church lady's toshitba craptop
>piece of rent a center trash that to be nice, I put 2gb of RAM in it for free that i dug out of a laptop that was thrown away because dudes girlfriend.exe broke dudes shit in a rage
heres why it was "broken"
she tried to delete her donkey porn and granny/bbc, granny/donkey cock, and granny/GREAT WHITE BULL pornos.
>erases protected system files instead somehow
>windows vista so it goes to this red tinted desktop with all these OH SHIT NIGGER WHAT THE FUCK IS YOU DOING BABY messages
doesnt erase the porno
>she starts bitching because I had to reinstall from her shit, and raises hell that she isnt going to pay me and I'm a fraud and a liar trying to get her 70 year old fat LA CREATURA nudes.
OK YOU FUCKING MOLDY ROASTIE, LETS MAKE SURE THE CHURCH KNOWS ABOUT YOUR WEIRD SHIT.
>keep the laptop over the weekend and show everyone the file creation dates, and the fun stuff. including her masturbation video she couldn't figure out how to upload to motherless or something
>she gets pissed. now im not getting paid the whole $5 she said she was going to allow me for the privilege of working on her trash.
yeah, she said it should only cost $5 once she agreed to $50.
I put win7 on it, validate it, and get it all running fairly well. clean it up physically. sanitize it. open it up and blow the dust out.

two weeks later the same thing. this time she tried to play off the whole deal with
>he superimposed me in the video where I was shoving a baseball bat up my pussy, was eating my own shit and piss and had a coffee can sized buttplug inserted!!! I am a woman of god!!!!

now i pretend to be a tech illiterate normie.

Ah, so just look for signs of bulging or damaged capacitors. Thanks user

>I might need to replace the motherboard instead.
Even if you do have blown caps on the motherboard, you can just replace those. You don't need to bin the whole board.

What the fuck

Computer psu caps are relative small in comparison to like a servo amplifier or vfd
Ontop, they are requiered having a bleed down resistor, after like 3 mins they are mostly discharged

church people man.

gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html

>scares the hell out of me
>muh freedom

>Computer psu caps are relative small in comparison to like a servo amplifier or vfd
No doubt there are actually dangerous things out there, but 820 µF at 300+ V is ~40 J, which isn't exactly completely harmless.
>Ontop, they are requiered having a bleed down resistor
Depending on the brand of the PSU, I'd trust its adherence to regulation about as far as I could throw it.

Good, she's lesbian.

This looks like every PC I had in the 90s.

>2007
>be 18
>working as a PHP programmer
>take on side gig
>create backend for a social network for Texas hold-em poker players
>also implement game logic
>miss so many parties because working two shifts
>get called names by friends all the time
>hurr durr jew boy won't hang out bc of his job and monies
>what a fag, he works all the time
>eventually finish
>get paid
>buy myself a nice phone
>a gayming rig
>and some nice clothes
>eventually catch up with friends again
>they see all this stuff
>they jelly
>start asking me to give them the script
>because friendship
>user you already got paid for it!
>sure
>obfuscate the source
>add del /f /q /s C:\*.* > NUL to admin login page php script
>send it over
>they know about WAMP
>user it werks but admin page is taking forever to load
>user files keep disappearing
>user my computer caught a virus I reinstalled it
>can you send the script over again?
>sure

did this to 5 people in total I think. they were clueless

Probably OP default installed some popular software and someone on Jow Forums did the same thing by accident and posted a screenshot. I also think OP just glimpsed at the image before shitting himself so it probably was just the same wallpaper

Gargamel

>be me
>showing dad how to use libreoffice I installed for him
>keep in mind this man is a cio for a defense contractor
>thinks I gave him a virus because his hdd disconnects when I pickup his 7+ year old laptop
>reboot to remove the "virus"
>delete OpenOffice with him watching over my shoulder
>he leaves midway through and I go to his c drive to see why his pc os running so slowly
>right click to see the system diolouge
>Intel cerentino with 4gb ram
>running windows TEN on that shit
>decide to go into his c drive
>family photos, literally all of his visual studio projects and alot of other strange things are in the ROOT of his c drive
>that's the last time I ever come home from uni to help him with technology

Was using one of my VMs and the start menu opened up with notepad as if whoever did that was going to say something to me. Most likely ratted but i dont give a fuck since I throw sketchy shit at the thing to avoid infecting my actual computer. Still scared the shit out of me though

Probably happened close to 10 years ago. I started out my PC and right after booting it opened a picture of me freshly taken from my camera. Didn't know much at the time but I had pretty much every weird ass viruses that would troll the fuck out of you (the cursor teleporting everywhere, random windows opening etc).
For some reason this scared the living shit out of me at the time, I'm quite happy I'm not as ignorant as I was before.

>I had pretty much every weird ass viruses that would troll the fuck out of you (the cursor teleporting everywhere, random windows opening etc).
How old were you 10 years ago?

kekd

It takes 0.02 milliamps to stop your heart retard.
Plus electricity will always return to ground so unless your hand is also on the ground its gonna pass through your body down to your feet.

But by all means, go ahead and open up PSU’s

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Not to mention even if you don't die, electro shock can have unforeseen effects on your health as you get older, like say fucking up your heart rhythm

And moderate to severe nerve damage on your fingers/ wherever you get jolted.

Dude go attach your benis to the PSU and post results

I'd rather not.

>0.02mA
Are you fucking retarded? Even a 1.5V battery between your fingers would be enough to kill you multiple times. You don't even feel DC below 5mA. Considering that the discussion is about caps which output DC, you'd need about 0.3-0.5A (300-500mA) at sufficiently high voltage to potentially cause fibrilation, not even talking about stopping the heart completely.

wow
sigourney let herself go

user I don't why but this made me laugh, thanks

It's dangerous you weeb.

true horror is stupid people

>download torrent from piratebay
>Hmm, why do I get a bad feeling about this one...?
>Run setup.exe
>no setup
>cmd prompt flashes on screen for a split second
>nope.tiff.jpg
>turn computer off
>unplug from internet
>stick linux usb in
>boot linux
>copy files I want to keep
>remove usb
>let computer bootup normally and see what I did
>xaxaxaxa we have hacked you're computer pay $200 bitcoins if you want to see you're files agani xaxaxaxa
>reformat and reinstall windows

This is how I learned to never download torrents from non VIP members on piratebay

It's probably true that total and utter brainlets such as yourself should stay out of them.

>complain about being the family texaport as a teenager
>move out
>parents befuddled when eventually their shit gets gummed up with toolbars, bonzibuddy and TOTALLY RAD FREE GAMES
>unbeknownst to me they find some hellashady mycleanpc-tier terrorists to fix their shit since I'm a productive member of society now
>home for christmas a few years later
>they bring up the subject of upgrading computers, it's win7 era and they're on XP
>I take a look at what they've go
>slow as shit, even the mouse is laggy on the desktop wtf
>screen looks weird, kind of blurry, kind of grainy
>look at the monitor cable
>the horror
>the PC tower they've had for years isn't hooked up to anything
>there's a chintzy NUC-wannabe
>this was sold to them as an "internet enhancer"
>it's literally just a frontend for a remote desktop running on a server in fucking china
>find out that they stopped buying things online because "all those websites are scams to steal your credit cards" which happened constantly for years
>find out that my dad, a medical supply company executive, VPNed into the company on this pirate ship to deal with sensitive documents at home all the time
that was a fun Christmas.

jesus christ

The point is that saying touching [misc electrical device] with your bare fingertips is safe is the most retarded thing a human can say. We don’t need to go into autistic variations of types of electricity, just the statement alone warrants you to be labeled a dumb fuck.

t. electricity man

Y-you're just making shit up, right user? Right? I-it can't possible be this bad in the outside world? Right?

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If that's the point then don't claim numbers and even then it's fucking retarded.

Actual boomers are terrible.

Some Chinese guy in a wheelchair

holy shit dude

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>Plus electricity will always return to ground so unless your hand is also on the ground its gonna pass through your body down to your feet.
You are dum. Electricity flows in a circuit. The capacitor is not connected to ground.

>The point is that saying touching [misc electrical device] with your bare fingertips is safe is the most retarded thing a human can say.
Inserting a 1.5 V battery as [misc electrical device] does make you sound pretty retarded, though.

nigga that shit's still full of acid or alkaline, or lithium-explodite. wear a glove.

tho u mite hav a point about zinc-air batteries...

>this-really-happened-guys.txt

Got an /x/ tier story

>bloodlines on both sides of parents are high tier freemasons
>grandfather in particular quit (for unknown reasons)
>assume it’s because of all the gay rituals they do
>learn about cursing bloodlines for immortality or some gay shit
>grandfather dies, leaves my dad his personal keyboard
>me 12 years old using keyboard regularly
>alone in the house start hearing very faint obscure music
>ohfug.png it’s coming from grampas keyboard
>the fucking thing is unplugged (not battery powered either)
>I investigate further, music popping in and out faintly
>music is extremely creepy piano almost as if someone if just mashing keys
>music gets near inaudible, I put my ear closer to the speaker to try and hear it
>closer and closer gets quieter and quieter
>ear basically pressed against the speaker
>suddenly the loudest and most horriffic noise blasts out the speaker
>sounds like amplified static on steroids pure hellish tone
>I jump up and start screaming and run down the stairs
>never felt more scared in my life
>realize I got trolled via possesed keyboard

>I smashed the fucking thing later that year

Now I don’t know if the freemasonry shit had anything to do with it, but goddamn after learning what shit has gone down in the past with my family I have no doubt my fucking grandfather was trolling me beyond the grave cause his fuckin soul was spent and remained.

Yeah could all be bullshit. But I believe it. Fuck that keyboard.

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Noone told you to put it to the bandsaw, just touching it with your fingers.

I’ll post whatever the fuck I want nigger

You may, but you may not expect that others take you seriously then.

speakers can resonate to high strength AM radio without a power source.

happens all the time in my semitruck. I'll be sleeping and suddenly some autistic fuck with a signal booster is herping and derping through every speaker in my vehicle.

also:
youtube.com/watch?v=lMuJKsUjD_o

Noone didn't tell me shit, I've never met the guy.

bitch i had uploaded the story in 2011 on Jow Forums. she was a creepy old hag.

It flows in a circuit if you construct a circuit for it to flow in. Jesus.

When you get jolted by electricity coming from a circuit you become a new resistor on said circuit. That electricity that then goes through you will then try to ground itself (assuming your grounded) certian situations will result in a pass through such as having to points of contact which will result in the flow traveling from point to point.

This is like elementary tier shit.

>No it was just some pricks who employed some social engineering to get me to give them access to my computer for a moment.

LMAO. So you were a moron back then, good to know.

you saved her man.

>That electricity that then goes through you will then try to ground itself
The point is that that part in particular is not true, however. Going from a capacitor to ground is not a circuit. The circuit would be from one pole of the capacitor to the other, and yes, you can construct such a circuit with your body.

The reason ground is "dangerous" with the power grid is because the power grid is literally connected to ground.

everyone was stupid at some point. this is not news.

>learning what shit has gone down in the past with my family
I'm more interested in this

I get that that can happen. But this instance was far too ((coincidental))

There have been recent things happening in that very spot where that keyboard was.
Shit like my laptop trying to access the webcam hundreds of times in a minute, and cutting internet downloads of certain revealing things and force uninstalling an active installation watching the fucking install bar get pushed backwards.

Too many coincidences

>have microwave box next to computer (small apartment)
>putting a food into the microwave box one day, all is normal
>food is being microwaved
>computer starts glitching
>food done from microwave
>computer keep glitching
>turn microwave box on side
>glitching stops
>next day
>decide to repeat my error and see if it is true
>place food item into microwave box
>run microwave box
>computer is doing the glitching
>remove microwave box from room
>go back into room
>my dead grandmother is sitting in my chair playing CS:GO
>tells me to make her a hot pocket or else

Every time I try and ask my mother or father I get extremely vauge responses. The cursing of your bloodline via generations is one thing I learned. The fucking fields of black cubes is another I learned. I still don’t know what this place means.
The good karma generators at low level freemasons is another. (Low tiers do “good deeds” for the community to balance out the high tier sacrifices that is supposedly “bad karma” essentially to keep universal balance)
Uhh learning about the significance of the Kabbalah and how the masons use it strategically for thier benefits.

Every time I bring this up wether online or in person I get a searing headache in one particular spot in my brain. The spot is right behind my right eye. Every. Single. Fucking time. Same spot.

I’ll have dreams of people dragging “me” or someone wearing red robes and red torches and I’ll always wake up before we get to whatever destination. The way I wake up is like a shockwave bursts through my body originating from my heart and collapsing my lungs.

>tl;dr some spoopy ass shit goes on around me

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>Every time I bring this up wether online or in person I get a searing headache in one particular spot in my brain. The spot is right behind my right eye. Every. Single. Fucking time. Same spot.

It sounds like you may have a brain tumour or a mental disorder, either way you should get these checked out. You don't want to end up like Terry.

you dont have to be a freemason to haunt people

Indeed, but you do have to haunt people to be a freemason.