Where to ground inside ?

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Where to ground inside ?

Post by woox » Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:17 pm

I am wokring on my laptop and I was wondering for internal power supply where do I screw in the ground wire? Should I screw it into the metal frame of the mother board it self? or do I screw it into the acrylic case/

Where is it supposed to go?

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Post by LoyalistRevolt » Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:16 pm

Picture of the PCB?
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Post by woox » Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:04 pm

no its the power source..the incoming (3 prong) power 1 ground wire should best go where from that?

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Post by mothatrucka » Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:15 pm

LoyalistRevolt wrote:Picture of the PCB?
He's right. We need to see your motherboard to be able to tell you where it's safe to ground something.
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Post by woox » Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:43 pm

Its the bottom right area (where the power comes in from):
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Post by thehackerinside » Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:21 pm

A PS3 laptop :shock: , Good luck :D !

Any of the screws holes should work fine as I'm sure that whole edge of the metal thing is touching the grounding strip round the edge of the MB

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Yeah it touching the edge so the screw holes will work as long as the metal shielding thing is still attached if not just solder straight onto the grounding strip.

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