Hello all,
My system (seasonic x760w PSU, i5 2500k, asrock z68 extreme 4) is around two years old, with no problems. Last week I started getting electric shocks from a microphone (samson meteor mic, lots of metal parts) I was using. After some poking around, it seems that all the usb ports and metal parts of the casing is giving me shocks. This is not static electricity since the shocks are continuous.
After googling and some reading, the prevalent wisdom here suggest that the source of the problem seems to be either bad wiring or bad PSU. I can't really do anything about the wiring and it doesn't really explain why it was working fine before (no changes in the house or appliance), so I focused on the PSU instead.
I disassembled the PC and disconnected everything, taking the mobo and PSU out of the case (to rule out mobo shorting the casing). With the PSU connected to the motherboard (only ram and cpu installed, no cards) and nothing else, I plugged the power cable and used a multimeter to measure the voltage.
Everywhere on the mobo, the multimeter showed around 80 to 100 volts AC, including the USB ports. (I live in 220v country, and we only use 2 prong cables).
Convinced that my PSU is faulty, I bought another unit (they only have 700watt unit in stock), brought it home and tested it again (Only PSU and mobo or just PSU alone). To my surprise, the new unit shows the same symptoms (multimeter showing 50 to 90 volts), but even worse, even the surface of the PSU shocks me when I touched it.
I'm really confused now, what to do next?
Is it possible that my mobo somehow "burned" both the PSU?
Any pointers appreciated, thanks in advance.
My system (seasonic x760w PSU, i5 2500k, asrock z68 extreme 4) is around two years old, with no problems. Last week I started getting electric shocks from a microphone (samson meteor mic, lots of metal parts) I was using. After some poking around, it seems that all the usb ports and metal parts of the casing is giving me shocks. This is not static electricity since the shocks are continuous.
After googling and some reading, the prevalent wisdom here suggest that the source of the problem seems to be either bad wiring or bad PSU. I can't really do anything about the wiring and it doesn't really explain why it was working fine before (no changes in the house or appliance), so I focused on the PSU instead.
I disassembled the PC and disconnected everything, taking the mobo and PSU out of the case (to rule out mobo shorting the casing). With the PSU connected to the motherboard (only ram and cpu installed, no cards) and nothing else, I plugged the power cable and used a multimeter to measure the voltage.
Everywhere on the mobo, the multimeter showed around 80 to 100 volts AC, including the USB ports. (I live in 220v country, and we only use 2 prong cables).
Convinced that my PSU is faulty, I bought another unit (they only have 700watt unit in stock), brought it home and tested it again (Only PSU and mobo or just PSU alone). To my surprise, the new unit shows the same symptoms (multimeter showing 50 to 90 volts), but even worse, even the surface of the PSU shocks me when I touched it.
I'm really confused now, what to do next?
Is it possible that my mobo somehow "burned" both the PSU?
Any pointers appreciated, thanks in advance.