Magnetic Screw Driver?

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bigmanute

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Just built my new gaming pc, when screwing in the motherboard i usually use a screw driver with a fairly weak magnetic charge, this time i used a snap-on screw driver that seemed to be quite a bit more powerful than my other one, everything seemed to want to stick to it. Could I have caused any damage by using this screw driver?
 
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bigmanute

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seems to be running great, I worry a lot :/
 
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bgunner

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no need to worry. Like I mentioned before, I use a magnetic screw driver all the time installing the motherboards. The only thing I will not use them on is the HDD. This is not so much as it will wipe them because the magnet is to weak as I wont take the chance. Most new cases have toolless drive bays so this worry is becoming less and less.
 
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apache_lives

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You ever experienced how powerful the magnets in a mechanical HDD are? Better yet get some old working hdds, put some data on them and get a massive magnet and wipe them down all over hell leave them together for a day then check your data and run a full diagnostic (hardware and fs), then come back and post the results saying nothing happened.

These hardware myths need to stop.
 
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bgunner

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Huh? A really strong magnet will corrupt the data on a hdd ( magnetic storage device). Im not to sure what your trying to say here?
 
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