Pc hanging after small magnets was attached to casing

Ok, this is really wierd problem i got. i have no idea what happened.

Scenario, a friend of mine brought small patch, the one gets attached to fridges, doors, etc. and attached it to my cpu from the right side next to the dvd-rom.

The moment he attached it, the pc hanged. now, whenever im using, at very inconsistent periods, the pc just hangs. no BSOD, no msg, no nothing. it Hangs (freezes).

i tried to removing the power plugs, i even removed the motherboard cabling (motherboard to psu).

anyone encountered something like this? any idea why is it happening? solutions?

It messed up a chunk of your hard drive, do a full disk check, that might be able to recover some of the corrupted sectors.

Were you never taught that magnets and computers dont mix? Even a small magnet will cause a distortion in the carefully created magnetic field of the hard drive and corrupt some of the data.

and the magnet was close to the hard drives, ouch.

It is unlikely for you to have burnt out an IC with a refridgrator magnet. If you are running windows there will be a utility called check disk, check all the boxes and run that, be aware that it usually takes a couple hours, i usually do it overnight.

ya, im doing it now (with windows 7 RC).

ill have to check all my hard partitions right? the incident happen while i was using windows xp in my other partition. i wont need to check using xp, right?

no, im not kidding. im very upset, it is breaking my heart how my pc is now.

it cant be a coincidence that im sure off. my pc never hanged before. It just happened the moment the magnet was attached. and been happening afterwards.

what is static zap? never heard of it. what you suggest i do about it?

not right now. i might be able to arrange that. First scan for the xp partition showed no error or bad sectors!

now im checking other partitions.

Static electricity is what you get when you walk across a carpet on a very dry day and then get a shock when you touch something metallic like a door handle. Static electricity can damage integrated circuits, and if it happens there isn't much your can do about it other than replacement.

But it's not all that likely that zapping the computer case with static electricity would hurt anything. Perhaps more dangerous would be zapping the leads of a cable what was connected to the system.

try the simple things first, to do a restore to an earlier time, Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Restore, and pick a time before this started, if it stops then you know it was data corruption, if it doesn't well it was a coinsidence, but you will get a answer