Okay, so maybe the thread title has an obvious answer.... but this is actually the problem I am having, and am yet to succeed in finding the cause.
My HTPC build is tucked away under the stand for my bedroom LCD, so it's never really been out in the open since first being finished a couple weeks ago. I had felt a tingle when brushing up against it to plug peripherals in before, but assumed it was just the hair on my arm getting snagged in a seam of the case. Well, last night I was going to turn the fan up slightly using the PCI control panel for the first time, and I got a legitimate shock when I first touched the steel thumbscrew for the side panel.
I immediately shut down the rig and have been attempting to figure out where on earth the case could be contacting a power source. There are no bare wires I can find within the PSU bundle. There are unused molex connectors that were tucked away and perhaps could have touched something, but would have been unlikely to have had their tips form real contact with the case.
I don't even know if there would be enough power flowing to an empty molex connector to deliver what was a fairly hard shock to a human. Even moreso, I don't understand how I have been running this thing for weeks now without a single issue while apparently having every metal surface of the build electrified. Has anyone else got any ideas before I simply put things back together and see if I get tagged again?
My HTPC build is tucked away under the stand for my bedroom LCD, so it's never really been out in the open since first being finished a couple weeks ago. I had felt a tingle when brushing up against it to plug peripherals in before, but assumed it was just the hair on my arm getting snagged in a seam of the case. Well, last night I was going to turn the fan up slightly using the PCI control panel for the first time, and I got a legitimate shock when I first touched the steel thumbscrew for the side panel.
I immediately shut down the rig and have been attempting to figure out where on earth the case could be contacting a power source. There are no bare wires I can find within the PSU bundle. There are unused molex connectors that were tucked away and perhaps could have touched something, but would have been unlikely to have had their tips form real contact with the case.
I don't even know if there would be enough power flowing to an empty molex connector to deliver what was a fairly hard shock to a human. Even moreso, I don't understand how I have been running this thing for weeks now without a single issue while apparently having every metal surface of the build electrified. Has anyone else got any ideas before I simply put things back together and see if I get tagged again?