Toolkit

[KillCity44]

I am looking into buying a tool kit. I live in the uk, what should I look for in terms of what comes with it? What will I need e.g phillips screw drivers and sizes etc

[ArcticFox]

Why not just build your own with everything you think you'll need?

Like:
A few sizes of Phillips screwdrivers
A torx set if you can find one
A couple flash keys for keeping drivers and whatnot on them
Spare floppy drive, CD drive
www.pcpowercooling.com get their PSU tester
Assorted screws galore
Laptop 2.5" - to IDE adaptor
Little travel mouse
Compact keyboard
Leatherman
Thermal paste
http://www.zip-linq.com/ some of those
A laptop HD in a USB enclosure (for backups and stuff)
Keys to open locked cases (standard for the most part)
A USB WiFi adaptor
Small flashlight, go with a Surefire
A lot of extra jumpers for CD drives and HD's
DVI-to-VGA adaptor
Sharpie
www.highspeedpc.com look for cool stuff there
A bunch of extra standoffs for mounting mobo's in cases
Spare rails for Antec cases
Asprin

Anything else?

[KillCity44]

wow, that's alot, ok, I onyl really need it for upgrades and stuff so a flash card would be handy, could do with some thermal paste, all the screw drivers and stuff, got all them, little torch ive got. all the keys to open cases are the same right?

[ArcticFox]

As for the keys...well, yes and no, just grab as many as you can find and you will probably be set. They aren't "standard" as I stated really, but most of the time they will all work.

[KillCity44]

Ok, brilliant, as I get more confident with taking pc's apart ill build up my kit, for now it's basic but some of your ideas would definately help, e.g the paste and flash card.you know inside a pc? if it was unplugged and everything and I opened it up, is there ahigh voltage that can kill because some things that have internal memory hold electricty yea? do computers do that?

[mazdarx7-64]

YES!! Get a wrist strap to gound yourself to the case, or always touch part of the case while working on the PC.

[ArcticFox]

Correction - the grounding strap is to protect the PC, not you. If it was me vs my PC vs an outlet, I'd rather get shocked myself anyways (I've done it, full-wall-socket-power right to the bone) then lose my expensive PC.

[KillCity44]

yup, just got a wrist strap with a free anti static mat

[mazdarx7-64]

Quote:

Originally Posted by KillCity44

if it was unplugged and everything and I opened it up, is there ahigh voltage that can kill because some things that have internal memory hold electricty yea? do computers do that?

I though kill was refering to killing pc parts, yeh a wrist strap won't do crap for you.

[KillCity44]

so could i get killed taking pc's apart considering they are turned off etc...