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I have never once seen a cap on a motherboard blow someone across the room
The ones on the motherboard are very small, and weak compared to the ones you seem to be thinking of.
Anyways, removing the battery from the motherboard, and pressing the power button is standard procedure, I think it is even asked on the A+ exams on how to properly discharge the caps and they say use the power switch, after the pc is unplugged from everything.
BTW, the flash capacitors used in cameras, that store 300v, leaves nasty burn marks on your fingers if you happen to short those out. -.-
Also, you are sort of going back on what you said, it is known to most techs to NEVER EVER EVER wear an antistatic wrist strap attached to a pc when playing around with caps in the pc
The ones on the motherboard are very small, and weak compared to the ones you seem to be thinking of.
Anyways, removing the battery from the motherboard, and pressing the power button is standard procedure, I think it is even asked on the A+ exams on how to properly discharge the caps and they say use the power switch, after the pc is unplugged from everything.
BTW, the flash capacitors used in cameras, that store 300v, leaves nasty burn marks on your fingers if you happen to short those out. -.-
Also, you are sort of going back on what you said, it is known to most techs to NEVER EVER EVER wear an antistatic wrist strap attached to a pc when playing around with caps in the pc