AMD Athlon Manual page 22

A Guide to Building a PC with an AMD Athlon™ Processor
22914B/0—September 1999
Step 3. Ground Yourself
Use a wrist strap to ground yourself whenever you are working on the internal parts of
your computer. We recommend that you purchase a wriststrap that plugs into a wall
outlet and uses the ground pin of the wall outlet to provide an earth ground.
Another type of wriststrap has an alligator clip on the end and must be clipped to
some grounded object. The computer case will not provide a ground for this type of
strap until the power supply is plugged into the wall socket. Because we don't
recommend that the power supply be plugged into a wall socket until you have
completed the assembly process, you must connect the alligator clip to some other
metallic source of ground.
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage to electronic components can be cumulative.
Each time a part gets zapped, it can be damaged enough so that it will fail before its
normal lifetime. You can avoid any problems like this with your computer system by
using a ground strap.
Photo 5. Ground Yourself
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