Hello everyone,
I know my questions may be a bit paranoid, but I'm really new to the whole desktop thing. Few months ago, i wanted to clean fingerprints left from assembly on my AIO pump head. I made a post where i asked about the procedure (here it is http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3652231/cleaning-aio-pump-head.html). In short i switched off the PSU, opened the case, grounded myself to the PC case and wiped the pump head with lint-free cloth (i have read that they are not likely to develop ESD + the pump head should not be ESD senzitive). It all went well and there aro no apparent problems with the PC afterwards.
This day though i decided to clean my PC of dust. I have read a lot of guides on it and most of them stated that you need to unplug all peripherals (monitor, keyboard...) before opening and cleaning the PC. This left me a bit scared because when i was cleaning the pump head, i didnt disconnect anything, thinking that it is not necessary when everything is off and there should be no power running (PSU was turned off).
My question is then-were my precautions enough and i am simply worrying too much when everything is fine, or is there any way i may have damaged my system by not disconecting the PC peripherals (even latent damage counts)?
Update: just updated my language in the post to make it less confusing.
I know my questions may be a bit paranoid, but I'm really new to the whole desktop thing. Few months ago, i wanted to clean fingerprints left from assembly on my AIO pump head. I made a post where i asked about the procedure (here it is http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3652231/cleaning-aio-pump-head.html). In short i switched off the PSU, opened the case, grounded myself to the PC case and wiped the pump head with lint-free cloth (i have read that they are not likely to develop ESD + the pump head should not be ESD senzitive). It all went well and there aro no apparent problems with the PC afterwards.
This day though i decided to clean my PC of dust. I have read a lot of guides on it and most of them stated that you need to unplug all peripherals (monitor, keyboard...) before opening and cleaning the PC. This left me a bit scared because when i was cleaning the pump head, i didnt disconnect anything, thinking that it is not necessary when everything is off and there should be no power running (PSU was turned off).
My question is then-were my precautions enough and i am simply worrying too much when everything is fine, or is there any way i may have damaged my system by not disconecting the PC peripherals (even latent damage counts)?
Update: just updated my language in the post to make it less confusing.
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