I use the side of my CPU to stick some notes in it with button magnets to keep them up there, but some of my officemates mentioned its bad for the computer. is it true?
2007-01-10 21:14:15 · 8 answers · asked by rinkumi 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Magnets are disasterously bad for CRT screens (the not-TFT ones). If you bend the colour mask you can permanently damage the screen. Forever. Irreperable. Magnets are disasterously bad for hard disks and floppy disks and tape drives if you have any. The magnet can wipe out the data on the disk or tape. Not much else in a PC is adversely affected by magnets though.
Saying that, small magnets on a steel case of a PC are probably not going to do any serious damage as the case should act as a keeper... especially for those designed to stick notes to notice boards. Even so, if you notice any colour fringes on the CRT near them take them away... and avoid the case round where the disk / diskette / tape drives are just in case...they should be OK but you'd hate to damage your hard disk.
The stronger the magnet the more risk... so if little button magnets are OK doesn't mean it's OK to use a loudspeaker magnet.
2007-01-10 21:28:15 · answer #1 · answered by bambamitsdead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being an Electronic Technician for 12 years,, I can think of no effect such a tiny magnetic field would have on the computer. Besides. the vast majority of the tiny fields are fully contained within the steel of the case of the computer. No Effect.
2007-01-11 05:25:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes very bad, Move the magnets away from the computer now
2007-01-11 05:33:47 · answer #3 · answered by lukeee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes absolutely it is dangerous to your computer..screens and monitors are typically sensitive to magnetic elements..try having a magnet put in front of a tv, it will change the color of it..
more hazardous than that, datas which consist of logic 0 and logic 1 travel in the memory of a computer that once altered with an outside force will result in a system crash..
even if it a small magnet, it will have an entire effect on the transportation of data..
in technical term, magnets produce emf or electromotive force that alters the behavior of a data..
2007-01-11 05:33:25 · answer #4 · answered by angelvein 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes that true, since computer is made from sensetive component so please beware of the magnet get touch any part of the computer. not only the computer, the disket and disc will also infected. So please besure any item that contain magnet like speaker or handphone, please put far aways from the computer.
Thank you and have a nice try.
Regards,
DJ SkyWalker
2007-01-11 05:28:57 · answer #5 · answered by DJSkyWalker 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is, as it affects the hard drive, which store's data on it magnetically.
2007-01-11 05:22:40 · answer #6 · answered by chimeitekisentou 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
VERY bad! I'm amazed your computer still works!
2007-01-11 05:29:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is
2007-01-11 05:21:32 · answer #8 · answered by Preet_Answers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋