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- Jul 31, 2004
I have an IKEA FREDDE desk. If you look at the picture, the frame and the top side panels are metal. My cats like laying on the top shelf. Whenever they move around, it is producing enough static charge to go through the frame and arc over to my USB hub (near the back cable routing hole, and not actually even touching the frame). I am guessing it is the shortest path to ground, though it is getting there via an expensive motherboard . I will constantly get that little Windows noise that it gives when a USB device "malfunctions", though nothing has broken (yet?). Is there any safe way to connect the desk directly to ground (e.g. via the wall socket) that doesn't have a risk of electrifying the desk frame (and subsequently electrifying my cats)?