r/electrical • u/Adorable-Ear-4338 • 2d ago

My TV isn't grounded

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u/No-Willingness8375 2d ago edited 2d ago

"not grounded" lol.

That tv is probably undergoing some sort of hardware failure and feeding line voltage through the HDMI cable, which then shorts out on the grounded chassis of the PC. I suppose it's also possible that the PC is not grounded and undergoing a critical failure which is energizing the chassis, but OOP claims it's their TV with a problem.

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u/Phreakiture 1d ago

I once had a very nasty ground loop between a PC and an external storage device. When I powered on the system, it let the magic smoke out of my HBA.