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The spark doesn't have to be big enough to feel for it to cause damage. The damage doesn't always appear immediately either.
Electricity can be totally weird like that. Some chips are stupid sensitive, while others are crazy robust.
Here in South Mississippi, usually the humidity is so high that static electricity is almost non-existent, except during crazy cold weather, which isn't very common, but of course does happen occasionally.
I've actually fixed a lightning struck desktop PSU before, by just removing the full bridge rectifier, cleaning it and the main PSU board traces, and reinstalling the very same full bridge rectifier, lightning melted pins and all, and it just worked.
How? Why? I really don't know, but yeah, sometimes it takes more than a full bolt of lightning to kill something. Yet other components can be so sensitive as where if you just look at it from the wrong angle it fails.
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