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The author appears to be in Vancouver BC Canada. In US/Canada, it is safe and code compliant to have floating ground in a GFCI protected outlet. The GFCI provides the safety benefit that ground is supposed to provide. Obviously having both GFCI and ground is better, but having only the former is allowed. Occasionally, ground serves additional purposes beyond safety, but that doesn’t apply for a computer power supply. Additionally, in US/Canada, it is unsafe (and against code) to wire a new outlet directly to water pipe. Ground-neutral bond is required at the main service panel because the “ground” (soil, water pipe, etc) isn’t a good enough electricity ground. The ground wire in the outlet must be wired to the main panel (directly, or through subpanels), where 3 things are connected together: neutral bus, ground bus, and the “ground” (soil, water pipe, etc). All in all, the author didn’t find the root cause of the problem. And in trying to fix the problem, the author introduced more bugs. |