Re: Lightning Strike and surge

Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
RobV wrote:
John wrote:

We had lightning hit across the street from us and my PC got
zapped along with other items in the house. Yes, I had two surge
suppressors to no avail. My home built PC is running a Intel
D915GEV MB with four WD 250GB hard drives and a PCI-E ATI All In
Wonder video card. The PCI-E slot got zapped and everything else
is working. So, I'm running the onboard graphics for now.
However, the computer is now starting "VERY SLOW" but all
devices seem to work.

Sponosaurus is correct...if the strike did that much damage, you
can be sure it did damage to nearly every other component in the
case.

Nonsense.

Why is that, Matt?

It's all on the same circuit. There is such a thing as partial
failure, it's not all ones and zeros.




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