 Lightning Strikes! Now What?, Owner shocked! (no pun intended) |
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 Jul 24 2007, 11:33 AM
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Jul 24 2007, 12:03 PM
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Duct tape aint gonna do it.
You'll need to determine exactly what bit the dust and replace it. -------------------- "This isnt right. This isn't even wrong!"
"Its easy to deal with your toaster exploding, but dereference one Null pointer and you're screwed. That is fault tolerance." |
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Jul 24 2007, 12:36 PM
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Buy a new one.
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Jul 24 2007, 03:22 PM
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 Hardware Guru Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,814 Joined: 25-January 07 From: Tiffin, Ohio Member No.: 108,353 |
What exactly are the symptoms that lead you to believe your monitor input is fried, and which input the one on the computer or the one on the monitor. This is an unfortunate example why you should have everything plugged into a surge protector or a power station.
-------------------- ~Chad~ Biostar P4M900-M4, Celeron 2.7GHZ OCD 2.95, 2GB patriot DDR2 667 CL3, 60,20 GB IDE HDD, Windows XP Professional SP2, SAS, MBAM, MCAFEE STINGER, Zonealarm, Linksys Router, and Palm TX HandHeld. Sys 2 (FAH Machine) Athlon 650, 768 mb Pc133, Windows XP SP2 |
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Jul 24 2007, 03:35 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 27-June 07 From: USA Member No.: 139,892 |
QUOTE(Sneakycyber @ Jul 24 2007, 04:22 PM)  What exactly are the symptoms that lead you to believe your monitor input is fried, and which input the one on the computer or the one on the monitor. This is an unfortunate example why you should have everything plugged into a surge protector or a power station. Its the input on the computer, and everything was plugged into a surge protector. Methinks it's had it. |
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Jul 24 2007, 03:58 PM
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Hardware Guru Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,814 Joined: 25-January 07 From: Tiffin, Ohio Member No.: 108,353 |
1. Does the computer turn on?
2. Do the drives and fans spin up? 3. Does it POST? -------------------- ~Chad~ Biostar P4M900-M4, Celeron 2.7GHZ OCD 2.95, 2GB patriot DDR2 667 CL3, 60,20 GB IDE HDD, Windows XP Professional SP2, SAS, MBAM, MCAFEE STINGER, Zonealarm, Linksys Router, and Palm TX HandHeld. Sys 2 (FAH Machine) Athlon 650, 768 mb Pc133, Windows XP SP2 |
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Jul 26 2007, 06:17 AM
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 Still visually handicapped, new avatar :0) Group: Moderator Posts: 14,706 Joined: 2-October 05 From: Southeastern CT, USA Member No.: 35,824 |
Lightning strikes are a real PITA! I've been through several and have found a couple of things to help:
1) Surge protectors on your power AND on the cable/DSL/phone input. I've had components destroyed even with surge protectors because the surge came through my cable. 2) Multiple layers of surge protection - when the lightning hits and blows the surge protector you're left unprotected until the surge protector resets itself or is shut off (this happened at my wife's office - the first strike blew the surge protectors, and the second one a few seconds later blew the computers. As for what to replace, it can fry your network cards, it can fry your RAM, it can fry other internal components - but the only sure way to tell is to look for strange behavior and troubleshoot it (usually by replacing the component with one that's known to be good). -------------------- - John
**If you need a more detailed explanation, please ask for it. I have the Knack. ** |
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