Struck by Lightning?

OR, you could just buy a surge protector and you wouldnt have to worry about any part of your computer being fried.

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If the computer gets hit... its gone. It the phone line or power lines leading to the computer get hit, it would be questionable.

My parents had an ungrounded phone line for dialup. It got hit by lightning, and it fried the modem. Well that what the pops says... Personally I think he was looking at to much porn.
 
Ya my moms work got struck by lightning and they were giving the computers away but they took the hard drive out before I grabbed one. :( And they even had surge protection!
 
we've had lighting storms before, only once has it affected my PC, i was at someone elses house and left my PC on, then the lighting started, i got back and the PC was off, thats it, nothing fried at all, i dont use surge protectors either, and my PSU is a pile of crap, no built in surge protection there...

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I've never had anything happen to my computer during a thunder storm except for it turning off whent he power goes off, but my friend's network card was fried during a thunder storm.
 
Calibretto said:
Ya my moms work got struck by lightning and they were giving the computers away but they took the hard drive out before I grabbed one. :( And they even had surge protection!
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Then they probally shouldn't have bought them at the 99cent store(surge protecters)
 
If lightning doesn't hit your house then a power surge protector (high quality) would do the trick...but if it hits your house then its another story. I would recommend a classic lightning rod or Lightning Protection System (LPS), designed to capture the discharge current and conduct it to a particular point. If your still worried about your home electronics.;)
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
Those dont work well for lighting, they are designed for normal power surges that come over the power lines. If lightning striked your house or power cables near your house, anything thats plugged into the wall may fry, unless you use specially designed protectors.
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It's struck, and actually all the power in your house is grounded. Meaning lightning wont affect it if it is hit...

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See that third little prong there... thats the ground.
 
Well thanks for the input. I'll try out the parts to see if they work. I threw the CPU away cause I didn't want to deal with it and the motherboard's broken cause I ripped a wire out of it. :) but I still have the disk drives, RAM, some PCI cards, and fans. Oh and a case!
 
Ouch. There's a good chance that most if it will still work. Often, just removing the modem does the trick.
 
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