my computer got struck by lightning, and i havent been able to get online for a while now. its been almost a week, i've resorted to going to friends houses and bumming their computers, which i'm doing now. just wanted to say whatsup i havent been around in ages it seems!

 

I was wondering where you've been.

 

lol, no1 can go long w/o A-CL....its addicting


but yeah man that sucks that ur comp got struck by lightning...just be glad you weren't on it when it happened

 

whats the odds of that happenings?!?!

 

i was wondering where youve been at! that sucks dude!

 

that suks man

get that shit fixed

 

How do you know it was struck by lightning?

 

NEVER EVER TURN ON UR PC WHEN ITS STORMING OUT... ** even the power black-out can F-up ur pc when its turned on** Get a surge suppressor and plug it in.

 

I hereby offer my computer's services.......

 

I agree, but what happens with out a surge protector? Fry your CPU & Mother Board?

 

... motherboard.. sometimes CPU too... worst case.. ur harddrive ... or ALL 3 hahahaha.. so a fair warning for you peeps out there using ur pc without a surge protector... u might just get hit.. even if ur pc's off.. its gonna fry ur ssssssshiet~

 

lol i thought he meant like

the computer was a lightning rod and took the hit for the team or something

 

damn eric that sucks...another cane is coming this weekend....

 

damn...ur 1 unlucky guy. did that happen to anyother people in a-cl?

 

just heard on the radio

eye of the hurricane is 30miles wide...hurrican is 300 miles wide...theres a chance the whole hurricane can engulf the width of FLORIDA

 

usually when u get hit by one of those....ur power supply take the hit. does ur computer have anypower wat so ever? if there isn't any power going threw ur computer then its not anything major probably just the power supply u can pick on of those up for like $30 for a 350W

 

was it from hurricane charlie?

 

ur comp got struck by lightening ?!?!?!?!!!!

 

yeah, what the hell.... did you attach a 60 foot pole to it while you sat on the roof of your house...


ya need a surge protector buddy...

 

Most surge protectors won't make that much difference to a real surge. Weeney MOVs are parallel to the power wires, so if they fail it just means open season. Series mode protection is where it's at. Saw a demo from SurgeX where they popped a 4kv surge into their unit every 30 seconds - didn't affect it at all (I had to have watched at least 20 pops - and this demo ran all day for 4 days of the trade show). On the other hand, most MOVs toasted on the second hit, some on the first.

Best option is to just unplug the computer.

 

i heard somewhere that u need a surge suppresser to protect agaist lighting storm. is there any such device?

 

that shit is odd although, if id was hit directly id say you need to get a new computer because that much voltage trhough the ram moduals, CPU, as well as your cmos vid card sound card and pmu is WAY more than enough to completely destroy the cis protector and BLOW the chip to shit. If you need a custom built pc though, i can get one made for you under 400 smack ( the basics, p4 2.4 with the usual equipment.

 

well, my whole damn computer got fried. so i got a new one, but it wasnt working either. so i had to go to my cable company ,since apparently their connection for my hi-speed got zapped also. right now i'm at my dads office, i got a tech coming tomorrow. but with my luck and the hurricane about to fuck us up, it wont matter anyways

 

if u just need a basic computer, get a dell, under 400 u get a p4 2.8 256MB DDR Ram 60 or 80GB harddrive, CD burner. keyboard, mouse and sometime a printer with it.

 

Sucks for you...I've got an APC power back up battery system ;]

 

i should get some sort of backup for my comp, if I ever lost my HD, i would seriously cry

 

i have that too but i unplugged everything when my power went out