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dyno114104

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:confused:i have a small question, i was wondering, my buddies house has twice now, been struck by lighting, did not kill the power in the house, but for some reason, it fries the mobo, both times, now it is on a very expensive surge protector, what is going wrong here? i cannot figure this out, can you please help me
 
Was it on the surge protector at the time it was hit? Good surge protectors are supposed to burn out the first plug, then the next till they get to the last plug when hit with lightning. The big problem is that lightning goes so fast, and is so hard on equipment it will blow through the surge protector and burn out the ports after the surge has gone past. So it might not finally blow anything till it has already gotten to a component part.

It is not unusual to see just one component get fried when lightening hits. I have seen machines where the sound card (PCI) was fried, but everything else seemed fine for a while. Usually what will happen is the motherboard will fail a while later, maybe the processor. When someone gets hit by lightning I always recommend getting rid of the system and getting a completely new system.

I had a machine that I worked on where I replaced the motherboard, processor and memory, kept everything else, but because of the lightning it caused something to happen to the case. This caused the case to keep shorting out the motherboards. We replaced the motherboard for the 4th time, and put everything in a new case, and the system worked fine for the next few years.
 
Just a thought, does he have a cable modem? My sisters PC got fried by a charge that came through the cable line, through the router, and toasted only her PC on the network.

Lightning is a bugger isn't it?
 
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