Lighting Strike

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bsmokey

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Greetings All,

Two nights ago, a tree in my back yard was struck by lighting. All was well in the house with the exception of the computer. The Verizon FIOS modem had an error light on. Verizone sent me a new modem and it still would not connect. Off to the computer repair store to learn the eithernet connection on the motherboard was fried. A fix was to add an additional eithernet card at $30.

This works great and so far no problems. Now my OCD sets in. It is driving me nuts the port on the mother board is fried. The computer is three months old and I use it for gaming. Other than the fried port. is there anything else to watch for? I would guess since none of the TV's in my house fried the surge must have come from over the air into the modem and to the eithernet port. Is that is possible?

Am I being a baby about the port? Could anything else be damaged?

Thanks in advance for the responses.

George

Virginia
 
Just be glad that it didn't fry your whole system. Most likely came in through the phone line. As long as everything works, you should be fine. Just keep an eye out for weird things start to happen. It may be beneficial test your hard drive and memory.
 
It is possible that there is more damage; however, the longer you use the machine without anything acting weird, the less likely it will be that there was additional damage.

In your case, I'm thinking that the modem took the brunt of the surge and it took out your LAN port in the process.

Be happy that it only cost you a $30 network card.
 
Dngrsone said:
It is possible that there is more damage; however, the longer you use the machine without anything acting weird, the less likely it will be that there was additional damage.

In your case, I'm thinking that the modem took the brunt of the surge and it took out your LAN port in the process.

Be happy that it only cost you a $30 network card.
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I'm not sure how much stock i put in the idea of the surging passing through the router?? It came in along the wire into the router and then the surge got "routed" to his eithernet port? i mean i can see how it might, given the entire modem could have just acted as mere resistance to the surge, but I'm not convinced.
 
You zap something with a few thousand volts and you are going to have stray voltages everywhere.

CMOS-based devices such as ethernet transcievers are sensitive to excessive voltage levels.
 
Thanks for all the replies. So you think the surge came throuigh the cable? I guess I am glad my large screen TV and other electronics did not fry.

What are the either net ports on a motherboard connected with?

George
 
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