Jon
25-06-2007, 08:45 PM
Hi all,
On Friday I returned home after a hard days work to find that my wireless internet modem / router thingy wasn't working... I jumped in the car and shot off to PC world and bought a replacement netgear wireless router / ADSL modem. Excellent, I thought expecting to switch it on and be back up and running. That fixed the broadband connection problem but when I came to turn on my desktop machine nothing happened. I took the cover off and had a look inside and found that the telephone modem which usually runs an answering machine had a chunk out of the computer chip (fried).... next I had a look at my network printer and found that was also damaged...
Im guessing that the telephone network was struck by lightning near the house and the surge through the phone lines has fried everything that was connected to it. I have a surge protector on the mains electric but not on the telephone line.
Fortunately I have a works laptop so I can still get online but I have loads of stuff on the hard drive of my PC and no way to retrieve!
Just got to wait for the insurance company to get back to me now. :rolleyes:
Winge over! :D
Ps. if you've not got any surge protection on your PC have a look at getting some... it's a lot cheaper than replacing everything!
On Friday I returned home after a hard days work to find that my wireless internet modem / router thingy wasn't working... I jumped in the car and shot off to PC world and bought a replacement netgear wireless router / ADSL modem. Excellent, I thought expecting to switch it on and be back up and running. That fixed the broadband connection problem but when I came to turn on my desktop machine nothing happened. I took the cover off and had a look inside and found that the telephone modem which usually runs an answering machine had a chunk out of the computer chip (fried).... next I had a look at my network printer and found that was also damaged...
Im guessing that the telephone network was struck by lightning near the house and the surge through the phone lines has fried everything that was connected to it. I have a surge protector on the mains electric but not on the telephone line.
Fortunately I have a works laptop so I can still get online but I have loads of stuff on the hard drive of my PC and no way to retrieve!
Just got to wait for the insurance company to get back to me now. :rolleyes:
Winge over! :D
Ps. if you've not got any surge protection on your PC have a look at getting some... it's a lot cheaper than replacing everything!