A few weeks ago I splashed out and bought myself a brand new laptop which cost me 24,000.00 Baht and it turned out to be a nice computer and I enjoyed using it. Then where I live we had a bad storm with long periods of thunder and lightning . My new laptop was connected to my home wireless router via an Ethernet cable and I normally keep the laptops power brick plugged in at all times to keep the machine battery constantly charged. As soon as I heard the thunder I instantly unplugged the Ethernet cable and pulled out the power brick connector and turned the computer off then I sat back until the storm passed over the house and the thunder and lightning stopped. Thinking to my self what a good job I had done by quickly disconnecting my brand new laptop from any thing that could possibly cause a problem relating to the storm the smile on my face as I switched back on my lovely new laptop suddenly turned to a worried look.
My brand new laptop would not turn back on no matter what I pressed no lights on the keyboard no screen springing to life . Just a completely dead laptop. From what I eventually learned my big mistake was to leave the HDMI cable plugged into the laptop that connected an external monitor and that still connected monitor although the monitor was not switched on but some how had allowed an instantaneous voltage surge due to a nearby lightning strike to connect to the laptop and fry the main mother board.
Thankfully the laptop mother board was replaced under warranty ( I never mentioned about the lightning ) to the service desk person .
There must be others here who some times live under the same storm conditions , what do you do to protect your precious computer equipment when the thunder and lightening starts.
NC
My brand new laptop would not turn back on no matter what I pressed no lights on the keyboard no screen springing to life . Just a completely dead laptop. From what I eventually learned my big mistake was to leave the HDMI cable plugged into the laptop that connected an external monitor and that still connected monitor although the monitor was not switched on but some how had allowed an instantaneous voltage surge due to a nearby lightning strike to connect to the laptop and fry the main mother board.
Thankfully the laptop mother board was replaced under warranty ( I never mentioned about the lightning ) to the service desk person .
There must be others here who some times live under the same storm conditions , what do you do to protect your precious computer equipment when the thunder and lightening starts.
NC
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