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Old June 10th 18, 04:25 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Flasherly[_2_]
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Default PC with multiple organ failures

On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 05:33:04 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

I was asked to check out a PC that wouldn't boot. It powered itself off
after a second. It looked like mainboard was kaput. Then I checked out
all the bits I removed. Both DIMMs were bad, and one of the two hard disks
also bad.
There was no obvious damage (such as beer spillage).
So what do reckon happened? A lightning strike?


I don't trust "check it out" broken PCs and dear or good ol' beer
buddies, just between and for a favor among friends. Last one, I'd
also swung a super deal on a Dept. of Defense class, industrial modem.
When I got there, not seeing the modem and asked where it was, he told
me he wasn't sure, possibly that the dog had got ahold to have buried
it in the backyard.

If it did, or if you'd ever seen a lightning strike, it blows the
doors off most electrical services, if not the whole house from off
the face of a map. Just ask anyone in a assessed location with a
lightning or natural disaster clause, what _do_ they pay for that in
an home insurance policy.

Attrition: Lightning is shameful enough where it only strikes once;-
twice in the same spot, then shame on me.

I've also been told by others they've had actual balls of lightning
enter through the door and roll across the room. . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ball_lightning.png

Skeptically, I'd of course first ask the owner if I might look for any
trace residuals, e.g. softball-sized dents deeply impacted into the
side of the computer case. About the same gauge of metal I did once
happen physically to observe, where lightning had struck the side of
an outdoor air-conditioning housing, frying everything inside, along
with half a two-story building's appliances. (So for reason enough
then for them to have sold the house.)

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Remember: Always with, or never spit directly in to the wind.