Ugh, tell me about it. Our office was near a lightning strike once where the surge came in over a phone line, through the DSL modem, into a switch, and to all the computers connected directly to that switch and one further switch even.
Half the computers on our network had burned out network card, a few bad motherboards, some bad RAM? a switch that seemed to work but really didn't (and had half the ports burned out with the lights always on), etc. Seemed totally random what equipment was fine, what was totally destroyed, and what was somewhere in between. Awful. Scott On Apr 5, 2011, at 9:58 PM, Greg Sevart wrote: > Lightning can have very unpredictable and bizarre failure modes. I had a NIC > hit once that continued to function, could receive data at full wire rate, > but would only transmit at around 500KB/s. I had a dual socket motherboard > hit once that inexplicably was saturated with interrupt requests, consuming > about 70% of all processor time. So yes, it's possible. :) > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid >> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 8:53 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [H] Possible bad PATA controller >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> My neighbor asked me to look at his pc because it was apparently dead. We >> had a bad storm last night and my first thought was a dead PS. Sure > enough, >> there was no response from fans or anything when turned on. We went and >> bought a new PS and the system came up. >> >> >> >> This is an older Dell desktop with two SATA, one PATA, and one floppy > port. >> He has two smallish HDs on the SATA ports and a DVD-ROM and a DVD >> burner on the one PATA port. I can see the two DVD drives in the bios, > but >> disk manager (XP) nor windows explorer can see the drive, The drives have >> power (they open and close). I reseated the cables in case I jostled them >> while putting in the new PS. >> >> >> >> My question to you all is do you think that something got messed up > (surge) >> on the MB that is preventing the PATA port from working? If not, what > else >> could it be? >> >> >> >> I suggested that if we could not get the DVDs working, we could > consolidate >> his HDs, remove the extra one, and put a new SATA DVD drive on the now >> free SATA port. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bobby > > >
