Mike, that is rather unfortunate I must say. I have all my machines plugged into ups here in the house and had no problems yet. I don't believe they are more sensitive, but I am curious if anything else plugged into that circuit suffered any damage. There could be other factors, but the one thing I'd check is first that you have the appropriate surge protector and also another thing to consider is how do you connect your Mac to the internet? Do you have it connected to a router and if so is this a hard-wire connection or wireless, or via direct connection to a DSL modem etc. Additionally, how are any peripherals connected and are they connected to a surge protector. There are a number of variables to consider.
Good luck, On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Mike Reiser wrote: > > Hello all, > > My mac yesterday got fried by lightning as I was using it durring a > storm plugged into a serge protector. It all seemed to work fine > until > Apple had me reset the pram to help resolve another problem and then > it > would not boot. Now it won't even turn on. This is the second mac > mini > to do this. Is the mac more sensative to power serges and/or > lightning > strikes than pcs? Would it get fried even plugged into a serge > protector? Also, should I unplug the mac from the wall as well as > turn > it off durring a storm? I'm asking these things because I've used > pc's > durring storms and this never happened with any of them. Thanks, > > Mike > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
