Hi All,
Just wanted to update you on recent event's & to warn you all against that Old Mother Nature!
We were experiencing some freakish weather over the past week. This included some severe thunder storms where I live. Chrisaw will back this up as he is only less than 10 miles away from me.
On Monday we had some very stormy weather whilst I was at work. Unfortunately I thought the surge protector would be my saviour in this case but didnt expect what happened. We had a very close call with the lightening. This however, I must admit was a bit unfortunate. The lightning struck a street light outside my neighbours house & spiked across causing a surge down the telephone / broadband lines. Whoops!
As the power points are surge protected the telephone line is not. Its not something my provider doesnt seem to hold as a priority!
The surge came into the house, went directly to the router which was linked to both my laptop & Dell XPS gaming system
via ethernet cable.
Even though both computers were off at the time the current was such that it seems to have cooked both computers as well as the router
This is the reason that I have been absent from the ingame activities just lately.
As you can imagine it was a bit of a shock & I urge all of you to take precautions with your hardware & use me as a very costly example.
Please get some surge protection on all feeds to your PC's as this could happen to you!
Also, dont feel sorry as all is in hand & I will be back online soon.
Any recommendations for gaming Pc's including graphics cards processors etc would be helpful.
See ya all soon.
Regards.