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TEKNYNE:
That is funny I live in the Pacific Northwest and see lightning storms every year..,couple of weeks ago one struck about 3 blocks from my work.

saurian333:

--- Quote from: Bender on August 08, 2010, 12:23:41 am ---so what is the cheapest way to protect your whole house from a lightning strike?
sounds like the MOV type actually make computers MORE at risk :banghead:

--- End quote ---

@TEKNYNE: Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most typical surge strips designed to protect against normal surges?  i.e., the smaller surges that happen all the time, which are part of the nature of home electricity.  The power coming out of your outlets isn't necessarily 100% constant; there are brief spikes up and/or down that don't actually fry your electronics outright, but do wear on them over time.

At least, that's the way I understood it.  I'm not an electrician.

KagatoAMV:
Such an impressive job, I'm sorry to hear about the lightening strike. I hope you're able to get it up and running again.

drventure:
Well, as I suspected, Best buy failed miserably with their diagnosis.

Almost verbatim from their report

"The machines don't boot. Don't post, recommend new motherboards"

Duh!

I asked if the harddrives, memory, cpu, PS, etc tested out ok.

"We can't test individual components"

WTF!?

I paid 70$ EACH for two machines to be diagnosed and THAT'S what they come back with!

Needless to say, I bitched until I got my money back.

Now Fry's has the machines. Still waiting on their verdict.



And the good news....

I picked up a replacement Altec Lansing VS2321 2.1 speaker set off ebay. Got it in. I was dreading hooking it up. I pretty much expected the controller board (that I'd removed from one of the speakers and hotglued into place in the buffet itself) to be fried.

But lo and behold, it appears that it was only the powersupply in the subwoofer that was toasted.

Plugged the existing controller board into the new subwoofer and the Arqadium sounds good as new!

So, I gotta do a little steam punkification to the new sub and that part'll be good to go!

saurian333:
That is good news!  Glad to hear you're getting somewhere.

Your story is yet another example of why never to go to Geek Squad on purpose.  If they can't test individual components, how can they honestly recommend a motherboard?  They can't, of course; they're committing highway robbery.  Geek Squad started out as a guy on a bicycle making house calls, and Best Buy bought it and perverted it into just another scam.  They should be sued, hard.  If everyone who took their cars with dead batteries to Midas got told they needed new engines, Midas would be out of business within a month.

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