Joined: Feb 01, 2006 Posts: 2508 Location: Pensacola, FL
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:55 am Post subject: I HATE WEATHER!!!!
I had my modem and pc on and all, and lightning bolt hit somewhere like right by my house.
It fried my modem and my onboard ethernet.....i had to wait till about 9 tonight to get a new modem and then install a new ethernet card, stupid gay $H1T if you ask me....just thought i would say this because it really pisses me off! _________________ Hotswap Tutorial|FTP Tutorial|HyperX Flashing Tutorial
Joined: Dec 08, 2006 Posts: 2337 Location: Repping the (216) yo
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:38 am Post subject:
That sucks man.. I had 2 computers that had their motherboards fried at the same time from that. Now I have a pretty good surge protector I plug my computer, tv, cable, router/modem and xbox into. _________________
SiK_WiD_iT Moderator
Joined: Jan 25, 2007 Posts: 1625 Location: Big Stone Gap, VA USA
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:40 am Post subject:
sorry to hear that man....at least its fixable...i agree ripz, gotta protect ur $@#! man haha _________________
23r0c001 Xbox-HQ Experienced Xbox Version: 2x v1.6 Modded: Hotswapped Softmod
Joined: Sep 14, 2007 Posts: 141
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject:
My server (which i am using right now) lost a stick of RAM to lightning about a month ago... took a couple weeks to figure that one out. A lot of the time, you'll lose a video card. You're lucky it was just the modem and the NIC... I would hate to lose my gfx card! _________________
dartht33bagger Moderator
Joined: Apr 17, 2007 Posts: 5408 Location: Oregon, USA
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject:
Thats why if it looks like it may have thunder and lighting outside you have to turn off all of your electronics. _________________
Joined: Dec 08, 2006 Posts: 2337 Location: Repping the (216) yo
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject:
Whats the fun in that? Leave em on and its like Russian Roultette with your valubles _________________
23r0c001 Xbox-HQ Experienced Xbox Version: 2x v1.6 Modded: Hotswapped Softmod
Joined: Sep 14, 2007 Posts: 141
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject:
my old man had a ball of lightning shoot out of his TV screen during a lightning storm while he was in boy scouts. So, it's not only russian roulette with your electronics, its russian roulette with them and whoever else is in the room!
EDIT: BTW, nice GT hypnotix! I got a shirt with one on it! _________________
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Leave em on and its like Russian Roultette with your valubles
