MY BACON IS SAVED!

[Mooshi]

Boys and girls, ALWAYS make sure your system is connected to a surge protector or beefy UPS. 

 

 

Around 7:30am I was woken up to a loud buzz popping sound from outside, the unmistakable sound of lightning striking a transformer! After what felt like years going through the run around with automated "help", finally go ahold of a rep from the power company. We were told that they'd estimate things getting fixed around 5pm..OH NOES BATMAN, I cried mentally.

 

Fast forward to just before 3:30pm and suddenly the air con roars back to life as does the cable modem. When I went to fire the system on..nothing. Not a single drop of awesome to be had. Luckily, I'm not the type who likes wasting hundred dollar bills to take my system to repair shops only to sit around for a week before someone actually looks at it. A simple clear cmos and reconfiging settings in the bios made everything A-okay!

[tek inpektor]

-1

No BACON.

[Ringtail Jax]

Good job smart one (In a good way)

[Guest Kloaked]

-1

No BACON.

 

Was expecting bacon too. 2/10

[Mooshi]

-1

No BACON.

 

Was expecting bacon too. 2/10

 

 

[tek inpektor]

 

Get on my level.

 

[helping]

 

just from looking at that i can hear my arteries squealing

[NewAndreas]

Happy to have a UPS! 

[Andi]

don't you have your power cables under ground? And...why the hell would a transformer not be grounded and protected by a lightning rod?

[ObeseWalrus]

If you live in developed countries like Denmark then you know that wires are under ground and the metal lamp posts are good lightening rods. 

[Charger]

Boys and girls, ALWAYS make sure your system is connected to a surge protector or beefy UPS. 

 

 

Around 7:30am I was woken up to a loud buzz popping sound from outside, the unmistakable sound of lightning striking a transformer! After what felt like years going through the run around with automated "help", finally go ahold of a rep from the power company. We were told that they'd estimate things getting fixed around 5pm..OH NOES BATMAN, I cried mentally.

 

Fast forward to just before 3:30pm and suddenly the air con roars back to life as does the cable modem. When I went to fire the system on..nothing. Not a single drop of awesome to be had. Luckily, I'm not the type who likes wasting hundred dollar bills to take my system to repair shops only to sit around for a week before someone actually looks at it. A simple clear cmos and reconfiging settings in the bios made everything A-okay!

been there done that but with out the lightning just a few blown transformers. One time it managed to  fry a cable box through the cable line and fry the hdmi ports on one of our TVs