Pc during thunderstorm myth?

[xDylanio]

A little backstory of my city. The weather is bipolar. Yes some of you might say that is the case with you. It may be, but hopefully not. Anyways today I heard a few thunder during the evening. Fast forward to 10 pm or so and bam everything in my house went off. A few minutes later it came back. But what got me thinking is, can you hurt your desktop by using it during a thunderstorm? Like having it abruptly shutdown? 

[SoreRaito]

There is a possibility that your PSU could be dead, happend to me once but nothing more was damaged.

[Jurrunio]

If you have a good power supply, you won't hurt the desktop since it's the PSU taking the hit. It's best not to use a PC powered by electricity in the power grid during a thunderstorm if it isn't stable.

[jonwong966]

If you have a surge protector, it shouldn't do any harm. But as for components, they should have an anti-power surge feature where it protects from these certain situations. Worst case scenario, it fried a psu.  

[PokeITSolutions]

Greetings

 

grab a small UPS for yourself I would recomend , found that that when spikes do happen its cheaper to replace then the PSU of my PC as well with the little extra battery life it gives I can safely shut down my PC when the power goes out .

[Simon771]

PC shouldn't get any dammage by unexpected shutdown.

 

But if there is huge power spike ... it can do a lot of harm. If you are lucky, PSU will protect yur components and will fry itslef only.

It's also possible that PSU can't protect your components, and everything gets destroyed. 

 

But that happens very rarely. 

[Tech_Dreamer]

the usual basic rundown for protecting / general setup  for a safe environment is direct wall or properly earthed 3pin surge protection > UPS > Good PSU in this system damage would be minimal through power surge coming through your power outlet ,

 

if your PC is directly plugged to the wall something then something like a power surge or brownouts can cause the PSU to fail or in most case would end with that but it can fry your mother board & connected components , but beyond that local brownouts would damage your motherboard in the lng run as i've experienced having a shitty as$ motherboard .