Lightening fucks your motherboard
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mrmcfister
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Lightening fucks your motherboard
Yep,left it on during the storms yesterday.Motherboard fried so had to buy a new base unit.Be warned friends!!
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Sam Slater
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Re: Lightening fucks your motherboard
I had the same problem last year. An MSI motherboard gave up the ghost after thunderstorms last summer & I had to purchase another. (yes I have a surge protector). Luckily the ram, cpu gpu etc were unaffected.
[i]I used to spend a lot of time criticizing Islam on here in the noughties - but things are much better now.[/i]