>motherfucking storm >surge happens >turn on computer

>>60463589
>Not using whole house surge protection
>Not at least unplugging your shit

You deserve it cuck.

>>60463589
kek, thjs is what happens when you can't afford a router

>>60464275
I have a router, the motherfucker is alive and well

>>60464493
then your router is so cheap that it doesn't have a surge protection if it singlehandedly forwarded the thunderstrike to your pc

>port forwarding thunderstrikes

>>60464493
How long is the ethernet cable?
Are you if a different building/does the cable go outside at any point?
Is/was the cable coiled up at some point.

it happened the same to me, storm then ethernet fucked up. I just bought an USB LAN card and fixed it. It was like 1 year ago and mobo still alive :D

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>>60464493
> router passes through a 50,000A + current unharmed

I find this exceptionally hard to believe

>>60464633
>firewire

>>60464723
Thunderbolt™

>>60464705
Maybe its not the ampreres that kill you its the volts

>>60464705
> he's never heard of port forwarding

>>60464510
Thunder doesn't strike, dipshit.

>>60463589
get an APC surge protector

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>>60464928
kek

>>60464705
Actually, its a exclusive route from my ISP, they started to make their own routers when they got FTTH everywhere

>>60463589
Shut your machine off. Unplug it and then hold the power button down for several seconds, if there's a status light on the motherboard, watch for it to go out. This is called draining the flea power. Power it back up and see if you're back in business.
Check BIOS too to make sure the device is still enabled and didn't get switched off due to a surge.

>>60463589
AMD mobo?
If so then no wonder

>>60468165
Intel, I hope this is why ONLY the lan died

>>60468669
If draining the flea power and checking your BIOS settings doesn't work. Try resetting the BIOS after draining the flea power again.

>>60469926
Well I will backup my OC settings and reset the bios to see what happens, the fucking lan light is yellow

>>60469952
Try draining the flea power first if you haven't. It's how you do a full hardware reset normally.

>>60470018
I tried I tried

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>>60464928

>>60470018
Well bios reset did nothig, thats nice I guess since I already ordered the pci card and I would feel like a retard if it was fixed

>>60463589
Cool picture bro

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3320125/lan-port-burnt-boot.html

>>60470325
Its obviously a fucking google images example, I'm not going to take away my MOBO to take a pic of it and start a thread, do you have brain issues or what

>>60464877
Idiot.

>>60467381
Do you just so happen to live in Madrid? Was it this morning's storm?

>>60470597
Yes

>>60470610
I take it you live somewhere around Villaverde, then. I could give you a free PCI NIC if you want.

>>60464657
>have coiled cable
>mfw a lightening bolt goes though the fucking coil
i-is this how you catch a bolt?

>>60470642
Already got one from pccomponentes, thank yoo anyways

>>60470668
>Buying from PCComponentes when you live near the one and only Fengfeng Zheng
Calle De La Aladierna 13, go pay him a visit. Ask him for used parts if you ever need anything, he's got a shitload.
Tell him Álvaro sent you.

>>60470642
That is the worst bait rape attempt I have witnessed

>>60470765
I was actually going to give him an old PCI-X Broadcom card I have laying around here since forever ago. I might have said it with the intention of making a local friend for the first time in my life, too. God, I'm so fucking lonely.

>>60470258
At least NIC's are pretty cheap. Get a nice Intel I350 if you have the $$$.

>>60470894
I got some TP-LINK TG-3269 for 14€ because chep and 24h home delivery

I'm running with a fucking card made for windows NT ONLY in 1996 with some weird ruskie modified drivers right now and my latency is still 2ms in speed test and still 30 in games so literally the same as before, the downside is this fucking card unable to go over 7mb/s

>>60470872
I don't live near you anyways, Navacerrada, the storm was so motherfucking stronk here that my headphones started buzzing even when the lights was out

>>60470986
>Navacerrada
Comfy af
The narrow gauge Cercanías line is quite neato. Makes it feel like a Swiss town.

>Not using proper surge protection

You asked for this.

>>60470986
>headphones started buzzing even when the lights was out
I'll take the chance to ask this to /g/:

Is it considerably dangerous to wear headphones during a thunderstorm? Considering they're indirectly connected to power cables.

>>60463589
Surge protection is cheap anon, and unplugging your electronics from sockets are easy to do when you know a storms a brewing.

Just rma what you can, and invest in a surge protector. Lesson learned.

>>60472151
Literally nothing can stop a lightning strike once it hits. The ONLY effective solution is preventing the lightning from striking in the first place.
No amount of "surge protector" can stop a lightning strike.

>>60473875
I believe an online UPS will stop it at the cost of its life.

>>60473875
Wasn't there something about tying an overhand knot in your power cord which would cause the voltage to induce a strong magnetic field in the cord during a strike and blow the cord apart.