PatriotCFS Posted August 7, 2011 Posted August 7, 2011 Last weekend we had lighting strike the phone line junction box on the telephone pole that runs to my house. It fried the DSL modem and my receivers for the television (AT&T U-verse). After they fixed the junction box and replaced the modem, one of my computers network adapters stopped working. Everything else is ok with the computer (for the moment) and installing a PCI net card has got it back online... My question i guess is... Is it possible lightning cooked my net adapter but not toasted the rest of my motherboard?
battguano Posted August 9, 2011 Posted August 9, 2011 sure, anythings possible - I'd say if you got away with just losing the network adapter you were lucky. Most, if not all, of the new mobo's have double NIC's; if your's does have you tried the other?
PatriotCFS Posted August 9, 2011 Author Posted August 9, 2011 No, mine does not its an older ASUS P6T. So single net adp. for me :(. Maybe it was a stoke of luck? I dunno... Looking for a new mobo and maybe a new processor now.. may do a slight upgrade if money permits ;)
aceflier Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 I work for a cable company and back when I used to go into houses and work on problems I saw this exact thing happen at least 20 times. Funny enough 18 out of 20 times the customer tried to blame the cable company for the PC/TV/Microwave getting hit by lightning. Glad to see you're not one of them. :) Your pci net adapter should do as well if not better than your onboard lan also. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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