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I am quite the noob when it comes to grounding. I saw some surge suppressors on newegg and it has a short wire coming out of it for grounding. Where exactly would you crimp that on to?

Ah, we just signed up for U-Verse, so they changed our phone service as well so you may be right. Anyway, enough thread hijacking! :P What is the correct way to install ethernet surge supressors?

Yeah, every port on the router is dead, the one port on the gateway that connected to the router doesn't work (I can still use the other ports fine, though), and the NICs on my brother's XBOX as well as another PC (both that were completely off during the storm) are also picking up nothing...

Living in Miami, FL we are very prone to lightning storms. Last week I just had a storm fry all the NICs, router, and a number of other things all at once. I was looking into ethernet surge suppressors to prevent this in the future. What's the most efficient way to install it? Here's my...

Since the insurance is going to (hopefully) pay me for the entire computer, I'm going to just buy the new PSU and motherboard first. I'll run memtest at that point to check on the RAM and we'll see how the video card works as well. I don't really want to try the memtest now in it's current state...

So a friend lent me an extra PSU he had laying around. This time the computer booted up completely. I noticed when it got to the windows login screen there were black streaks every where. The streaks disappeared after a second (maybe the video card was just dazed and woke up?). I put in my...

Yeah I already looked it up. My surge protector is with Cyberpower and they do offer a guarantee of up to $150,000. The only thing is that it would only cover my PC. We have two other PCs that were fried, a tv, our router, and a couple other smaller things. Because of all that we're going to...

Alright, hopefully that is the only issue with it. Going to ask around and try to find someone that has a spare to test it out. Thanks for your feedback.

What version of Vista do you have?

So my pc died after a bad storm yesterday. I opened it up and took a whiff and nothing smelled fried so i'm trying to figure out exactly what I need to replace. This is what is happening: When I first got home from work I pushed the power button to boot up my computer. All that happened was...

Just in case anyone is interested, I ended up returning the mobo and exchanging it for a new one. Same model and now everything seems to be working great. I guess it was just a defect with that particular motherboard. Thanks to everyone for the help.

so i went ahead and reseated all the PSU plugs, i reseated the little plugs from the case (the power button, LED's, etc), and even ripped out the mobo and placed it on a sheet of cardboard and ran it from there. still the same friggin problem! :( taking it to work tomorrow to see if the IT...

it seems like once everything shuts down and the fans are on it's safe to just switch it off from the back. i don't get any errors of windows saying it shut down improperly or anything when i do so. flipping the switch off obviously turns the fans off, and when i switch it back on, the fans stay...

No, I have Vista's start menu on "classic." So when I hit shut down I have the list of ways to shut down, and I choose shut down from there. I know there is a common mistake where Vista defaulted the red shut down button in the start menu to make the computer go on stand by, but I am definitely...

thank you for the help, i will see if anyone i know happens to have an extra PSU laying around that I can borrow to test it out.