Hi, I am guessing my mobo got fried and I am going to have to replace it, here's what happened.
The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R. I used the computer Sunday night , shut down and went to bed. I always unplug the ac cord from the power supply when I go to bed because we get thunderstorms here in the summer day or night, it's just an extra precaution.
So Monday afternoon I am working on the wife's laptop and i hear some thunder so I start shutting her LT down and before I can get it shut down another strike happens and i hear a "tick" behind me, which is where the box, router, modem, two cordless phones are plugged into.
I think ahh dang i bet my cable modem or router got fried but suprisingly it did not and they are on a surge protector. I have heard this "tick" before and I know this isn't a good sound, that is why I have surge protectors now because I have had modems fried before.
Anyway,so I do get all surge protectors unplugged from the wall outlet and do not think anything about it until later about 10 pm when i go to game some.
I plug the surge protectors back in and the modem, router, phones all boot up and work fine, the wife's LT is fine but my gaming rig is dead as a hammer when i push the on switch.
Remember, at the time of the strike the power cord to the gaming rig was not plugged into ANY power source, the end was draped over a box next to the PS.
I have an antec PS tester so i hooked the original PS up to it and I get a LL reading on the +12v digital readout. According to Antec this is an over or under voltage error. So I figure okay I have another brand new Corsair PS from another computer i was building for the wife I could see if the PS is definetly bad.
I hook the new PS up and push the power button and nothing happens. I hook the antec PS tester up to the wife's brand new PS and i get the same LL reading on the +12v digital readout with it hooked up to the tester and mobo just like the original was hooked up when i tested it.
The wife's PS had never even been powered up until that moment last night (except whatever they did at the factory) so I know it's new and should be good unless it arrived DOA from Newegg.
I have tried a new AC cord, a different plug (spot) on the surge supressor, a plug on a power strip, same results for each, and the modem, router, phones are plugged into the same surge protectors as before and they DO work.
Can a mobo fry thru the Cat 5 connection? At the time of the lightning i had no AC cord to the unit but the ethernet was plugged in and the modem was live.
The only remote sign of power i get on the mobo when i plug the 650w or the 850w PS into the mobo connectors is the amber light flashes about every second on the ethernet port on the back of the mobo, whether the cat 5 cable is plugged in or not.
I plan on unhooking everything except the hard drive and trying 1 stick of RAM at a time tonight but I really do not understand how lightning could have killed anything on the mobo, cpu,ram, HD without AC plugged into the unit, unless it came thru the ethernet?
Any ideas what happened, how to fix the issue, things to try?
Many thanks.
The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R. I used the computer Sunday night , shut down and went to bed. I always unplug the ac cord from the power supply when I go to bed because we get thunderstorms here in the summer day or night, it's just an extra precaution.
So Monday afternoon I am working on the wife's laptop and i hear some thunder so I start shutting her LT down and before I can get it shut down another strike happens and i hear a "tick" behind me, which is where the box, router, modem, two cordless phones are plugged into.
I think ahh dang i bet my cable modem or router got fried but suprisingly it did not and they are on a surge protector. I have heard this "tick" before and I know this isn't a good sound, that is why I have surge protectors now because I have had modems fried before.
Anyway,so I do get all surge protectors unplugged from the wall outlet and do not think anything about it until later about 10 pm when i go to game some.
I plug the surge protectors back in and the modem, router, phones all boot up and work fine, the wife's LT is fine but my gaming rig is dead as a hammer when i push the on switch.
Remember, at the time of the strike the power cord to the gaming rig was not plugged into ANY power source, the end was draped over a box next to the PS.
I have an antec PS tester so i hooked the original PS up to it and I get a LL reading on the +12v digital readout. According to Antec this is an over or under voltage error. So I figure okay I have another brand new Corsair PS from another computer i was building for the wife I could see if the PS is definetly bad.
I hook the new PS up and push the power button and nothing happens. I hook the antec PS tester up to the wife's brand new PS and i get the same LL reading on the +12v digital readout with it hooked up to the tester and mobo just like the original was hooked up when i tested it.
The wife's PS had never even been powered up until that moment last night (except whatever they did at the factory) so I know it's new and should be good unless it arrived DOA from Newegg.
I have tried a new AC cord, a different plug (spot) on the surge supressor, a plug on a power strip, same results for each, and the modem, router, phones are plugged into the same surge protectors as before and they DO work.
Can a mobo fry thru the Cat 5 connection? At the time of the lightning i had no AC cord to the unit but the ethernet was plugged in and the modem was live.
The only remote sign of power i get on the mobo when i plug the 650w or the 850w PS into the mobo connectors is the amber light flashes about every second on the ethernet port on the back of the mobo, whether the cat 5 cable is plugged in or not.
I plan on unhooking everything except the hard drive and trying 1 stick of RAM at a time tonight but I really do not understand how lightning could have killed anything on the mobo, cpu,ram, HD without AC plugged into the unit, unless it came thru the ethernet?
Any ideas what happened, how to fix the issue, things to try?
Many thanks.
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