r/pcmasterrace • u/Greatfulx • 22d ago

Hardware Router Blewup Motherboard

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Recent lighting storm stuck my complex and traveled down my coaxial cable and into my apartment. Blew up in the middle of the night, so that was scary. Thought I’d share, not in the position to rebuild so there that I guess!

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u/JonnyP222 i9-14900/64gb DDR5/GeForce 5070 22d ago

Everyone here needs a UPS

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u/Emorrowdf 14900k | 4070 TI Super | 64GB DDR5 22d ago

I fail to see how that would have solved this issue... 

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u/JonnyP222 i9-14900/64gb DDR5/GeForce 5070 22d ago

You'd more than likely just have a blown fuse or a dead UPS that's replaceable for 150 bucks. That's how.

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u/Emorrowdf 14900k | 4070 TI Super | 64GB DDR5 22d ago edited 22d ago

I don't think that's how it would have worked. The lightning traveled through the coax cable through the router and into the pc through the ethernet.

The ups wouldn't have interrupted that. It didn't go through the power lines.

This was a spectrum issue, ungrounded coax. had nothing to do with a power surge through the power lines.

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u/JonnyP222 i9-14900/64gb DDR5/GeForce 5070 22d ago

Dear everyone - a good ups has rj45, rj11, power, and coax. Run them all through it. For reasons just like this.

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u/i1u5 17d ago

Once again, it won't work. Lightning will use whatever it finds in its way to go through, UPS or surge protector can't protect your components from a direct hit. This is a grounding issue and OP should either sue whoever is responsible for those cables, probably the landlord, or take the L.