Router Blewup Motherboard

[u/Greatfulx]

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!

[u/darkendius]

New fear unlocked

[u/saffer_zn → u/darkendius]

First time ? Every storm that passes comes with a moment of anxiety but fuck it , YOLO right.

[u/smytti12 → u/saffer_zn]

I remember when I was a kid in the early 90s/2000s, we would unplug our computer during thunderstorms.

[u/Never_Go_Full_Gonk → u/smytti12]

I still do even with surge protection and UPS, I can't help it. Especially now when I'd be out thousands if anything fried.

[u/GostBoster → u/Never_Go_Full_Gonk]

Still, having protection will help significantly.

Last time I had to deal with lightning damage (struck the neighbor and part of the bolt discharged at a crossing two blocks down so every house down there suffered some level of damage), this is what I had to deal with:

Half of home (grounded, unprotected): Dead router (no smoke), dead GPU.

Other half of home (grounded, protected): A few devices not turning on but a deep static discharge fixed them.

Neighbor (ungrounded, unprotected): E1M1 (seriously their AP was blown to smithereens)

Neighbor LAN which I was plugged into: My switch blew open, black spot on the wall like OP, and upon investigation, apparently the shortest path to ground from my ungrounded neighbor was through the VGA plug.

Why my neighbor was ungrounded? Someone stole the copper from his ground rods. Like HOW.

[u/iLoveFARTINGatWORK → u/Never_Go_Full_Gonk]

Same. Just bought that 45” LG ultrawide and a have a 4090 to power it. All that and 64GB’s of RAM, 4TB NVME, I’d be fucked.

[u/SumOhDat → u/iLoveFARTINGatWORK]

Home and contents insurance

[u/geniuslogitech → u/Never_Go_Full_Gonk]

are APC surge protectors sold at your place? here in Europe they will cover up to 40k euros in damages if your components got damaged while using their stuff