Power Spike question

[John McGregor]

Hi Folk,
      I have a question about possible damage from a power spike. I was
at a client's home today and his Win XP computer was erroring out with a
missing DLL message, his printer was dead (as was the wall receptacle
into which the printer was plugged). The computer was surge protected
but the printer was not and the printer was connected to the computer
via a usb cable. Could a power spike from the bad wall receptacle have
taken out the printer and then also affected the computer via the usb
connection?

TIA

John
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