Power Spike question

[Tyler Aviss]

Even without the surge hitting the box itself, depending on what it
was doing during the time of the surge the sudden power-loss may have
caused corruption on the hard-drive as well.

Power surges are funny things though. I had a client whom had the
transformer near his house hit by lightning. It fried his fridge,
kills the CMOS battery on his computer and likewise the CD-ROM drive,
but other than that the machine ran fine once the battery was
replaced...

On 8/13/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 07:53:41PM -0400, John McGregor wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Certainly sounds possible.
>
> In the past I have seen windows corrupt itself due to the system being
> unstable caused by a cheap crap power supply.  After a better power
> supply was installed and windows was reinstalled from scratch, it was
> actually quite reliable.  Of course a power surge could have knocked the
> power supply funny which could then cause all sorts of problems too.
>
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> Len Sorensen
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