Apologies For My Delayed Postings

[little_golden]

My computer went crazy.... Since my last post I have had to replace my keyboard, hard drive, motherboard, and power supply.... My files are a mess but I'm slowly reloading and getting things working again. The guy who kept fixing it says it was a power spike ... Does this make sense?

(Again my apologies to those I post with for the delays.)

Smiles

Cindy

 

[MaiusImperium]

Welcome back Cindy.

 

[And 1]

Welcome back,looking foward to posting for our thread.

Regards
And 1

 

[little_golden]

Thank you....

Does anyone know if a spike can wreck so much?

 

[cats]

I was wondering where you were golden. I don't come to the srp often but its very rare that you don't have something in the works. I don't know much about computers, but asumeing your using a laptop it makes since to me. (Lack of a surge protector, all one unit so forth.)

 

[MaiusImperium]

I believe power spikes can indeed fry anything attached to your motherboard. Unless you're using a surge protector. Or your power supply could have died and done the same.

 

[little_golden]

I had one of those power bar things which I thought prevented those electrical spikes. The guy at the store said they were pretty useless and I should have had a backup power supply to regulate the electricity flow. I didn't buy one as I wasn't sure if he was scamming me since it they cost over a hundred dollars.

I think he saw me coming.... I spent a small fortune on repairs.... Yuk!

Smiles

Cindy

 

[MaiusImperium]

Well for what it's worth, I've never had a surge protector...and I've never had a power spike or anything that remotely screwed my motherboard up. Having said that I need to replace my PSU pretty damn soon as I think this one is dying. If I dissapear for a week then my computer got cooked.

 

[bullshot]

My computer went crazy.... Since my last post I have had to replace my keyboard, hard drive, motherboard, and power supply.... My files are a mess but I'm slowly reloading and getting things working again. The guy who kept fixing it says it was a power spike ... Does this make sense?

(Again my apologies to those I post with for the delays.)

Smiles

Cindy

Hi Cindy

If the computer was switched off a spike might take out your power supply but very unlikely to kill the Mobo, disc, and keyboard.

If it was switched on again the power supply would go and with bad luck the Mobo but the disc would only be destroyed if you were actually writing at the precise moment.

Yes all of these things could be killed by a surge but it would have to be big enough so that everything else in the property would also probably be destroyed.

Normally over in the UK the surge that causes problems is a lightening strike on the telephone cables taking out the modem and sometimes the Mobo.