Yeah so my house was struck by lightning the other night, two nights ago to be closer to exact. Annnywho, the lightning put a hole in our roof, knocked me down the stairs, demolished my father's pride and joy, the 63" rear projection pioneer elite HDTV, including Reciever, Tivo, Dvd player, and the 5.1 surround sound system, all of which were protected by the top of the line surge protector of doom that must have weighed 50 thousand pounds. or like 30.
So yeah.
it also zapped our wired network in the house, fried our router, destroyed our phone lines, took out a junky clunky pos dell inspiron 8200 and my xbox 360.
And this is the second time our house has been struck.
Anyways I spent all day repairing our network, we bought a new wifi router, N is the **** btw, and the wifi works great but none of our computers except the mackbook on which im writing this could connect through ethernet so no blaringly fast internet for us. N is good but direct is sooo much better.
Well I was rewiring the wires in the walls between my room and the router and successfully got a new ethernet cable run to my imac, only to see that it could not connect to the internet. wtf mates?
So from there I assume the wire i used was made ill by the lightning and get another one and just run it across the hall and into my room from the router, to make sure that this practically brand new cable is cool. Yeah no connection.
Then I realized, it wasnt the cable, it was the imac, and the ethernet cards in all of the computers that were hardwired at the time of the lightning. It fried all of the ehternet cards. God damnit.
That's cool, no biggie, new ethernet cards for tower pcs arent a big deal at all. But the iMac, thats a toughy. So I called the local apple store and ask to speak to a genius, apparently they were all with real customers in store so the guy asked if he could help me.
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I explain the situation and ask if he could chedk to see if they have any ethernet cards for my precious in stock, he says that they do but they will still need to keep it for service for a couple of days, and oh, by the way, i'll have to pay for it, apple care does not cover acts of God. ( Not cool but we have replacement insurance so it could be worse ) OKay whatever, why will it need to stay, apparently the lightning could have damaged the PSU and also potentially the logic board. God Damn.
So I ask for a quote to give to insurance and he asks a genius, apparently its about $100 to get the ethernet card replace, but if the PSU is also damaged, it could be up to $500 and if the logic board went kaput also it could be up to $800; thats not a biggie at all...holy cow.
Now my question to you macrumors is, what is the likelyhood of damage to anything other than the ethernet card if when the lightning struck the iMac was still running fine afterwords and is in pristine condition other than the fact that it won't connect to the internet via a hardline.
Thanks for any response and for bothering to read this obscenely long tale of woe, you have my apologies for any distress to your retina's or corneas, or cerebral functions that are important to living.
Thanks again,
Penguin
So yeah.
it also zapped our wired network in the house, fried our router, destroyed our phone lines, took out a junky clunky pos dell inspiron 8200 and my xbox 360.
And this is the second time our house has been struck.
Anyways I spent all day repairing our network, we bought a new wifi router, N is the **** btw, and the wifi works great but none of our computers except the mackbook on which im writing this could connect through ethernet so no blaringly fast internet for us. N is good but direct is sooo much better.
Well I was rewiring the wires in the walls between my room and the router and successfully got a new ethernet cable run to my imac, only to see that it could not connect to the internet. wtf mates?
So from there I assume the wire i used was made ill by the lightning and get another one and just run it across the hall and into my room from the router, to make sure that this practically brand new cable is cool. Yeah no connection.
Then I realized, it wasnt the cable, it was the imac, and the ethernet cards in all of the computers that were hardwired at the time of the lightning. It fried all of the ehternet cards. God damnit.
That's cool, no biggie, new ethernet cards for tower pcs arent a big deal at all. But the iMac, thats a toughy. So I called the local apple store and ask to speak to a genius, apparently they were all with real customers in store so the guy asked if he could help me.
- If you've made it this far into the post you are now awesomer than anyone who didnt -
I explain the situation and ask if he could chedk to see if they have any ethernet cards for my precious in stock, he says that they do but they will still need to keep it for service for a couple of days, and oh, by the way, i'll have to pay for it, apple care does not cover acts of God. ( Not cool but we have replacement insurance so it could be worse ) OKay whatever, why will it need to stay, apparently the lightning could have damaged the PSU and also potentially the logic board. God Damn.
So I ask for a quote to give to insurance and he asks a genius, apparently its about $100 to get the ethernet card replace, but if the PSU is also damaged, it could be up to $500 and if the logic board went kaput also it could be up to $800; thats not a biggie at all...holy cow.
Now my question to you macrumors is, what is the likelyhood of damage to anything other than the ethernet card if when the lightning struck the iMac was still running fine afterwords and is in pristine condition other than the fact that it won't connect to the internet via a hardline.
Thanks for any response and for bothering to read this obscenely long tale of woe, you have my apologies for any distress to your retina's or corneas, or cerebral functions that are important to living.
Thanks again,
Penguin
