[muglo] Re: a good meeting

I have lost two surge protectors and both were from lighting hits to  
the phone line.  The first time I called the phone company because we  
had no dial tone and no internet, the technician traced the problem  
to the power bar and he said it probably saved our computer.  Two or  
three years ago they buried the phone lines on our road and we have  
not had a problem since.
Gerhard

P.S.  I think I now know why  our G4 iMac wouldn't boot, it seems if  
shut down for an extended period it forgets time and date so it must  
be the battery on the mother board.  Does anyone know if this is  
easily accessible by the user?


On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Doug Bale wrote:

> Good idea, Karl. I've had two lightning strikes. The first time, a  
> surge protector saved everything, but died in the effort. The  
> second time, I had a replacement surge protector that would have  
> saved everything except that I stupidly had the Rogers cable coming  
> straight into the computer, unbuffered; the strike came in on the  
> cable, bypassing the surge protector, and fried the computer,  
> printer, scanner and external drive.
> Nowadays, with the laptop, I just unplug when there's rumbling  
> overhead, and run on the battery. If I need the Internet, Airport  
> lets me have it and still stay isolated from anything that's liable  
> to carry a surge.
> Doug
>
>
>
> Karl Hochmann <k.hochmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Doug,
>
> At this moment a thunderstorm is is tormenting us. I disconnected my
> computer. You scared me.
>
> Karl
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