[Shop-talk] Dead PC

[Jim Franklin]

On Aug 15, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Jim Stone wrote:

> I have just returned from a two week vacation and my home PC is completely
> dead.  Even though it is plugged into a surge protector, I unplugged it and
my
> router before I left town, although I did leave the ethernet cable in.
> Everything else in the house seems to be working fine, with the exception of
a
> CO2 dector, which perhaps coincidently now shows ERR on the display.
Still,
> that seems like only a concidence, as the only connection between the PC
and
> the outside world was the ethernet cord.  However, I do know there was at
> least one severe thunderstorm warning for the area while I was gone.

You confirmed that the outlet is working? That got me for an hour after a
storm tripped the GFCI in the garage.