How do you keep lightning from hitting a computer?

The one that I was looking for help with a while back got back running and then the lightning got it about 2 days later.

He bought a new Dell had it a week, lightning hit it last night, he said the dell dude told him the power supply and possibly the MB was toast.

Any thing to help keep this from happening again.

 

Only thing you can do is during bad weather, shut it down, and unplug it from the A/C and the phone line. Other than that, he could put a lightning ground system in his house, but it would be pretty ugly.

 

I run surge protectors on everything I got. I had a lightning strike kill one of my DSL modems and the motherboard in this laptop, did it through the phone line, even though I had the power cord plugged into the surge protector.

 

disconnect everything going to it
and pray


...zap!

 

Get a REALLY GOOD surge protector, one with connections for both the ac and the internet cables, and when you KNOW it is storming nearby, you STILL unplug the pc from BOTH the ac and the internet cable, and the phone line if you use that.

Methinks that several people all just gave you a similiar answer, all at about the same time...

 

i just use a surge protector. my insurance covers damage from electricity surges.

these storms are good tonight. Ive already lost power 3 times.

 

the stuff your getting is headed this way!!

i love it

...zap!

 

sure did cool it down outside. it must have dropped the temp 20*

 

Don't underestimate the phone line either. I thought I was good to go with just the AC connection; yeah, right.

 

We had a few nice ones move through this morning about 4:00am and then again this evening maybe 8:00 or so.

I will give him the info thanks.

 

Surge protectors WILL NOT stop the amount of current from a lightning strike hitting a power of phone line. They do small power fluctuations from the power company, though. If you have the money, you could in an isolation transformer for the A/C, and run a fiber modem. But you're talking $$$$$$$.

 

Well, I figure if a lightning strike does this computer in again, the surge protector I got has a guarantee for like $10,000 worth of equipment - I'll be holding them to that if the fit hits the shan.

 

I have a surge protector that the computer and modem are plugged into, including the Cat5 cables. Still, whenever it starts to lighting around here, I cut the power to the surge protector so there's no juice going to the computer at all. A friends computer got fried by power surges even though the computer was off and it was plugged into a surge protector so I don't trust them and just turn them off.

 

Yup....all weekend, huh Zap. I love it too.