Re: BIOS update??

From: Broomstick (nobody_at_virtually.nowhere)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:58:52 +0700

"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
news:414320b1$0$39669$45beb828@newscene.com...
> Jim Macklin wrote:
>>
>> If you read these newsgroups you will see many
>> reports/requests for help because "my computer won't boot
>> after the storm, etc."
>
> A ten dollar surge protector with a modem circuit is recommeded. Most
> surges that phark a system come in via the phone line to the modem. 9
> out of ten times just the modem gets fried. 1 out of ten times the
> motherboard also goes and the hard drive data gets corrupted, but is
> usually redoable.
>
> Yes if you have the extra bucks get a UPS. Be sure to always protect any
> phone line going to your pc tho as 90% of surge damage is via the phone
> line, and most folks DO NOT have that line protected to their pc.

One good reason for buying a CDMA cell phone and use it as your modem.
I don't know if the surge will flow through your mobo to the usb port and
zap your cell phone.

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