I've had weekends like that. After Lightning hit at tree 6 feet away from my home office/shop, I wound up replacing all electronics over then next 2 weeks. EMP from a near hit like that can make a few thousand volts appear across network connections. For some reason, probably physics related, most computer gear doesn't like 2kV incoming over the ethernet ports.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Scott Castaline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 11/21/2010 02:13 PM, Trey Sizemore wrote:<br>
> Can anyone point me to a local source to get a 30" LCD monitor. I know<br>
> Apple stores have them, but looking for something cheaper.<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>You could try MicroCenter, I had just bought a Viewsonic 22" the other<br>
day and saw what appeared to be significantly larger than the 26" units<br>
on display. I did not really check them out as they definitely were out<br>
of my price range. This weekend turned out to be a rather expensive one<br>
for me after my 19" LCD met an untimely death from a projectile missile<br>
or missile projectile.<br>
<br>
Brought home the new monitor and hooked it marveling at the brightness<br>
and clarity of it while booting. It got to the login and went blank, a<br>
second later the system rebooted, got half way through the boot and went<br>
dead. It would not power up so I started unplugging stuff and trying to<br>
power up to rule out the MoBo, when there was aloud pop and flash coming<br>
from the bank of electolytics on the MoBo immediately emitting the<br>
notorious odor of blown caps. At which time my wife stated that if I<br>
wanted her to leave the room I didn't have to stink her out.<br>
<br>
Took the system apart and the board stunk really bad and the MPU chip<br>
looked scorched as well, so back to MicroCenter we went. New ASUS<br>
M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 along with AMD Phenom II 965 X4 and 4GB RAM. Got home<br>
put it all together and still dead. Next morning back to MicroCenter and<br>
got a 600Watt PSU (Corsair) and a PSU tester and a SATA3 1TB HDD.<br>
Apparently the MoBo took out the old PSU when it died.<br>
<br>
Now all is well except my bank account. Sorry for going off track but my<br>
point is I beleive that there may have been a couple of 30" panels there<br>
at MicroCenter in Duluth.<br>
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