It is once again spring in central USA. Last night I just sat down at pc and a lighting bolt came out of ceiling light fixture. POP was like a shot gun blast. Their was 3 pc running connected to www via sattlite dish and in a LAN through a router. Kinda funny it only got the motherboard on 1 of the pc's . ( I have pulled the hard drive on it and it is good so as near as I know haven't lost any important data) It had 2 hard drives but most of data on one I checked. It had a gigabyte GA7- VA mother board in it was still running but chipset fan making a lot of noise and graphics gone with Lighting and wont reboot/ w different power supply or graphis card.
All the pc's were behind surge protectors & ups.
So a word of warning BACKUP you may not be as lucky as I.