You were lucky. If you want to stay "Lucky" I suggest you replace the
surge protector(s) as soom as possable considering the Weather reports
for the rest of this week. 
Art Wagner

"Robert N. Eaton" wrote:
> 
> Just got back on line this afternoon after a hectic week.  During the
> thunderstorm Sunday before last my townhouse suffered a near strike (no
> perceptible interval between the flash and the CRACK-BOOM).  Even though
> I had good (?)($36.95) surge protectors on both my home audio system and
> my computer, the stereo amp lit up like a Christmas tree and stopped
> working.  The computer was more subtle.  It just got flakey, froze up
> and wouldn't recognize any key-strokes.  I used the BBS (Big Black
> Switch) to turn it off.  When I tried to reboot the POST ran, but the
> BIOS didn't recognize either of its hard-drives. Even with floppy rescue
> disks I couldn't access the hard-drives.
> 
> Brought it back to P.C. Club (the makers/assemblers) and was told that
> the BIOS had probably become corrupted, due, no doubt, to the extra
> Joules whizzing about during the thunderstorm. They kept it over this
> last week-end and called me this forenoon that they had flashed the BIOS
> and it seemed to be booting correctly. They charged me only $25.00 (Hey!
> It could have been worse.) I brought it home, re-connected everything,
> turned it on, and it booted as if nothing had ever happened.
> 
> Life again is good.
> 
> Bob Eaton
> 
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