Thunder and lightning

Guess I should count myself lucky, but a passing thunderstorm this morning appears to have fried my main business PC's USB controller. How this happened is a bit of a mystery, as everything else in the network seems OK and there was no USB device connected to any external wires of any sort.

Time to go buy a USB PCI card, I guess.

PS Realized I had a spare USB adaptor card in one of the other household computers; swapped it in and all is OK (remembering to disable the fried onboard controller in the startup BIOS settings screen). Cheapie replacement USB card for the other computer is on its way, just under $11 including shipping from MonoPrice.com.

Posted by David on May 19, 2006 9:44 AM