The house got hit by lightning (quite a BAM! actually), and we're pretty sure the bolt hit the TV tower and came directly through the ethernet cable and fried both our router and computer. Clearly Mother Nature is savvy enough to avoid the six lightning rods that grace the house and barn....and hit our TV tower and internet dish instead.
With the gracious help of John and Julie, we tore down the old computer piece by piece, and rescued those parts that were not toast. In the end, we had to replace the motherboard, tower case and operating system, but thankfully the hard drive and it's data remained intact.
Back up and running (obviously!), and actually upgraded a little with Windows 7 a decided improvement over Vista. Also added a $9.99 wireless card to the desktop so that we are no longer physically connected to the ethernet.
Curious John and the Swapping of the Hard Drive
The leftover pieces of the old system
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