Modem go boom

This is my Mom’s busted modem. It got into an argument with a thunder storm.

The storm won. See the hole blown out the top of the modem chip?

I put together one of those Shuttle computers for Mom about a year ago. It’s a miniature desktop PCs. Cute little guy.

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Well, somehow — don’t laugh at me, or I swear I’ll stop typing! — I forgot to protect it with a surge protector. They live in Missouri, the middle of tornado alley and all those Midwest storm cells. What in the world was I thinking?

Had to gut the thing: new CPU, memory, motherboard, and… ahem, modem. Thankfully her hard drive was still intact! Oh, and this time a surge protector!


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2 responses to “Modem go boom”

  1. Carl V. Avatar

    We live and learn, don’t we?

  2. Callum Avatar

    The only real danger my PC ever caused me (execpt for all those IE Security issues & M$ eating my soul) was when my modem – for no good reason on a perfectly fine day – started to smell… then burst into plooms of smoke, to my surprse- “I didn’t know MSN could do that”.

    Anyway, Nice little box – I don’t know how pricey components are in the US but Macmini. For everyones sake!?

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