Got blasted...

Leon Goldstein metapsych at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 18 06:48:21 PST 2008


Tony Alfrey wrote:

> Jerry McBride wrote:
>
>>
>> Yipes... we got hit hard, but the question is, "from where"?
>>
>> How does an 8port switch and two onboard Nic's get toasted and 
>> nothing else is touched?
>
>
> Dark Energy.
>
>
>
Shielding and grounding - lack thereof.  The EMP surge burned out 
everything in its path until its energy was dissipated by ground paths 
from the NIC's.  Consider yourself lucky the EMP didn't fry your 
motherboard.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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