Finally. As in I FINALLY got my home box back on-stream with a new 2.4G P4. The old CPU still works, but can no longer withstand high demand for more than a few minutes. Running FAH for 3 minutes at 100% will cause it to stop processing. Running FAH at 50% demand for five minutes does likewise. So, it’s out, and the 2.4G CPU is in.
All that from a duck bridging a pair of 40kV lines out front. Had I known it wouldl be this much trouble, I’d have at least collected the dead duck, dressed it out and eaten it. That danged bird’s errant flight plan has cost me a $150!
Ah the joys of electronics.
An old roommate was chief engineer for KVTT radio in Dallas, and later a Tv station in Dallas.
He had a lightning strike jump their professional grade lightning arrestor, flow into the equipment room zapping things at random and finally killed an expensive piece of equipment. Nothing else was killed, just weakened.
They were replacing weakened components for months after that. Blew their entire equipment budget in six months.