What is the point

Nope, that has never happened to me.. so strange! Good luck.. hope you get it fixed!

I don't think this happens very often. It has been several years since I have heard of this happening. Surge protector are made for a reason. I would definitely register that next baby and if it happens again you are in greener pastures. Could have been alot worse I suspect.

I never knew we could recover damages due to a surge protector not doing its job. that is a new one to me also. I have never had any problems with mine as of yet.

I've been on this planet for 48 years and have never even owned a surge protector. And in those 48 years I have NEVER had an electronic device fry because of a power surge. *goes to place a bet on the ponies*

No.. not yet.. :) touch wood. :) But the UPS I am using with this system is the fourth one. :)

Dawny my dear. Get yourself a big UPS. Nothing beats that and i have never heard of anyone pc being fried using one. I had to get one as we had power failures like mad and my screen gave way. Poor thing. At least i got a bigger one now.

WOW no i havent had it happen to me so hope I dont. my puters just seem to fry themselves

We had a power protector go out, but nothing was damaged except the surge protector. We told the store and they said that power protectors have a limit. Luckily all our electricity in the house is grounded as I live in an area where there are frequent lightening storms in the area. And hail storms, etc. $30 is a bit cheap, the one we bought and that was a few years ago was around $60. You get what you paid for. It would also help if you own your place to see if the electricity in the place is grounded then you will not have that problem or ask the landlord.

hi dawn so thats what happened to your poor computer, it was fried. good grief charley brown. I have a surge protector and several times it camin handy when we had a really infrequent electrical storm.So I have never had one malformation like that. we had something similar to a part in our old refrigeratot and the repairs cost us one hundred but the work was guarnteed so whenit happened again the repair was free.

I don't think I had a surge protector the time my computer got fried. There was a severe thunderstorm in NC and my computer stopped working. My brother tried to fix it (he is a computer whiz) but it didn't work so we had to send it in. It turns out that emachines (at least at that time) wouldn't take outside parts. I don't know if the power bar I had was a surge protector or not. Some of them aren't I guess. I never had a problem with that machine after that. When I moved to China a few years later, I left that computer with my brother. That was my first computer and I didn't know anything about surge protectors at that time, but my brother got everything I needed for it except the machine itself. If I ever get another desktop computer, I will look into that. Now that I have a laptop, I don't often worry about such things.

Oh yes. Frequently and no, I never got reimbursed at all by our only electricity company. It happens when the voltage goes crazy.Isn't it awful? I would have thought that the power surge protector would have takeb care of iy but it didn't. If we now have a poweer outage I remove all plugs from outlets and wait untl about ten minutes after light has come back to plug them all in again.

Well, it all depends on how big the spike was. If you want to avoid such things in the future, use a UPS between the PC and the power socket. Because of the heavy electrical and electronics in the UPS, any surge has a greater chance of being suppressed. The output transformer of the UPS also provides a very high level of Isolation, preventing accidental damages. An older way of protection was a deice called CVT, Constant Voltage Transformer. This is an economical option, but, outdated. Check the earth wiring of the electrical wiring of your house as this can also be a reason for the PC damage.

We in India we have what we call voltage stabilisers. Here voltage fluctuates unceasingly and for the pc we have the UPS - uninterrupted power supply which has an inbuilt stabiliser. Since there is load shedding here the UPS stores power that can be used for a short period just to save and put off the pc. Lately they have introduced the home ups which takes care of the power supply of the whole house. With this we can use the pc even though the main supply is off. The Home UPS also has stabilisers which control the inflow of current to the pc. My tv conked out once when the stabiliser of the tv failed all because of voltage fluctuation.

A surge protector??I am not sure what it is but you already explain it. And I don't remember of using one of it and we never experience that before. Anyway, the register part is what we should do everythime ew purchase an electronic things so at least we have the warranty.

this is gonna sound funny-but i use two.one trips the other,and usually stops before the computer. we get frequent blackouts,and you kind of have to.

Obviously your surge protector was on the blink. At least it was just the power source. I need to pick up a few surge protectors. I need one for my fridge and computer. I really should have one on every expensive appliance. By the way, I love your new picture. The shorter, curlier hair looks good on you.

Last month, I went with a friend to Best Buy to help her get a new computer. After the decision was made on which computer to buy, the salesperson suggested a spanking new surge protector. It was about $40 so I said not to buy it. Instead, we went to another store and bought a $16 one. Maybe I should have re-thought this suggestion. Maybe some surge protectors don't really work. Specially $16-ones that does not ask for registration.

It depends on how long have you used it and how many you use on it. I wouldn't use all the plugs. Periodically you should check on wear and tear around the cable. Also, wipe it - well I don't really need to type this. I'm curious - what was the actual problem?

We had our DSL hookup for about 2 weeks and had a power surge. I wasn't on any the computers at that time. The next day I tried to get on the Internet and I couldn't. I told my husband he would need to call and see what was wrong. I would've done it but I had to work. It turned out the modem got fried from the power surge. We also have all of our electronic on surge protectors. I guess sometimes you get a faulty one. We were lucky. They just sent us a new modem at no charge to us. I wondered though, if had this modem for a year would they've been so generous.

hey there is a new connecting code in the market which could resist any and all surge which could possibly occur.They say that you will be given an insurance amount around Rs 100000 as it may cost around Rs 7000. You must try it out.It is worth trying it out .