Power failed due to the storm. What signs indicate a damaged PC?
Power failed due to the storm. What signs indicate a damaged PC?
You're likely fine, damage like that is very quickly noticed. The worst one I've seen recently was from someone that had their computer fried from their cable modem. Lightning hit right where the cable came in, fried the modem, fried the router, fried the ethernet port, m.2 ssd, and one of the memory channels on the memory controller on the cpu, surprisingly the PSU was just fine. Thankfully everything except the CPU was under warranty, so they were replaced, and the user upgraded from a Ryzen 5 3600 to a 5600X. I still have the Ryzen 5 3600, it makes a perfectly acceptable test cpu for motherboards. I cant test dual channel memory, but i can see if a board will post and use it for BIOS upgrades so its not a total waste.
It seems your PC is probably okay. I only have some personal experiences to share, but summer storms can be really intense here—lots of lightning, outages, everything. I've never had a computer get damaged just because the power went out (I always unplug things when it gets too close). Like the picture above, I had a pretty close lightning strike too. It zapped through the Ethernet cables, messing up every network board and making my GPU act weird—still functional but super sensitive to dust. The hardware damage was obvious without being seen physically; the boards wouldn’t show up, and my video kept glitching. No hidden damage afterward, just a real power surge. At least these surges from restoring power aren’t common here.