pratyush997
Inactive
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Ethernet Port of laptop fried. Any alternatives?
btw i use laptop..and yes i had switched the button off and yes thunderstorm can overcome the resistance of the plug and can pass through even if the switch is off..i googled and it has happened to me. It is not like i dunno whats happening..cmon..I am not that dumb
Gollum
Collector
Got a replacement for my wireless router..Today also thunderstorm started..so I switched off the switch..but forgot to pull the plug.within few seconds
sme shitty thunderstorm hit near my place and I lost my 2TB hard disk..new replaced wireless router.. JBL speakers and all USB ports,HDMI,firewire,memory card slot of my lappy but dunno how motherboard survived and laptop is working fine!!!
Tell me if it is not my bad luck!
Had collected so many stuffs on that 2TB HDD..lost everything within a second. btw all the plugs were connected to 2 surge protectors..but still they couldnt protect them
wow talk about bad luck.
If you laptop is within warranty then call HP after a week and say it happened today morning.
damn couldnt sleep last night..can we retrieve hard drive contents? hard drive is spinning but no computer is recognising it
is it a USB HDD that worked well with your notebook?
if so then you can try opening the case and get the bare HDD out. Chances are you might be able to connect the HDD to a normal desktop sata cable and still be able to use the HDD
laptop is not under warranty..and I gave the HDD to seagate service center for replacement..i thought to open it up but thought it might void the warranty..now i wish i should've tried atleast..
gagan_kumar
Wise Old Owl
it happened with my television through the cable connection while i was on leavebtw i use laptop..and yes i had switched the button off and yes thunderstorm can overcome the resistance of the plug and can pass through even if the switch is off..i googled and it has happened to me. It is not like i dunno whats happening..cmon..I am not that dumb
u know u could have still recovered imp data......... if it was not fried
yea...well i asked a hard disk repair guy and he said 5k for 1tb of recovery if possible..i showed my middle finger and came off..
pratyush997
Inactive
^ LOL, That's really expensive :/
Nerevarine
Incarnate
forget the data and move on..
Use cloud backup if you have the broadband
Use cloud backup if you have the broadband
forget the data and move on..
Use cloud backup if you have the broadband
bought broadband for that only
..2 days of broadband ethernet port fried..and 4th day rest all!Either this broadband or Asus product was "Shani" for me i guess
Anyways whats gone is gone..ordered belkin gold surge protector today...hopefully will get a new hard disk..speaker repair will cost alot..too much expenses this week man!
gagan_kumar
Wise Old Owl
no dude
try connecting via usb
maybe it will work
try connecting via usb
maybe it will work
OMG OMG OMG....usb ports on my lappy suddenly began to work!!! I have no clue how it happened..How is it possible? seriously!!
I have windows 8 and linux...i normally use windows..but after this incident was using linux and now rebooted to windows and it was working!! I have no idea how it happened...wow...miracle?
saved me some money!! might be temporary..but it proves that they are not fried..even if they were dunno how they came back to life..i did practically everything..
gagan_kumar
Wise Old Owl
c i told u it will work XD
c i told u it will work XD
lol..ethernet via usb doesnt work.. i mean loose connection most of the time..but i just plugged in my wireless mouse receiver and and saw cursor moved a lil...my heart skipped a beat then saw it working...Seriously how is it possible? scientifically? loose connection in main board? or deep sleep ?
if usb can work then ethernet too..in ethernet port orange like constantly glows..no matter what..that means there is current in it..and even windows and linux recognizes the LAN...
At this point, understand a path that surge took from cloud to earth. If a surge is incoming on one wire (ie AC electric), then it was also outgoing via some other wire (ie ethernet). If both an incoming and outgoing paths do not exist, then no surge exists. Any damaged part must have both that incoming and outgoing path. An concept we all learned in elementary school science.
Some parts can be in that path and not be damaged. Understand how damage happens. A current is flowing from the cloud to distant earthborne charges. Current is everywhere in that path, simultaneously. Only one or some items in that path fail. What was the path? And what was in that path?
Second, your problems are why better computer manufacturers provide comprehensive hardware diagnostics for free. An OS does everything possible to ignore and work around failures. Sometimes, things that appear to be good are defective. And sometimes things that appear defective are good. Diagnostics mean hardware is identified; without confusion created by the OS.
Third, routine is to have even direct lightning strikes without damage. That was well understood even 100 years ago. Demonstrated 23 times annually atop the Empire State Building. And 40 times annually atop the WTC. Munitions dumps with direct strikes and no explosion. Your telco CO's $multimillion switching computer, connected to wires all over town, suffers about 100 surges with each storm. How often is your town without service for four days after a thunderstorm? Never? Because well proven protection also costs less money. And is rarely known by so many only informed by retail advertising, hearsay, or speculation.
You should also be installing the well proven solution so that protection even standard in ethernet ports (ie thousands of volts) is not overwhelmed by a rare and destructive transient.
An open power switch is nothing but a direct connection from a destructive surge into electronics. Even unplugging is an extremely unreliable solution.
What was the incoming and the other outgoing path via your computer? At this point, you should have a pretty good idea.
One final point. Damage is often on the outgoing surge path. Many use speculation to assume a damaged port must be an incoming path. Remember, you are dealing with electricity. That means both an incoming and another outgoing path existed to have damage. Protectors that somehow magically stop or absorb energy are only for surges that typically cause no damage. They are why so many 'assume' protection from direct strikes is not possible. Know why you have damage AND learn how to avert future damage. Because protection even from directly lightning strikes typically costs about $1 per protected appliance. But requires information I have not seen posted here.
tried that already...still only orange light glows..but windows still says device working properly..From what I learned online is that NIC has brain and a ear for listening to packets...but the problem is brain cant hear anything even when sound is coming..now i dunno how to solve this problem..
Gollum
Collector
tried updating the BIOS along with uninstalling the device from device manager. Are you sure the ethernet port on the other end is okay?[router]
i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the device..no luck and router is working just fine on other laptops..
BIOS which i have is the latest one...nothing was released after that...
Again, that confusion was defined by this sentence:
More details. NIC is a computer. A motherboard computer can talk to that NIC computer. A conversation means everything is OK - to the OS. But damage can exist between the NIC computer and ethernet cable. An NIC computer only knows what it sees: thinks no ethernet cable is connected.
Now, most ethernet NICs will tell you that and not the OS. A light exists on an NIC and on the router. When an NIC computer talks to the router computer, then lights on both units illuminate to report a good conversation - only to you. What do those lights report?
Motherboard BIOS is clearly irrelevant to all that. BIOS is a program that runs when the OS first boots. The OS then finds NICs, loads its own NIC drivers, and moves on without the BIOS.
What happens if a BIOS looks for the NIC during power up? BIOS also only sees an NIC computer; just like the OS also saw that NIC computer.
Meanwhile, what is and is not potentially damaged? What was in an incoming and outgoing surge path? That is necessary to avert future damage. And to also identify what may have been overstressed; may fail a month later.
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gagan_kumar
Wise Old Owl
what i meant was to try connecting hard disk via usb to backup