[ltp] did a storm grill my thinkpad ?

[Eric Van Buggenhaut]

At night there was a storm here, AC power was interrupted several 
times and my T42 was connected to AC. I left the laptop on when I went 
to bed, it was downloading an iso file.

When I woke up this morning, the screen was frozen, no mouse or 
keyboard movement. I turned it off then on and the screen is dead 
blank. The IBM logo doesn't even show up. I quit the CD drive, the 
extra memory, the hard disk but it didn't help.

Can it be that my motherboard was burnt by some power overcharge ? 
Isn't there any fuse to protect the equipment ? I also noticed that 2 
ports of my ADSL modem stopped working too...

Is there a way I can buy a cheaper motherboard than those of IBM ?

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Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT
Eric.VanBuggenhaut@AdValvas.be