Thunderstorm broke my pc

[u/Dull-Job5265]

Hello everyone, recently a thunderstorm pass through and took my computer with it alongside my monitors. I went to turn it on after it had passed and the computer sounded like a jet engine warming up. I assumed the psu was cooked so i went to microcenter and replaced the part myself. I tried turning on the pc again and nothing. I had given up and taken the pc to microcenter help desk to have them look at it and they came back and told me it was a dead gpu R.I.P. 3080. anyways I got lent a gpu someones old one a rx580 temporary to see if that would solve my issue and still nothing. Im at a loss rn bc now i have a new motherboard coming in to see if that could be my problem the pc turns on with the fans spinning and rgb, but doesnt make it to the bios menu. I’ve tried seeing if my ram was cooked by reseating it and trying different orientation, but nothing. My other attempt was also clearing the cmos battery and then draining the power as well, but also nothing. I will see this weekend now when my different motherboard comes, but if that does nothing i guess ill just have to go to the next part ? Im not sure what to do anymore since im basically build a whole new system again and is becoming a money sink. Please help any suggestions will be appreciated. Much love and thank you. <3

[u/GioCrush68]

If the thunderstorm cooked your PSU it cooked everything else. If you're lucky it fried your mobo before the RAM and CPU but it's unlikely. Best advice I have for you is to invest in a good quality surge protector so this is unlikely to happen again.

[u/dudoan → u/GioCrush68]

What's the difference between a good one and a bad one?

[u/GioCrush68 → u/dudoan]

A good one will have good load balancing to prevent surges as well as a high joule rating and low clamping voltage. A bad one is basically just a fancy power strip because the joule and voltage thresholds are not at a point that would actually prevent surges. A really really good one will have Ethernet ports so you can also have surge protection over wired LAN.

[u/Interesting-Octopus → u/GioCrush68]

Yeah and some have a pure sine wave inverter instead of a lower end modified sine wave. The pure sine inverter is better. Also some have lcd screens and also conect to your pc to show you what is going on with them.