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Old 06-20-2004 | 07:32 PM
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Default RE: a bolt of lightning and a puff of smoke.
That happened to me also with a quite new laptop 2 month old, I sent it in and thanks to DELL it is fixed under warranty.

Motheboard, CPU and modem was cooked. I thonk the lightining came from the tel cable so when you use the surge protector there are some with the phone line protector.
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