[Satan]

Alright, so I took out the parts that were salvageable and built a new(?) computer. I think the hard drive failed. So in the end I only lost the mobo, CPU, and PSU. My hard-drive died as well, but I had 1TB SSD handy. Unfortunately, it's likely I lost all of my data.

This is literally the WORST feeling.

My power supply has shit out on me like 2 times. The worst feeling in the world is having your screen just go blank when you're really into a video game.

The old power supply is still filled with liquid, aha.

@Oni sucks to hear that you lost your parts. Your HDD got affected as well? Sometimes you can recover some files after lightning damage if this is the case.

What's the total cost of damage (if you want to share it), and have you tried contacting the case manufacturer? Maybe they can give you some money or something if you're lucky and they're friendly (I highly doubt it).

The storm didn't cause any damage, as far as I know. It was just the faulty liquid cooling (which I didn't know about until opening the case). It did take my hard-drive, so I did lose all my files.

The warranty information page on their website should have been enough to not buy from them.

[Oni]

Alright, so I took out the parts that were salvageable and built a new(?) computer. I think the hard drive failed. So in the end I only lost the mobo, CPU, and PSU. My hard-drive died as well, but I had 1TB SSD handy. Unfortunately, it's likely I lost all of my data.

This is literally the WORST feeling.

My power supply has shit out on me like 2 times. The worst feeling in the world is having your screen just go blank when you're really into a video game.

The old power supply is still filled with liquid, aha.

@Oni sucks to hear that you lost your parts. Your HDD got affected as well? Sometimes you can recover some files after lightning damage if this is the case.

What's the total cost of damage (if you want to share it), and have you tried contacting the case manufacturer? Maybe they can give you some money or something if you're lucky and they're friendly (I highly doubt it).

The storm didn't cause any damage, as far as I know. It was just the faulty liquid cooling (which I didn't know about until opening the case). It did take my hard-drive, so I did lose all my files.

The warranty information page on their website should have been enough to not buy from them.

They had really great reviews at the time, although I doubt I'll buy cases from any Asians in the future.

[The Professor]

Sometimes protectors aren't enough. Sounds like it tripped something rather than blew something.

[Oni]

This happened quite a while back. Still missing some data from back then.

Sometimes protectors aren't enough. Sounds like it tripped something rather than blew something.

The problem was that the case came with a faulty watercooling unit and liquid dripped into the PSU. Never used watercooling since.

[The Professor]

This happened quite a while back. Still missing some data from back then.

Sometimes protectors aren't enough. Sounds like it tripped something rather than blew something.

The problem was that the case came with a faulty watercooling unit and liquid dripped into the PSU. Never used watercooling since.

Even in that situation, usually when a power supply goes it will sizzle and then just shut off. They are designed w/ kill switched once a certain voltage/heat is met. Sounds like your surge bar blew being that this would be the weakest point in the loop. But if it still doesn't work its probably fried, happens to the best of us. My PSU came with a faulty fan so the fan never works. I just have solid air flow so its good anyway. Moral of the story, its very hard to blow a PSU because they are designed around failures.