The electricity in my area rivals that of a third world country. It may be because they haven't cleared the trees from the lines or some other loading problem. In the last week, I've had 6 events according to my UPS. Last summer, a storm fried two of my four PCs and damaged a third. This UPS will hopefully prevent that. Usually, the power only goes out for a second, maybe two and then comes right back on. When it goes out for more than that, it's a good 4 hours.
thundley4, Thor, thanks, we had surge protectors on the computers but they didn't stop the computers from frying in the electrical storm. I had two fry the same night. One was an HP that was a really righteous computer. I paid almost a thousand dollars for it and it had been reduced. The other was a Dell that was almost as good a computer as the HP. Didn't know about the UPS's but I will look into it.
Six months ago about all I could do with a computer is to set it up, if it was new, add programs and hardware. But I have learned a lot in six months, some by trial and error, and some online here and other sites. Thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate it.
Thor, I live in the deep South, only about 100 miles from the Gulf Coast in Mississippi. The HP motherboard was what went bad in it. I tried to find another motherboard and HP didn't even offer them. The Dell I never did figure out what happened to it. The Dell was just over a year old and the HP wasn't even a year old. Both were Duel core, the HP had and Intel processor and the Dell had and Anthlon.
And just before that I had another computer that was about a year and a half old that a got a virus that messed up Windox XP so bad it would not even try to boot up. This was before I started trying to understand computers and I just junked them. Had I known what I know now, I would have reinstalled Windows on the one that got the virus and could possible saved it.