I had the computer completely surge protected... the problem was the phone line wasn't... it came up thru the telephone line, blew out my modem, motherboard, and power supply in one fatal swoop. Now I gotta find a phone line surge protector! :) The good thing to come out of it was that the new system is 10x faster then the old system. A rendering that would have taken 2 days before (eg: Shiny Red Button) only took about 45 minutes now! Wanna talk about FAST! 1.3gig processor sure makes a difference!