So here’s a question:
When I left for work Wednesday morning, my PowerMac was working normally, as was my PC laptop/docking station.
During the day, a tech from the cable company re-wired the cable modem lines coming into the house. When I returned home that night, my computers were still running, but the integrated Nic on my PowerMac was dead and the charging unit on the docking station was fried.
Only the PowerMac is wired into the network, and it has 2, count them 2 hubs between it and the cable modem. The docking station isn’t even attached by cable to the network, I use the wireless card in the laptop. Both are connected to the same surge suppressor and UPS, but there’s no evidence that there was any power fluctuation of any kind. The UPS passes all diagnostics and show no log of a problem.
How the heck did this happen?