This probably had nothing to do with it, but it's something most people aren't aware of. If you have your computer on a surger protector, it's still not safe from a meltdown of components due to a power surge. This is because of power sags (the opposite of spikes). When the electrical voltage to a computer power supply is reduced due to a sag, the power supply's components overwork to compensate and in a sense creates it's on spikes throughout the computer system. Most of the time this goes unnotice, but where I work the power isn't too steady and we seem to have a problem every 3 or 4 months. The worse we had was everything but the processor burning out in one computer. Typically we'll lose hard drives and of course the power supply which melts. The biggest cause of these problems is the turning on of large mechanical units or large banks of florescent light fixtures.
So, if you want complete protection from the power, you'd have to get a UPS instead of a surge protector.
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