PC Support: 5 Ways Your PC Can Combat Extreme Weather Conditions

If you own a personal computer, you'll want to give your PC support and protection against heat, lightening, flooding, storms, and similar. Here are five trusted ways your PC can combat extreme weather conditions...

5 Ways To Provide Your PC Support And Protect Against Extreme Weather Conditions

You might not realize it, but extreme weather conditions can affect the lifespan of your computer, as they can potentially destroy a PC’s hard drive and, consequently, destroy your data.
Below, we will explore the five most effective ways your computer can combat various extreme weather conditions, such as a heat wave, lightening storm or flooding.

PC Support: 5 Ways Your PC Can Combat Extreme Weather Conditions

1) Storage During Heat Wave

Many people are often surprised to learn that significant summer temperatures or heatwaves could affect a PC, as extreme temperatures can cause a computer to overheat. It is, therefore, essential to store a computer and other technologies in a cool, dry location. This will help to extend the PC’s lifespan, so you can enjoy the device for several years into the future.

It’s not just PCs that will require cool, dry storage facilities. Businesses will need to ensure their server hardware has efficient air conditioning to counteract the extreme heat.

2) Power Surges

It is essential you disconnect all technology devices from an electronic source during a thunderstorm or lightning. The summer months can bring strong thunderstorms, which means your computers could fall victim to a power surge or spike.

If you use a PC or server, we strongly recommend investing in a surge protector, which ensures your computer is safe from electricity spikes.

3) Power Outages

Severe weather conditions could also result in short or lengthy power outages. If you want to prevent the impact an electricity outage has on your business performance and productivity levels, we recommend investing in an Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS).

A UPS will provide power to be supplied to multiple important computer systems, and will ensure you can effectively shut down and back-up a system.

4) Water Damage

Extreme weather conditions can significantly damage a computer, such as heavy rainfall, flooding or a blizzard. If your computer does experience water damage, we encourage you to avoid attempting to use, or fix, the damaged device yourself. An experienced IT professional should really repair the media storage, and can offer appropriate PC support services.

Unfortunately, physical issues such as water damage can often lead to hard drive failure so that the PC might be irretrievable. The good news is data retrieval specialists may be able to recover any lost data following a hard drive failure.

5) Physical Damage

Has your PC or similar device been damaged following an earthquake or tornado? Mother Nature can cause havoc to a person’s belongings.

If a computer is damaged physically, you can expect it is probably damaged on the inside, too. Never attempt to embark upon a computer repair following this type of damage, as you may cause more harm than good.

A DIY attempt could indeed hinder the repair or recovery process. This is when you want to seek out computer technical support services.

Best recommendations are to take the damaged device and its components to an experienced IT professional.

PC Support Summary

So, ensure your computer is protected and look for a cool, dry and safe storage space during extreme weather conditions. Also, if your electronic devices experience physical or internal damage, we strongly recommend visiting a data retrieval specialist for a hard drive repair or data retrieval.

2 Replies

By Heather on 4th May, 2017

My house was affected by an electricity surge when there wasn’t even a storm, and everything that wasn’t hooked up to a surge protector got fried! Fortunately, all the important electronics weren’t plugged into the wall. Thanks for the helpful information!

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- By Keri Jaehnig on 4th May, 2017
  
  Heather, Sounds like you had quite an experience, but luckily, not everything was not plugged in! Glad you found this helpful. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, ~Keri
  
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