Long story short:
I took my machine apart on Saturday night for some work and a reformat, and left it running overnight downloading updates and other stuff. I completely forgot to put the LAN cable back in the power strip. I have such bad luck that I woke up mid Sunday in the middle of a massive thunderstorm, and right as I was getting out of bed lightning strikes and I hear a cracking/popping sound around my machine, along with a house-wide voltage drop. My DSL modem got fried, doesn't work. Fortunately, my machine is in one piece and works fine, except for the Ethernet port in which the LAN cable was plugged into from the DSL modem.
The ethernet port is now permanently lit up with both a yellow and an orange light. They remain lit up even after I power down my machine. They only turn off if I flip the PSU switch to shut down current flow to my motherboard. Given my motherboard's manual doesn't have a code for when those two lights are on, I'm guessing that ethernet port is dead and gone for good? It's not showing up on the device manager anymore and plugging a LAN cable in there doesn't do anything. I know this is probably a very dumb and obvious question, but I sort of figured if the port was dead it shouldn't even be displaying those lights.
Interestingly enough, my second machine which was also plugged to the same modem and whose LAN cable is significantly shorter than my main machine's one and isn't plugged into a powerstrip suffered no damage at all.
I took my machine apart on Saturday night for some work and a reformat, and left it running overnight downloading updates and other stuff. I completely forgot to put the LAN cable back in the power strip. I have such bad luck that I woke up mid Sunday in the middle of a massive thunderstorm, and right as I was getting out of bed lightning strikes and I hear a cracking/popping sound around my machine, along with a house-wide voltage drop. My DSL modem got fried, doesn't work. Fortunately, my machine is in one piece and works fine, except for the Ethernet port in which the LAN cable was plugged into from the DSL modem.
The ethernet port is now permanently lit up with both a yellow and an orange light. They remain lit up even after I power down my machine. They only turn off if I flip the PSU switch to shut down current flow to my motherboard. Given my motherboard's manual doesn't have a code for when those two lights are on, I'm guessing that ethernet port is dead and gone for good? It's not showing up on the device manager anymore and plugging a LAN cable in there doesn't do anything. I know this is probably a very dumb and obvious question, but I sort of figured if the port was dead it shouldn't even be displaying those lights.
Interestingly enough, my second machine which was also plugged to the same modem and whose LAN cable is significantly shorter than my main machine's one and isn't plugged into a powerstrip suffered no damage at all.