I have an old dell xps 15 9550. I have it connected to 2 external monitors, a samsung 32' 4k monitor and an asus 24' 1920x1200 monitor. I use it plugged in almost always. For the last few months before I go to bed, I basically lock my computer and do not turn it off. The reason is once or twice I turn on my laptop in the morning and then it had that dell xps screen and then didn't load or something similar. Then I would hold the power button to power it off and then wait a bit and power it back on and then it would load like normal. However, I didn't want to risk having no laptop while outside the US so I figure I'm just not going to turn off my laptop at all then since I am here.
Earlier today when I was in bed, there was a huge thunderstorm. Where I am located, there are occasional power outages. I do have a power surge protector and it has protected my devices. Now when this happened, I was pretty certain I saw like an electric orange zap near where my laptop/power surge protector is at or it was a chair nearby it where i have electronics there. I am on the bed but I am positive I saw like an orange electric zap like you know how people outside do electric work and you see the orange electricity? Thing is I didn't have my glasses on but I am positive I saw an orange zap. Has anyone here seen a zap like that when a thunderstorm?
Now when this occurred, I kept hearing my laptop making a sound. When I took a look to see what this was... I wasn't even wearing glasses when I was looking at it, I notice it was the four port usb hub connected to my usb port causing it. It seem to make that sound when imagine you are unplugging and plugging it back in. Or when you unplug and plug in say a wired keyboard. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and the sound stopped. Then I went back to bed but I thought something might be wrong with my laptop when this happened. Now my laptop screen did still show the same background when in lock mode so I didn't think about this. My 2 external monitors, I power them off so they were off so I can't tell if anything.
Earlier today when I was in bed, there was a huge thunderstorm. Where I am located, there are occasional power outages. I do have a power surge protector and it has protected my devices. Now when this happened, I was pretty certain I saw like an electric orange zap near where my laptop/power surge protector is at or it was a chair nearby it where i have electronics there. I am on the bed but I am positive I saw like an orange electric zap like you know how people outside do electric work and you see the orange electricity? Thing is I didn't have my glasses on but I am positive I saw an orange zap. Has anyone here seen a zap like that when a thunderstorm?
Now when this occurred, I kept hearing my laptop making a sound. When I took a look to see what this was... I wasn't even wearing glasses when I was looking at it, I notice it was the four port usb hub connected to my usb port causing it. It seem to make that sound when imagine you are unplugging and plugging it back in. Or when you unplug and plug in say a wired keyboard. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and the sound stopped. Then I went back to bed but I thought something might be wrong with my laptop when this happened. Now my laptop screen did still show the same background when in lock mode so I didn't think about this. My 2 external monitors, I power them off so they were off so I can't tell if anything.