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Originally Posted by TheoX View Post
Also, I want to think this is just my superstition, but this happened right after I got a new very powerful router (a 2.4Ghz N router with 3 X 9dbi antenna) and this occurred right after I fired up that monster, but I want to think this is is just my imagination and that router did not burst an EMP shockwave (played and made some EMP's - small ones - in my life) when it was powered up...
I'm fairly sure your router did not fry your card, the power levels of typical WLAN routers are so small (and the antenna radiation pattern is non-directional) that it cannot affect even sensitive electronics destrutively.

For EMP you need a lot more energy.