ummm....lessons learned....I feel for you. When I got my first computer and the house was only wired for two prongs....I got a power strip to plug it into cuz it had 3 prongs. My little brother told me to just get one of those cheater plugs....ya know the ones with three holes on one side and the two prongs on the other.....so , that is what I did....when I went to turn on the computer...YIKES Sparks and flames coming from the power strip which was also a surge protector. Toasted the surge protector...computer was OK....I unplugged it and my nephew got to use my new computer for a month or so until I got the proper wiring in the house.