A solar storm would only do that if you are in space.
The high energy particles hit the atmosphere (and to a significantly less extent, magnetosphere). If your computer was getting enough radiation to cause it to start dying, from any source, you'd probably not be very healthy.
The way that solar flares/storms damage electronics is by deforming the earth's magnetic field. This moves the whole field, but only in a broad way. If it's a very serious storm, very, very large conductors such as national power grids will have induced currents, but things smaller than a few km will never generate internal current.
Since there weren't any such induced currents of significant scale since Canada in 2000, and anyway there's tons of defensive devices, I feel very confident that your computer was unaffected by any kind of power surge and is more likely suffering from a manufacturing failure or wear and tear.
Or maybe I just misread some sarcasm.
