jawadams Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Has anyone had hardware failures caused by Mac OS X? I had it dual booting with Win XP and at one point my laptop went to sleep, and then it wouldn't come out of sleep mode. I hard rebooted and it would just hang at the POST. Has anyone had similar problems? I am getting my motherboard replaced under warranty, but I would like to know what caused the problem so I can prevent it from happening again. Specs: Toshiba Satellite A200 FT3 Laptop Windows XP/Leo4All v3 (10.5.2) Intel Centrino Core Duo @ 1.66 GHz 2048 MB RAM 160 GB SATA HDD Intel GMA 965 video (X3100) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donw35 Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Did it overheat? Other than that it might just be a coincidence.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/#findComment-746913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimmer Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 I tried Leo4Allv3, and my Video card stopped working. I thought it was just a hardware failure, but now someone else has had a hardware failure with the same version, raises some questions????!!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/#findComment-746938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekreid Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 The same kind of thing happened to me with an HP laptop. I was using Zephyroth's distro, not Leo4All, so I doubt it has to do with the version. Here's my thread, I asked the same question as you basically. Replies lead me to believe it was pure coincidence, but maybe Leopard does puts more stress on components than I thought. I'm no expert. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/#findComment-747001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie11c Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 The issues some people run into are not linked to any release, more of hardware issues with Leopard. Laptops in general have more issues with heat for example. You can read plenty of threads about it here, please don't accuse anyone of breaking your stuff other than you(we did not install anything on it for you) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/#findComment-747003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekreid Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Eddie11c makes a good point, you have to be careful making suggestions about releases wrecking your stuff. People spend a lot of time on these projects...and noone's forcing anyone to install anything. I know it's frustrating to have to buy new hardware, but stuff breaks, especially when you run operating systems probably not supposed to run on them haha. I wouldn't be suprised if overheating is the cause, I know it was a problem when things went wrong with my notebook. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/#findComment-747029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawadams Posted May 15, 2008 Author Share Posted May 15, 2008 I'm not saying it was this release, I'm saying maybe Mac OS X itself caused a hardware failure due to incompatibility. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/#findComment-747151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahwahman89 Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 My suggestion would be to take the CMOS battery for several minutes out so you reset the motherboard (make sure you discharge the capacitors by pressing the power button). Usually fixes 99% of motherboard hang at POST issues with my 5 rigs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/#findComment-747209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaverageidiot Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 About a year ago, the first time I installed OSx86, I had only been running it on my laptop for about 15 minutes when one of my RAM sticks completely died. I thought it was coincidence but now I'm thinking maybe it wasn't... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/#findComment-747940 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donw35 Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Maybe with OSX the laptop's fan is not running or turning on when the system starts to heat and because the manufactures drivers are not installed no way to know that it’s overheating. I cannot see how a driver or OS can fry a system. If this is happening on laptops then I would think it’s a cooling issue. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/#findComment-748539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawadams Posted May 27, 2008 Author Share Posted May 27, 2008 Just a little update. It seems there was no hard drive damage. If I put OSX to sleep, it will not come out, and then at reboot it will freeze at the splash screen. When I remove the hard drive it doesn't freeze but gets a lot of errors. I then go into the BIOS and reset to factory default. This seems to fix it. I put the hard drive back in and then I'm all set. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/#findComment-759971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 Just as a note, I've had several occurrences where doing something odd to the bootsector of the harddrive cuases POST to hang, giving the impresssion of a dead machine. in each case disconnecting the harddrive & resetting fixes the issue, followed, naturally, by doing something more sensible on that drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/104881-did-leo4all-fry-my-motherboard/#findComment-759981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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