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Logic board disaster; I'm probably crazy, but...
Mon, 2006/08/28 - 6:39am — rippoff
Hello, Just got the ol’ iBook back from the shop with a new logic board installed.
The crash happened only a few days after I installed kinkless. Now, I’m pretty sure this is crazy, that software can’t cause a motherboard crash like that, but I’m just writing in to be sure.
You guys don’t think kinkless ate my motherboard, right? I’m itching to get things running again, but also afraid. Done a lot of searching but can’t seem to find anything that asserts conclusively that software like kinkless can or cannot damage a motherboard in this way.
Nobody else has experienced a motherboard crash like this, right? It’s just a coincidence, right?
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The reason nobody says
The reason nobody says specifically that Kinkless GTD won’t break your motherboard is because it’s absurd. It didn’t do it. Promise.
If your logic board failed, either you crapped up your computer something fierce (overheated it drastically or froze it even more drastically), or it was defective from the start. I’m voting for #2.
I first thought this thread
I first thought this thread was a joke of some kind, then realized the original poster was serious.
Seriously, the idea of kGTD causing a logic board failure is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard all month. If any computer were that vulnerable to damage, then PCs simply would not exist. They’d all be failing left and right and no one would ever consider buying one. If kGTD could actually cause a logic board failure, it would still be Apple’s fault, because any computer that can be fried by an applescript would have to be garbage (imagine what computer viruses would be like if we could write software that could destroy hardware — the carnage would be unimaginable).
Even Nik’s suggestions for how to break your logic board are serious longshots. Very few logic boards (also called motherboards by every manufacturer other than Apple) can actually be screwed up by overheating. Any computer that’s worth a damn is designed to shut itself off long before it would get that hot. And “freezing” it? I don’t know if he’s talking about software or temperature, but either way, not likely. The best way to destroy a logic board is a vicious power surge (we’re talking smoke and fire power surge — smaller surges just result in power supply failure usually) or in the case of a laptop, to play too rough with it. By which I mean to flex the body of the laptop enough to cause bits and pieces of the motherboard to break off (which actually happened to a lot of G3 iBooks because Apple didn’t make the laptop housing stiff enough and people’s graphics chips were popping off logic board at the solder points — there was a huge recall and Apple ended putting a metal plate in a lot of these iBooks as a jury rigged solution to try and stop the flexing). Body flex is the primary cause, other than manufacturing defects, of motherboard failure in laptop computers.
The reason you can’t find anything that asserts kGTD’s innocence is because it should be obvious. Until this moment, no one ever thought they had to explain it.
Hey guys, thanks for the
Hey guys, thanks for the reassurances.
Sorry for coming off rather naive; I’ve never had to deal with a broken motherboard before. I tend to put my focus on front-end experience of computing, and if that makes me a little uninformed or ignorant about the gremlins and fairies that light up my monitor, I’m OK with that.
MEP, I had thought to look off of the kinkless forum itself and did a number of google seaches for information about sources of damage to motherboards, but I’m sure I could have looked more deeply.
It didn’t make sense to me that a script could cause that much damage, but It was kind of one of those gutteral fears more than anything else. As The logic board breakdown left me so shaken. I didn’t know what had caused it and I was concerned maybe I had done something wrong.I certainly didn’t want to repeat whatever mistake I would have made.
Still, glad I asked and, again, thanks all for the reassurances.
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