weirdest hardware problem(s) ever!

[lowfatbaconboy]

Ok so the aftermath....5 dead g4s and 5 dead flat panel monitors

if you take a good computer and good monitor...plug the good monitor into the original bad computer the fan would twitch and you couldn't turn it on at all....unplug the monitor and it would boot (and if you put a vga monitor on it ....it would give you a white screen)

so then take the bad monitor plug it back into the good computer...all the sudden same problem occurs with the good computer that was happening with the original bad computer....now if you swap out the video card in the previously good computer and plug in a new working monitor....it screw that one up

it is some sort of weird chain reaction power problem im guessing.....

i have never freak'n seen this or heard of it before in my life

(and no i don't need help with this ......we just RMAed them to apple so thats why its not in the tech support or any hardware forums)

PS i bet this wouldn't happen what so ever if apple didn't run power through their monitor cables (thus making hot swapping very bad if anyone ever does that)


cliff notes: chain reaction hardware problem that messed up a lot of computers

 

[yukichigai]

Not knowing much about Apples I can't say for sure, but I would suspect it might be some kind of GPU-targetted virus. It's usually impossible to make BIOS/etc. viruses for PC that are effective as there is a great variety of hardware in PCs. Apples however are fairly uniform. If this was a specifically written virus it could theoretically (maybe, I dunno) spread between flat panel and video card. What kind of flat panels were these? Apple brand monitors?

 

[notfred]

I'd put money on it being a power issue rather than a bios/firmware problem.

 

[beer]

voltage/current regulation circuitry is busted.

 

[halik]

it's probably something with the ADC plug - the apple connector has 12v power leads on it too to power the monitor. I'd be willing to bet something got fried along the power traces


edit: oh yeah i guess we came to the same conclusion

 

[bleeb]

Originally posted by: beer
voltage/current regulation circuitry is busted.

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

they are apple flat panels (studio displays)

also when u plug in a busted monitor and computer the fans twitch or slightly spin stop sping stop
and the motherboard light flashes (on a working one its just solid on)

and if ya boot a bad one with no monitor the motherboard light isn't on at all

 

[Papagayo]

Originally posted by: lowfatbaconboy
they are apple flat panels (studio displays)

also when u plug in a busted monitor and computer the fans twitch or slightly spin stop sping stop
and the motherboard light flashes (on a working one its just solid on)

and if ya boot a bad one with no monitor the motherboard light isn't on at all

It's a new virus that's been going around in Apple world...

Find files called:
applesucks.scr, g4istrash.bat, and kissmyass.exe
and delete them.

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

Originally posted by: Papagayo

Originally posted by: lowfatbaconboy
they are apple flat panels (studio displays)

also when u plug in a busted monitor and computer the fans twitch or slightly spin stop sping stop
and the motherboard light flashes (on a working one its just solid on)

and if ya boot a bad one with no monitor the motherboard light isn't on at all

It's a new virus that's been going around in Apple world...

Find files called:
applesucks.scr, g4istrash.bat, and kissmyass.exe
and delete them.

edit: also are there even bioses on flat panel apple monitors...i know they have EPROM chips but u can't exactly infect those

 

[cricky]

Someone's sarcasm meter is broken...

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

yea its in for repairs.....
i broke it last week....got overloaded