Hello,
I have an interesting situation with my laptop. I think I unwittingly killed it. It is a Lenovo G500, that I got for a good deal last year. The warranty is just expired. The issue began with an old Power Macintosh 5400 (circa 1996) with files on it I wanted to get off.
I tried networking that computer to my desktop PC using Vmware and a copy of Mac OS X. That did not work, so I had an old PCI Firewire card laying around that I installed in the old mac. I got a firewire to to usb adapter off of Ebay, installed the firewire end into the powered on mac, and as I proceeded to plug the usb end into the Lenovo laptop, the laptop instantly turned black. Which by the way if this was a really stupid idea in the first place, I kind of would like to know the technical reasons why, for educational purposes or for someone else not to make the same mistake I did.
I could not get it to turn on. I took out the battery and tried to to get it to start the AC way but that did not work. No lights. No sound. I took out the ram. Nothing. I pulled the SSD and checked it. The files are intact as is the secondary hard drive installed.
Now with the battery installed and plugged into the wall I get the battery is charging light and if I unplug it that battery charging light goes out, but it still does not turn on. And I mean no fans, lights, nothing.
I took it apart and I do not find any char marks or smell on the motherboard or near the USB port. I have the motherboard out and the computer disassembled now. My guess is that the PCI on the Macintosh 5400 was putting an electric charge out that traveled through my USB in the laptop and cooked the motherboard somewhere or the CPU (I'm guess the 5400 was angry that I woke her up from her deep slumber).
I was wondering what anyone's thoughts were. If they do not think it is the motherboard or the CPU, I am all ears. If it is possibly one or the other, I was wondering what people thought it generally might be, the CPU or the motherboard or both? I didn't know if the USB was a direct electrical path to the CPU or not. Since I spent $400 to buy the laptop, and it was my fault, I would be willing to resurrect the old girl. The SSD if fine. It has WIndows 10 that would probably work on the same replacement motherboard, and I have spare RAM if this laptop's is burnt out. So $200 and change would probably fix this costly mistake if I had to buy a motherboard and CPU.
Thanks
I have an interesting situation with my laptop. I think I unwittingly killed it. It is a Lenovo G500, that I got for a good deal last year. The warranty is just expired. The issue began with an old Power Macintosh 5400 (circa 1996) with files on it I wanted to get off.
I tried networking that computer to my desktop PC using Vmware and a copy of Mac OS X. That did not work, so I had an old PCI Firewire card laying around that I installed in the old mac. I got a firewire to to usb adapter off of Ebay, installed the firewire end into the powered on mac, and as I proceeded to plug the usb end into the Lenovo laptop, the laptop instantly turned black. Which by the way if this was a really stupid idea in the first place, I kind of would like to know the technical reasons why, for educational purposes or for someone else not to make the same mistake I did.
I could not get it to turn on. I took out the battery and tried to to get it to start the AC way but that did not work. No lights. No sound. I took out the ram. Nothing. I pulled the SSD and checked it. The files are intact as is the secondary hard drive installed.
Now with the battery installed and plugged into the wall I get the battery is charging light and if I unplug it that battery charging light goes out, but it still does not turn on. And I mean no fans, lights, nothing.
I took it apart and I do not find any char marks or smell on the motherboard or near the USB port. I have the motherboard out and the computer disassembled now. My guess is that the PCI on the Macintosh 5400 was putting an electric charge out that traveled through my USB in the laptop and cooked the motherboard somewhere or the CPU (I'm guess the 5400 was angry that I woke her up from her deep slumber).
I was wondering what anyone's thoughts were. If they do not think it is the motherboard or the CPU, I am all ears. If it is possibly one or the other, I was wondering what people thought it generally might be, the CPU or the motherboard or both? I didn't know if the USB was a direct electrical path to the CPU or not. Since I spent $400 to buy the laptop, and it was my fault, I would be willing to resurrect the old girl. The SSD if fine. It has WIndows 10 that would probably work on the same replacement motherboard, and I have spare RAM if this laptop's is burnt out. So $200 and change would probably fix this costly mistake if I had to buy a motherboard and CPU.
Thanks
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