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Post by reddrag0n on Aug 5, 2006 17:51:41 GMT
Yep, i pulled the USB wireless lan out of my mac to take it on the road, and when i got to plug it into the pc laptop i was using, no go. I somehow fried a $15 hunk of junk. I just got back home, put it back into my mac and nothing. little dongle is dead. Now i have to buy a D-Link.
All i had to say was "oops"
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Post by aquamac on Aug 5, 2006 18:50:31 GMT
So did the PC laptop fry the dongle? Bummer!
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Post by reddrag0n on Aug 5, 2006 19:45:27 GMT
no, i think it fried anywhere from me pulling out of the mac to installing it on the pc. I think it fried somewhere inbetween.
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Post by aquamac on Aug 5, 2006 22:38:30 GMT
Well,
My sons windows P4 3.06 just died. It will boot every once in 20 attempts then crash when it hits the desktop. Firstly the onboard lan socket died (when we were on holiday-somehow) so I stuck in a pci card that worked for a few days. Then inspite of 3 new batteries, the bios resets itself everytime you switch off. But it has had some serious gaming use for 2 years. Shame as it was pretty crash free!! The point I am trying to make is that, actually I'm not sure what point I am trying to make, I basically think PC's use pretty cheap components! I can already see him eyeing up winmac, well he can keep his hands off it! Sheesh, and there was me trying to save some money this month.
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Post by rampancy on Aug 6, 2006 1:37:31 GMT
Might it have been an overheating issue?
I noticed one time my USB bluetooth dongle stopped working, and I eventually realized that it was because the USB 2.0 PCI card and its internal ports were right beside the video card and processor - the dongle felt very hot to the touch when I powered the machine down.
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