Help! Apple's official security update damaged my computer!

[PowerPC]

Originally Posted by Jesse714

What do you mean may not be as painful as you think? The motherboard IS your computer, if that goes out, all you have is your screen and hard drive, dvd drive.

And like Fryke said, paying a grand to fix it, is almost not even worth it, you may as well pay another 2-300 and get a brand new one.

How much did it cost??

To me it was more important to have access again to the projects I had stored on my HDD.

First I thought it was a problem with the 'Tiger', due to the update, so loosing all information would have been the worst case, worse than any fried or boiled motherboard. When people at the service told me that it was the motherboard that must be replaced and the information is there, unchanged and could be accessed... I thought... yeah, it hurts, but it could have been more painful (that is loosing all data).

The cost of repairing the MBP (that is changing the motherboard) was zero, because it was a known problem with the NVIDIA chipset or something like that, and the problem came from the manufacturer of the chipset, which probably supported the cost. So now I have a brand new motherboard and the MBP is back on the desk, running smoothly.

PPC.

[Doctor X]

So what happened to your PPC?:

I have a G4 PowerBook running OS X Tiger.

So . . . confused. . . .

--J.D.

[PowerPC]

Now I understand why everybody uses the full description of the computer as a signature for messages. I should have written it down somewhere before the... event, too

But now, after the computer starts, I can tell you that it is a MacBookPro, 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X Tiger.

[Jesse714]

Anytime you have a problem, you should ALWAYS say which computer you have, and specific specs.

The signatures are more of a "bragging" line, or just a way to show off lol. Not that anyone really cares if your computer is better than theirs, but like i said, its just for showing off.