Hi guys,
About a month ago, I visited my relative's house and came back with a corrupted laptop. It was frozen when waking up. When I held down the power button to shut if off and turn it back on, the laptop was unable to locate to bootable drive (flashing folder w/ "?"). Sometimes it would show the stop/prohibitory sign. I restored with my Time Machine backup, reset PRAM and SMC, but the problem still persisted. I ended up clean install my mac with my bootable USB w/ Yosemite. Problem solved.
Until...
This weekend, I went back again and connected to WiFi like I usually do. The same problem happened. I started my standard procedure with reseting PRAM/SMC but that didn't fix anything. I tried to clean install but this time I wasn't able to erase my HD before performing the installing process and my internal drive went missing. I had to restarted my MBP couple times before it detected my drive. I erased and clean installed the OS X.
It's been a day and a half and my mac seems to be running fine. There are a little hiccups here and there (or many I'm just paranoid).
While solving this problem, I noticed one thing...
Every time I connect to my relative's WiFi (only there WiFi), my mac seems to get corrupted. I have no issue with other WiFi connections (at least not yet). I updated the router's firmware but it stills corrupted my mac when connected.
I've never heard a laptop being corrupted because of a certain WiFi connection before. I went back to my relative's couple times when I had OS X Maverick on and I never had such a problem.
Any thoughts on this?
FYI, I'm using MBP w/ retina 15" early 2013.
About a month ago, I visited my relative's house and came back with a corrupted laptop. It was frozen when waking up. When I held down the power button to shut if off and turn it back on, the laptop was unable to locate to bootable drive (flashing folder w/ "?"). Sometimes it would show the stop/prohibitory sign. I restored with my Time Machine backup, reset PRAM and SMC, but the problem still persisted. I ended up clean install my mac with my bootable USB w/ Yosemite. Problem solved.
Until...
This weekend, I went back again and connected to WiFi like I usually do. The same problem happened. I started my standard procedure with reseting PRAM/SMC but that didn't fix anything. I tried to clean install but this time I wasn't able to erase my HD before performing the installing process and my internal drive went missing. I had to restarted my MBP couple times before it detected my drive. I erased and clean installed the OS X.
It's been a day and a half and my mac seems to be running fine. There are a little hiccups here and there (or many I'm just paranoid).
While solving this problem, I noticed one thing...
Every time I connect to my relative's WiFi (only there WiFi), my mac seems to get corrupted. I have no issue with other WiFi connections (at least not yet). I updated the router's firmware but it stills corrupted my mac when connected.
I've never heard a laptop being corrupted because of a certain WiFi connection before. I went back to my relative's couple times when I had OS X Maverick on and I never had such a problem.
Any thoughts on this?
FYI, I'm using MBP w/ retina 15" early 2013.