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Drewmon - Jul 22, 2005 - 12:20 am
I own one of the original G5 1.8 single CPU machines. Unfortunately ownership of this computer has truly been a love hate relationship. When it is good, it is great. When it is bad, it is a real pain.
At the moment it is bad, real bad. The unit will not power on at all. Depressing the power button produces the usual white light briefly and then it flashes. No video, no sound, fans are running at normal speed (no panic mode).
Prior to my current situation I would encounter weird lockups after installing the 10.4.2 update, more specifically in Halo. Every time I would start the program I could not get it to run for more than ~45-60 seconds before it would crash. I would also randomly but routinely receive the "black screen of death" where the G5 would request a reboot and panic mode failures would occassionally happen somewhere across the night (awake to discover fans running full speed and unit unresponsive).
Tried all the normal things, check disk permissions, ran hardware check (ran the complete test - all good), reset PMU, and reset PRAM with no change. Then tonight it apparently puked.
The unit is stock (1.8/512M/160HD/DVD-RW) exept for the video card, now an ATi 9600XT Apple OEM vs. original nVidia FX5200.
Not sure if there is anything left to try before taking it into the local Apple store, but thought I would ask.
At the moment it is bad, real bad. The unit will not power on at all. Depressing the power button produces the usual white light briefly and then it flashes. No video, no sound, fans are running at normal speed (no panic mode).
Prior to my current situation I would encounter weird lockups after installing the 10.4.2 update, more specifically in Halo. Every time I would start the program I could not get it to run for more than ~45-60 seconds before it would crash. I would also randomly but routinely receive the "black screen of death" where the G5 would request a reboot and panic mode failures would occassionally happen somewhere across the night (awake to discover fans running full speed and unit unresponsive).
Tried all the normal things, check disk permissions, ran hardware check (ran the complete test - all good), reset PMU, and reset PRAM with no change. Then tonight it apparently puked.
The unit is stock (1.8/512M/160HD/DVD-RW) exept for the video card, now an ATi 9600XT Apple OEM vs. original nVidia FX5200.
Not sure if there is anything left to try before taking it into the local Apple store, but thought I would ask.
thoule - Jul 22, 2005 - 12:30 am
From the sound of it, this is almost certainly hardware. I'd start by suspecting RAM- did you add any yourself? If so, take it out. Of course, if it's been so unstable for so long, there may now be software corruptions as well so it'll start to be hard to tell.
When I come across a computer like this, I tend to swap the RAM, then boot off of another firewire drive and run it for a while. If it still has problems, it's other hardware. If it runs fine, then I replace the RAM and go some more...
Todd
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todd@macosx.com ---- Apple Certified System Administrator
When I come across a computer like this, I tend to swap the RAM, then boot off of another firewire drive and run it for a while. If it still has problems, it's other hardware. If it runs fine, then I replace the RAM and go some more...
Todd
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todd@macosx.com ---- Apple Certified System Administrator
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