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Hi,
I recently got a broken 1.8 dual processor g5 off of ebay on the cheap.. I figured I could possibly fix it up as I have taken apart a few mac imacs and a mac desktop..I hooked up a hard drive and It came with the wrong ram and only one stick at that and would not power on.. so I purchased 2 512mb PC3200 400mhz 184 pin dimms off ebay that were a pull from an iMac G5.
well. I put the Ram in the way Apple support says, logic board lit, power light came on this time got a startup chime and got a blinking system folder.. I have an OS 10.3 CD (and I had just reloaded it on a G3 system of mine last night) I put in the CD and got to the apple start up and.. I don't know how to describe it. The Apple icon shows up normal on the grey screen, then moves down and to the right about 10 to 20 pixels. It left odd spots on the top left area of the screen where the pixels moved from (you can see in the pic the dark section it left on the top left).
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/shinnism/applemoving.jpg
After that sometimes it goes to the screen with a slashed circle sometimes it never gets there. The CD key on my keyboard only opens the drive when I hold it on startup. Using an old old imac hardware diagnostic CD it went to mac firmware which i have never been to before and it said:
"Invalid Memory Access
Srr0:00000000.00000000.8ac4 Srr1:.0000(ect..)
date set to 1904"
I tried other ram slots
reset the Pram
reset the NVram
reset the PMU
replaced the battery
nothing helped.
just curious if anyone had any other ideas. I figured I would try all possabilities or see if someone knew the answer before I pay some money for someone else to diagnose for me.
.. ah also I forgot to add one of the memory slots is missing a side latch but I still got the memory in there tight. Someone told me it shouldn't be an issue if I don't move it around too much.
I recently got a broken 1.8 dual processor g5 off of ebay on the cheap.. I figured I could possibly fix it up as I have taken apart a few mac imacs and a mac desktop..I hooked up a hard drive and It came with the wrong ram and only one stick at that and would not power on.. so I purchased 2 512mb PC3200 400mhz 184 pin dimms off ebay that were a pull from an iMac G5.
well. I put the Ram in the way Apple support says, logic board lit, power light came on this time got a startup chime and got a blinking system folder.. I have an OS 10.3 CD (and I had just reloaded it on a G3 system of mine last night) I put in the CD and got to the apple start up and.. I don't know how to describe it. The Apple icon shows up normal on the grey screen, then moves down and to the right about 10 to 20 pixels. It left odd spots on the top left area of the screen where the pixels moved from (you can see in the pic the dark section it left on the top left).
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/shinnism/applemoving.jpg
After that sometimes it goes to the screen with a slashed circle sometimes it never gets there. The CD key on my keyboard only opens the drive when I hold it on startup. Using an old old imac hardware diagnostic CD it went to mac firmware which i have never been to before and it said:
"Invalid Memory Access
Srr0:00000000.00000000.8ac4 Srr1:.0000(ect..)
date set to 1904"
I tried other ram slots
reset the Pram
reset the NVram
reset the PMU
replaced the battery
nothing helped.
just curious if anyone had any other ideas. I figured I would try all possabilities or see if someone knew the answer before I pay some money for someone else to diagnose for me.
.. ah also I forgot to add one of the memory slots is missing a side latch but I still got the memory in there tight. Someone told me it shouldn't be an issue if I don't move it around too much.