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I have a very strange problem.
Here goes: G4 MDD 1-GHz 2gb ram 2 x120 HD internal 256mb geForce video card 320gb external and a 500gb external 2 LCD Monitors 1x19 1 x 22 both samsung About a month ago I had the below problem happen once and then it did not happen again until Saturday morning and then only once and then it worked fine and I was able to compress the video I was working on. And when I came in this morning and powered up the Mac it powered up fine and everything came on fine. The computer is running fine for about 10 minutes and then the monitors go black, This continued all day with it staying on anywhere from 1 minute to 20 minutes and then you can hear a fan kick into high gear and then the monitors shut down and go to black with no video coming to them. The fan quiets down to almost nothing. The light on the front of the computer stays on and then starts to slowly blink. All I can do is hold the button down until the Mac shuts down completely. As soon as it happened the last time I opened the side to see if the heat sink on the processor or if the power supply was very hot and they were not very hot at all. Ok here is what I have tried so far: Replaced the video card with one out my old G3 that I used in this G4 until I got the 256mb card. (No help sop put 256 card back in) Tried taking out the ram one stick at a time (No help) Reset the pram by holding down the command-option-p-r buttons (No Help) Made sure everything is seated properly Checked the fans on both the power supply and the big fan for the processor, I even replaced the fan that came with it with a quiet fan tonight. I even tried booting safe mode, with the old fan, and it shut down right way then I unhooked all of the peripherals and it ran fine for about 20 - 30 minutes. Then I hooked up my DVCAM deck and it work fine for about 5 minutes as I was opening programs, Photoshop, iTunes the fan went loud like it was revving up and then the monitor went black. I then unhooked the DVCAM deck and tried to restart the Mac and it got all the way up and last about 2 minutes and shut down the monitors again. I was thinking of going and buying a replacement battery from radio shack for the mother board. I really do not know what else to do I have about 5 project in there that need to be done ASAP. I was hoping to get them done before Friday. I am going to a Karate tournament in Daytona and was hoping to sell these DVDs there. Any help I can get would greatly appreciated and is badly needed. Thank you very much thekaratevideoguy |
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