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I'm a video/audio editor and am at the end of my diagnoisic accumen.
I have a computer that takes a day to boot, and then just hangs on the pinwheel. I have tried everything I know to fix it, and now need a real technician.
Here are the specs
G5 quad core PowerMac 2005(late) (not Intel)
4gigs ram
I think my processor speed is 1.87
Problem:
Computer unresponsive.
Verified disc permissions on boot drive - verified something was wrong and needed to repair disc permissions
Tried to repair disc permissions on the hard drive I boot from. After a day and a half no progress had been made. Repair hung on the horizontal blue barber pole.
Then, I manually inserted the install disc and ran Repair disc permissions from the utilities menu, again, repair did not progress.
Test the hardware, everything passed.
reset pram
Tried to boot, took a day and a half, again, tried to run Repair Disc Permissions, but it did not work.
Booted from Install, tried to repair disc permissions, did not work.
I've repeated the steps above several times, now I end up at what looks like DOS when I boot. and the screen says, "disk timeout"
At one point two red lights were lit on the logic board, but have not recreated the situation again.
It seems i just need to repair the disc permissions on the Boot HD, but it won't do it.
any help is appriciated.
I have a computer that takes a day to boot, and then just hangs on the pinwheel. I have tried everything I know to fix it, and now need a real technician.
Here are the specs
G5 quad core PowerMac 2005(late) (not Intel)
4gigs ram
I think my processor speed is 1.87
Problem:
Computer unresponsive.
Verified disc permissions on boot drive - verified something was wrong and needed to repair disc permissions
Tried to repair disc permissions on the hard drive I boot from. After a day and a half no progress had been made. Repair hung on the horizontal blue barber pole.
Then, I manually inserted the install disc and ran Repair disc permissions from the utilities menu, again, repair did not progress.
Test the hardware, everything passed.
reset pram
Tried to boot, took a day and a half, again, tried to run Repair Disc Permissions, but it did not work.
Booted from Install, tried to repair disc permissions, did not work.
I've repeated the steps above several times, now I end up at what looks like DOS when I boot. and the screen says, "disk timeout"
At one point two red lights were lit on the logic board, but have not recreated the situation again.
It seems i just need to repair the disc permissions on the Boot HD, but it won't do it.
any help is appriciated.