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I bought a my brothers 20" IMAC G5 last year. Recently, it was powering down and never could come back up. I took it to the apple store and they told me it was definitely the hard drive and not the power supply.
Now I am not a technical guy but I my dad is ---somewhat. He bought a drive that he had to format instead of buying the one the apple genius told me to (that is just my dad...) Now the computer powers on, but it has shut down on me several times.
The way it was explained to me was Leopard would automatically power down if something was wrong with the hard drive. My older brother who is a MAC fan and an engineer said it was due to my father formatting the new hard drive instead of buying the correct one. He bought a Western Digital Cavier 360 SATA.
Do any of you know if this matters? THe computer is up and running and has not shut down for hours but it did take me 30 min to finally get it to boot up. Keep in mind, the Apple Genius hooked it up to an external drive and had no issues.
Now I am not a technical guy but I my dad is ---somewhat. He bought a drive that he had to format instead of buying the one the apple genius told me to (that is just my dad...) Now the computer powers on, but it has shut down on me several times.
The way it was explained to me was Leopard would automatically power down if something was wrong with the hard drive. My older brother who is a MAC fan and an engineer said it was due to my father formatting the new hard drive instead of buying the correct one. He bought a Western Digital Cavier 360 SATA.
Do any of you know if this matters? THe computer is up and running and has not shut down for hours but it did take me 30 min to finally get it to boot up. Keep in mind, the Apple Genius hooked it up to an external drive and had no issues.