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hi. I'm new here. But desperate for some solutions or suggestions...
I have 2 Power Mac G5s. One is a 1.6 single processor from 2004, the newer one is a 2.3 dual (2005). Both have problems.
I switched to the 2.3 for more power as I am a composer and use mem-heavy samples. The 1.6 used to make loud sudden crashing noises when I used my sequencer program and samples, it was awful.
I had been using the 2.3 for everything until the other day when it started to freeze. Then within a few hours I couldn't boot.
So I switched the two discs in it (which seem ok) to the 1.6 just to be able to work, although it's useless for music audio work and I cannot get any sound. Also, programs (anything, browsers, applications, music notation program...) all just vanish from the screen regularly so I have to save almost every few seconds to be sure not to lose anything. Hopeless.
Now, the big problem with the 2.3. It now has 1.5gig RAM. (Before, it had 3gig) I have a useable disc in it which booted up just once in the hundreds of times I tried, into OS 10.4.11. Nearly all the times I try, it fails to boot. Most times nothing appears on the screen. The next best is the apple screen. But now it never gets past the apple screen.
If I leave the apple screen on, the machine overheats and fan noise increases.
I cannot boot from the CD, same problem.
If I keep the on button pressed I get a tone and then the text screen saying enter 'mac-boot'. This always leads to the same place, apple screen then overheat.
The machine doesn't recognise the opening command to use the apple hardware test.
I have tried pressing the CSU button on the logic board.
I have tried swapping the battery on the logic board.
Apart from 'you need another computer', does anyone out there have any suggestions as to what else I could try?
Very grateful for any ideas... with both 1.6 and 2.3 actually.
I also have 2 faulty G4 laptops... but that's for another time. This place is full of bust macs...
Thanks so much.
Frustrated, from the UK
I have 2 Power Mac G5s. One is a 1.6 single processor from 2004, the newer one is a 2.3 dual (2005). Both have problems.
I switched to the 2.3 for more power as I am a composer and use mem-heavy samples. The 1.6 used to make loud sudden crashing noises when I used my sequencer program and samples, it was awful.
I had been using the 2.3 for everything until the other day when it started to freeze. Then within a few hours I couldn't boot.
So I switched the two discs in it (which seem ok) to the 1.6 just to be able to work, although it's useless for music audio work and I cannot get any sound. Also, programs (anything, browsers, applications, music notation program...) all just vanish from the screen regularly so I have to save almost every few seconds to be sure not to lose anything. Hopeless.
Now, the big problem with the 2.3. It now has 1.5gig RAM. (Before, it had 3gig) I have a useable disc in it which booted up just once in the hundreds of times I tried, into OS 10.4.11. Nearly all the times I try, it fails to boot. Most times nothing appears on the screen. The next best is the apple screen. But now it never gets past the apple screen.
If I leave the apple screen on, the machine overheats and fan noise increases.
I cannot boot from the CD, same problem.
If I keep the on button pressed I get a tone and then the text screen saying enter 'mac-boot'. This always leads to the same place, apple screen then overheat.
The machine doesn't recognise the opening command to use the apple hardware test.
I have tried pressing the CSU button on the logic board.
I have tried swapping the battery on the logic board.
Apart from 'you need another computer', does anyone out there have any suggestions as to what else I could try?
Very grateful for any ideas... with both 1.6 and 2.3 actually.
I also have 2 faulty G4 laptops... but that's for another time. This place is full of bust macs...
Thanks so much.
Frustrated, from the UK