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I have a failing Mac G5 tower (dual 2ghz with 1gb of RAM - from 2004 - with two internal Maxtor drives - startup is 160gb the second is 250gb - running 10.4.11). I took it in for a diagnostic and was told that that 'drive fails verification', 'unit has software corruption' and also that the 'unit passes all testing'. The shop's diagnosis was that what needed to happen was to replace the hard drive (which I decided to do myself).
I just bought a new 500gb SATA which I installed (I removed the other two drives so it is the only drive currently in the machine) - it has a bootable version of 10.4 on it - which was tested and worked on a computer at the store where I bought the drive.
But, the machine still won't boot and is exhibiting the same issues. My computer freezes on the gray Apple or goes to the 'stop' sign thing. I have tried a couple other booting tricks - and once it just immediately turned off and the last time I got a kernal panic.
Is it possible that there is a problem with the fans and that this is keeping the machine from starting up? The day the computer originally crashed it was around 100 degrees...
Is this a road I should go down? Are the fans easily replaced? Wouldn't the Mac store's diagnostic have detected this if it was the problem (I think they ran ASD v. 2.5.8 on it)?
Thanks for any thoughts or ideas!
I just bought a new 500gb SATA which I installed (I removed the other two drives so it is the only drive currently in the machine) - it has a bootable version of 10.4 on it - which was tested and worked on a computer at the store where I bought the drive.
But, the machine still won't boot and is exhibiting the same issues. My computer freezes on the gray Apple or goes to the 'stop' sign thing. I have tried a couple other booting tricks - and once it just immediately turned off and the last time I got a kernal panic.
Is it possible that there is a problem with the fans and that this is keeping the machine from starting up? The day the computer originally crashed it was around 100 degrees...
Is this a road I should go down? Are the fans easily replaced? Wouldn't the Mac store's diagnostic have detected this if it was the problem (I think they ran ASD v. 2.5.8 on it)?
Thanks for any thoughts or ideas!