Greetings all. I have a new iMac but I occasionally use my old Power Mac G5. Lately it's been freezing when I try to open big files, and just today it wouldn't fully start up after a freeze. I get a gray screen with the Apple logo. After three tries I got just a blank black screen. I also notice if I wait and hope something will become of the gray screen, the fan starts to gradually run real high. So I shut everything down and left the house and came back a few hours later--and I got it to turned on completely. The first thing I did was do a secure trash dump as I knew I had quite a few files in there. It actually looked as if it would take about an hour to completely trash everything so I left the room. 20 minutes later I heard the fan running high again which, I assume, signifies the computer just went stagnant again in the middle of the permanent trashing.
I really, really don't have much of ANYthing on the harddrive at all, so it's not like the computer's being maxxed out. Although it has seen almost ten years of hard labor though.
So is there a solution to not only getting it back on so I can continue dumping the trash, but also from solving this whole dilemma of it not coming on? Is there any downloadable software for old G5s I can apply to this problem once I get the computer back on?
Thanks very, very much for any and all help.
Les
I really, really don't have much of ANYthing on the harddrive at all, so it's not like the computer's being maxxed out. Although it has seen almost ten years of hard labor though.
So is there a solution to not only getting it back on so I can continue dumping the trash, but also from solving this whole dilemma of it not coming on? Is there any downloadable software for old G5s I can apply to this problem once I get the computer back on?
Thanks very, very much for any and all help.
Les