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G5 sounds like Darth Vader breathing, not starting
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<blockquote data-quote="BluesForDan" data-source="post: 919686" data-attributes="member: 51722"><p>yes, it was running thursday evening, I went to wake it up and it failed to respond. subsequent attempts to reboot only resulted in the 'breathing' sound</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>yes</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>good point, thanks.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>negative, have owned and used this computer since august of 2005</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>yes. When I brought to a macedge store in town (which closed one week after I got my computer back, nearest one is now one hour away) for a problem that turned out to be a corrupted font file of all things, the tech told me my hard drive was making a high pitched beeping noise, like a heart monitor and that it was likely to fail. That was one month ago.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The original OSX Tiger install disk that came with the computer new</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It is a rhythmic noise that sounds like a windy kind of noise, that I thought might have been a hard drive or a fan spooling up and down in speed. I don't know what the bleep it is doing, hence my asking to see if anybody else had experienced it. It sounds like something breathing in a slow and labored fashion.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>from some searching on the internet today, I read that logic boards (and power supplies) were known to fail on Macs. I'm trying to find out what its function is so I can try to figure out if it could be the culprit. It is part of my process of self-education. By replacing my hard drive, and still not being able to get the computer to boot up, I've pretty much eliminated the hard drive as the culprit. Now I have to look further.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BluesForDan, post: 919686, member: 51722"] yes, it was running thursday evening, I went to wake it up and it failed to respond. subsequent attempts to reboot only resulted in the 'breathing' sound yes good point, thanks. negative, have owned and used this computer since august of 2005 yes. When I brought to a macedge store in town (which closed one week after I got my computer back, nearest one is now one hour away) for a problem that turned out to be a corrupted font file of all things, the tech told me my hard drive was making a high pitched beeping noise, like a heart monitor and that it was likely to fail. That was one month ago. The original OSX Tiger install disk that came with the computer new It is a rhythmic noise that sounds like a windy kind of noise, that I thought might have been a hard drive or a fan spooling up and down in speed. I don't know what the bleep it is doing, hence my asking to see if anybody else had experienced it. It sounds like something breathing in a slow and labored fashion. from some searching on the internet today, I read that logic boards (and power supplies) were known to fail on Macs. I'm trying to find out what its function is so I can try to figure out if it could be the culprit. It is part of my process of self-education. By replacing my hard drive, and still not being able to get the computer to boot up, I've pretty much eliminated the hard drive as the culprit. Now I have to look further. [/QUOTE]
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