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G5 Won't start - power problem?
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<blockquote data-quote="dazsnow" data-source="post: 727351" data-attributes="member: 66541"><p><strong>the plot thickens... airport problem?</strong></p><p></p><p>Well it turns out it was the little PRAM battery... or it least it was partly. After a very troublesome time of trying to get hold of one here in Beijing, I replaced the battery and the computer did actually start up. I got the lovely chime... the fans whirling.. the drive spinning... and grey screen with the apple... and THEN... "You computer needs to be restarted, please hold down the power button" etc. in several languages. I tried restarting about 10 times each time it was the same. Eventually it did start up normally and the computer appeared to be working perfectly... the only difference was that this time i tried plugging my ipod shuffle into the front to charge it up a bit but that surely can't have spurred the operating system to boot normally... </p><p></p><p>I didn't turn it off for a few days until I was setting up my wireless connection. The connection suddenly dropped after a few hours and then the airport couldn't detect any networks (there are usually about 5 in the vicinity). So... I restarted... then it was the same as before... just wouldn't get past the 'you need to restart' screen until after about 10 attempts i simply waiting on that screen and eventually it started up normally and works fine again only this time the airport card doesn't seem to be there at all... in the system monitor i mean.</p><p></p><p>I don't think i could have knocked it out of place when i was replacing the battery and now i'm afraid to restart the machine. Could it be that the airport card is faulty? Could that have been the problem all along do you think?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dazsnow, post: 727351, member: 66541"] [b]the plot thickens... airport problem?[/b] Well it turns out it was the little PRAM battery... or it least it was partly. After a very troublesome time of trying to get hold of one here in Beijing, I replaced the battery and the computer did actually start up. I got the lovely chime... the fans whirling.. the drive spinning... and grey screen with the apple... and THEN... "You computer needs to be restarted, please hold down the power button" etc. in several languages. I tried restarting about 10 times each time it was the same. Eventually it did start up normally and the computer appeared to be working perfectly... the only difference was that this time i tried plugging my ipod shuffle into the front to charge it up a bit but that surely can't have spurred the operating system to boot normally... I didn't turn it off for a few days until I was setting up my wireless connection. The connection suddenly dropped after a few hours and then the airport couldn't detect any networks (there are usually about 5 in the vicinity). So... I restarted... then it was the same as before... just wouldn't get past the 'you need to restart' screen until after about 10 attempts i simply waiting on that screen and eventually it started up normally and works fine again only this time the airport card doesn't seem to be there at all... in the system monitor i mean. I don't think i could have knocked it out of place when i was replacing the battery and now i'm afraid to restart the machine. Could it be that the airport card is faulty? Could that have been the problem all along do you think? [/QUOTE]
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