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help: my G5 is having some major starting up problems
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<blockquote data-quote="h3o" data-source="post: 15408"><p>I have a 3 month old dual 2ghz G5. Since last week, it has had problems starting up. The power would turn on, but I wouldn't hear the welcome chime noise or it wouldn't trigger my monitor to turn on. I held down the power button and did a hard reboot. I had to do this a few times before it worked. I thought it might be my monitor. Then, a few days ago, I walk into my room and the CPU fans are going crazy, buzzing really loud at full speed. I've never heard it do that before and it sounded bad so I shut it down. Now it crashes every once in awhile, especially when using mac mail... and it is having major problems starting up.</p><p></p><p>I restarted about 10 times in a row and nothing happened. The system turns on, but nothing after that... no welcome chime or nothing on screen. I tried unplugging and replugging the power cords and monitor hookups, still won't start up. Then I left the room and see if it would start up if I gave it some time... When I came back in about 10 minutes later, its doing that high revving cooling fan thing again. So I shut it down and restarted and now it works. So, now I've found out that it only starts up successfully if I let it go into the high fan mode. That is the only way it will start up now. I have to press the power button, then wait for it to freak out, then turn it off and restart.</p><p></p><p>What the **** is up with my G5? I've had no problems with it whatsoever until now. I tried doing the permissions thing with disk utility and it keeps crashing without completing the "verify disk permissions" part. Does anyone know whats happening here? I'm going to call apple tomorrow and try and figure it out. Really sucks because I got a **** load of work to do this weekend.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="h3o, post: 15408"] I have a 3 month old dual 2ghz G5. Since last week, it has had problems starting up. The power would turn on, but I wouldn't hear the welcome chime noise or it wouldn't trigger my monitor to turn on. I held down the power button and did a hard reboot. I had to do this a few times before it worked. I thought it might be my monitor. Then, a few days ago, I walk into my room and the CPU fans are going crazy, buzzing really loud at full speed. I've never heard it do that before and it sounded bad so I shut it down. Now it crashes every once in awhile, especially when using mac mail... and it is having major problems starting up. I restarted about 10 times in a row and nothing happened. The system turns on, but nothing after that... no welcome chime or nothing on screen. I tried unplugging and replugging the power cords and monitor hookups, still won't start up. Then I left the room and see if it would start up if I gave it some time... When I came back in about 10 minutes later, its doing that high revving cooling fan thing again. So I shut it down and restarted and now it works. So, now I've found out that it only starts up successfully if I let it go into the high fan mode. That is the only way it will start up now. I have to press the power button, then wait for it to freak out, then turn it off and restart. What the **** is up with my G5? I've had no problems with it whatsoever until now. I tried doing the permissions thing with disk utility and it keeps crashing without completing the "verify disk permissions" part. Does anyone know whats happening here? I'm going to call apple tomorrow and try and figure it out. Really sucks because I got a **** load of work to do this weekend. [/QUOTE]
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