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iMac G5: Sell it broken or try to fix it?
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1453398" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>There's not a whole lot of troubleshooting you can do yourself…but one thing you can do is something that is related to the ram. Even though the ram was never upgraded since new…this doesn't mean the ram couldn't have gone bad with it while you've had it. Or maybe one of the ram slots themselves has gone bad.</p><p></p><p>Your iMac has 2 ram slots…and most likely has two sticks of ram installed in it (one in each ram slot)…probably 2 x 1gig sticks of ram. So we have:</p><p></p><p>- ram slot 1</p><p>- ram slot 2</p><p></p><p>- ram stick A</p><p>- ram stick B</p><p></p><p>The idea is to try all combinations to see if one of the sticks of ram are bad…or one of the ram slots are bad (only one stick of ram installed at a time). So you would need to do:</p><p></p><p>Test #1: Slot 1 + Stick A</p><p>Test #2: Slot 1 + Stick B</p><p>Test #3: Slot 2 + Stick A</p><p>Test #4: Slot 2 + Stick B</p><p></p><p>This may or may not be the problem…but by doing the tests…you can at least eliminate it as a possibility…and it's one of the troubleshooting things you can do without a repair shop or special diagnostic software.</p><p></p><p>One additional thought. You should have gotten 2 gray-colored disks which this computer when new. Disk #2 has a "Hardware Test" program on it. You could run it…and it may possibly turn something up as the problem.</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1453398, member: 56379"] There's not a whole lot of troubleshooting you can do yourself…but one thing you can do is something that is related to the ram. Even though the ram was never upgraded since new…this doesn't mean the ram couldn't have gone bad with it while you've had it. Or maybe one of the ram slots themselves has gone bad. Your iMac has 2 ram slots…and most likely has two sticks of ram installed in it (one in each ram slot)…probably 2 x 1gig sticks of ram. So we have: - ram slot 1 - ram slot 2 - ram stick A - ram stick B The idea is to try all combinations to see if one of the sticks of ram are bad…or one of the ram slots are bad (only one stick of ram installed at a time). So you would need to do: Test #1: Slot 1 + Stick A Test #2: Slot 1 + Stick B Test #3: Slot 2 + Stick A Test #4: Slot 2 + Stick B This may or may not be the problem…but by doing the tests…you can at least eliminate it as a possibility…and it's one of the troubleshooting things you can do without a repair shop or special diagnostic software. One additional thought. You should have gotten 2 gray-colored disks which this computer when new. Disk #2 has a "Hardware Test" program on it. You could run it…and it may possibly turn something up as the problem. - Nick [/QUOTE]
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