amoriellja...@att.net wrote: > Hello, > > My dual G5 won't boot now. Here's a synopsis of the problems: > > 1. usually hangs up at the white screen with the gray logo > 2. sometimes hangs up there and then shuts down on its own > 3. the tech had it working for 4 hours this morning & then it stopped > - he changed the pram battery since it's from June 2004 approx. > - he checked the connections > - he tested the hard drives with Disk Genius: passed all the tests > > I'm currently removing RAM in case there's a bad RAM stick. He > thought it was probably a bad mother board and time to be replaced > with a new Intel Mac.
Do they work on commission? > Is there a way to troubleshoot a bad motherboard. > > Other points: I had done the recent Apple updates and 1 of the 2 fans > isn't working. He didn't think there was a safety that shut down the > computer / boot process if it sensed a bad fan. > > Appreciate any insight. Thanks. > > Jason Although I haven't seen any discussion of the G5 towers having the same capacitor issues as the G5 iMacs it might be worth inspecting the motherboard. On ours they were just a little bulged. But we were having all kinds of boot issues. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
