Neal sort of what happened to this old G5 17" iMac was working on the dining room table shut it down Then nothing after moving it back in the the office with the nice new pergo floors.
Just a chirping from the power supply. On Jan 29, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Neal Hammon wrote: > > On Jan 429, 1120102007, at 4:10 PM, Ed Wiser wrote: > >> In praise of the iPad: A contrarian view >> >> I agree with the above and with the daring fireball article. >> People are moving away from just using a computer to access their email and >> the web. >> Really a computer is over kill for such task's. Most people really don't >> need a computer but they do want that web thing. >> Making contact with friends and family and reading about stuff on the that >> intertube thing that is so new. >> We have just become use to finding things or losing things on our hard >> drive's. In 10 years time the computer as we know it will be a very >> specialized device. >> >> Well I am off to buy a new iMac tonight my old G5 iMac just lost its power >> supply last night and my father in law who is 81 misses his email. >> >> > I don't want to loose power in my old G5 aluminum Mac, especially as it has > lots of energy and two hard drives. And even worse, I am in the final stages > of drawing a large house in CAD, 8 pages so far, each 24 by 30 inches chucked > full of dimensions, notes, etc. > > However, Wednesday evening, when I put the Mac into the sleep mode, as I > usually do, and went up to have a drink with my wife. For some reason I had > to go back to room that containes my computer, and for some reason my > computer was making a rather loud noise (for a Mac) which I took to be the > fan running at full speed, but maybe the noise was caused by something else. > But when I attempted to get it out of sleep, it would not do so. I tried > everything and the screen stayed black. > >>> >>> I tried the off button, an maybe I did not hold it down long enough, but >>> this would not turn off the computer either, so I finally pull the plug and >>> as expected, the computer went into the off mode. >>> >>> Then I tried to start it, and it started fine. Things seemed to work ok, >>> and so I put it back onto sleep mode, and check it several time after that, >>> and no noises were heard. >>> >>> This morning I tried the computer again, and it appeared to come off of the >>> sleep mode in the usual manner, but after that, I had a really dead >>> picture. All the desk icons were in place as was my normal screen picture >>> of a sailing ship, but nothing would work. I could click the menu or the >>> icons, but nothing happened. >>> >>> Finally I turn it off by pushing the start button, and when I restarted the >>> computer again, everything worked normally. It has worked normally since, >>> but I just turn if off now, and avoid the sleep mode. >>> >>> A good friend suggested it might be overheating, due to the age and perhaps >>> because it had accumulated dust, etc. > He suggested that I take it to Louisville and let them look at it. Mine is > one of the earliest G5 models with 3.5 SDRAM. > > > Neal Hammon >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
