Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem
Phillipe, If your G5 ends up with unfixable problems I would be very interested in buying the 'remains'. On 13/08/2010, at 0:30 , Philippe Chaperon wrote: Good evening All, My G5 PPC 1.8 dual will not start properly. There are no start up chime, the screen remains black and the small start 'on' light, on the tower and on the flat screen, flashes 3 times with a break and 3 times again ad infinitum. I have tried restarting it many times now with the same problem. Has someone got a solution that can help, or is this possibly a hardware failure? Any advice will be much appreciated. Kind regards, -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale Regards, Ray Forma 50 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159, Australia Tel Fax +61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem
Hi I remember my G5 doing that when it went off during a power failure. Resetting the power management (cuda switch) fixed it. The instructions are at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1939 This is a last resort and resets your hardware back to default values. If it doesn't work it is normally a hardware fault. Cheers Frank On 13/08/10 8:46 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 13/08/2010, at 12:44 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 13/8/10 12:30 AM, Philippe Chaperon laut...@westnet.com.au wrote: Good evening All, My G5 PPC 1.8 dual will not start properly. There are no start up chime, the screen remains black and the small start 'on' light, on the tower and on the flat screen, flashes 3 times with a break and 3 times again ad infinitum. I have tried restarting it many times now with the same problem. Has someone got a solution that can help, or is this possibly a hardware failure? Any advice will be much appreciated. Kind regards, Hi Philippe Discount all the cables and leave for about 5mins, then just plug it back in and try it again. Sometimes, if that doesn't fix you have to repeat, but also take the battery out. I've had that happen once before and the above fixed it. Other times, it was a few more problems to work through. But that's a start ;) Kind Regards Daniel Hi Philippe, If Daniel's first suggestion doesn't fix the problem, try checking the RAM. When the power light flashes three times, this normally means that none of the RAM banks passed memory testing. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au __ Frank SalleoFaculty OSH and Facilities Coordinator Faculty of Minerals and Energy Faculty of Sustainability, Environmental And Life Sciences Murdoch University Perth, Western Australia Phone 9360 2623 University Registered 'Provider Code. 00125J' __ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem
Dear Wamug'ers, Million thanks to all of you for the many suggestions - Daniel, Roger, James, Rhonda and Frank, I do appreciate it very much. I still do not know what has gone wrong with my very faithful G5, but due to lack of time at the moment I have left the machine with Daniel to look at. I will however let you know what the problem is once found. Shay, the memory cards have been in the machine for many years, but maybe needs to be reseated. This machine has been so reliable that I was literally in shock last night, but slowly overcoming the condition by talking myself into accepting that after some 9 years or possibly a bit longer, this computer has given me much more than one should expect. Last night I did go on Apple's G5 forum and lo and behold someone had posted exactly the same problem as mine. There was no reply when I logged off around 23:30, and have not checked the site as yet. Again, my heartfelt gratitude for the many suggestions and ideas. Good night all kind regards, Philippe Chaperon 2010/8/13 Frank Salleo f.sal...@murdoch.edu.au: Hi I remember my G5 doing that when it went off during a power failure. Resetting the power management (cuda switch) fixed it. The instructions are at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1939 This is a last resort and resets your hardware back to default values. If it doesn't work it is normally a hardware fault. Cheers Frank On 13/08/10 8:46 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 13/08/2010, at 12:44 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 13/8/10 12:30 AM, Philippe Chaperon laut...@westnet.com.au wrote: Good evening All, My G5 PPC 1.8 dual will not start properly. There are no start up chime, the screen remains black and the small start 'on' light, on the tower and on the flat screen, flashes 3 times with a break and 3 times again ad infinitum. I have tried restarting it many times now with the same problem. Has someone got a solution that can help, or is this possibly a hardware failure? Any advice will be much appreciated. Kind regards, Hi Philippe Discount all the cables and leave for about 5mins, then just plug it back in and try it again. Sometimes, if that doesn't fix you have to repeat, but also take the battery out. I've had that happen once before and the above fixed it. Other times, it was a few more problems to work through. But that's a start ;) Kind Regards Daniel Hi Philippe, If Daniel's first suggestion doesn't fix the problem, try checking the RAM. When the power light flashes three times, this normally means that none of the RAM banks passed memory testing. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au __ Frank Salleo Faculty OSH and Facilities Coordinator Faculty of Minerals and Energy Faculty of Sustainability, Environmental And Life Sciences Murdoch University Perth, Western Australia Phone 9360 2623 University Registered 'Provider Code. 00125J' __ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem
Good evening All, My G5 PPC 1.8 dual will not start properly. There are no start up chime, the screen remains black and the small start 'on' light, on the tower and on the flat screen, flashes 3 times with a break and 3 times again ad infinitum. I have tried restarting it many times now with the same problem. Has someone got a solution that can help, or is this possibly a hardware failure? Any advice will be much appreciated. Kind regards, -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem
On 13/8/10 12:30 AM, Philippe Chaperon laut...@westnet.com.au wrote: Good evening All, My G5 PPC 1.8 dual will not start properly. There are no start up chime, the screen remains black and the small start 'on' light, on the tower and on the flat screen, flashes 3 times with a break and 3 times again ad infinitum. I have tried restarting it many times now with the same problem. Has someone got a solution that can help, or is this possibly a hardware failure? Any advice will be much appreciated. Kind regards, Hi Philippe Discount all the cables and leave for about 5mins, then just plug it back in and try it again. Sometimes, if that doesn't fix you have to repeat, but also take the battery out. I've had that happen once before and the above fixed it. Other times, it was a few more problems to work through. But that's a start ;) Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem
Hi Philippe Have you tried what Daniel suggested? if so is it still the same? Roger On 13/08/2010, at 12:56 AM, Philippe Chaperon wrote: Good evening All, My G5 PPC 1.8 dual will not start properly. There are no start up chime, the screen remains black and the small start 'on' light, on the tower and on the flat screen, flashes 3 times with a break and 3 times again ad infinitum. I have tried restarting it many times, with Command+ Option+P+R also with the same problem. Has someone got a solution that can help, or is this possibly a hardware failure? The RAM battery has not shown the usual sign of weakening, but I have not changed it yet. Any advice will be much appreciated. Kind regards, -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem
no startup chime (or strange sound) means hardware failure..ram cards, power supply, pram battery does not stop the mac, you just have the wrong time, some settings are on default. you may unplug replug the ram cards, power supply, harddisk James On 13/08/2010, at 0:56, Philippe Chaperon wrote: Good evening All, My G5 PPC 1.8 dual will not start properly. There are no start up chime, the screen remains black and the small start 'on' light, on the tower and on the flat screen, flashes 3 times with a break and 3 times again ad infinitum. I have tried restarting it many times, with Command+ Option+P+R also with the same problem. Has someone got a solution that can help, or is this possibly a hardware failure? The RAM battery has not shown the usual sign of weakening, but I have not changed it yet. Any advice will be much appreciated. Kind regards, -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway over 40 years in electronics -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem
On 13/08/2010, at 12:44 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 13/8/10 12:30 AM, Philippe Chaperon laut...@westnet.com.au wrote: Good evening All, My G5 PPC 1.8 dual will not start properly. There are no start up chime, the screen remains black and the small start 'on' light, on the tower and on the flat screen, flashes 3 times with a break and 3 times again ad infinitum. I have tried restarting it many times now with the same problem. Has someone got a solution that can help, or is this possibly a hardware failure? Any advice will be much appreciated. Kind regards, Hi Philippe Discount all the cables and leave for about 5mins, then just plug it back in and try it again. Sometimes, if that doesn't fix you have to repeat, but also take the battery out. I've had that happen once before and the above fixed it. Other times, it was a few more problems to work through. But that's a start ;) Kind Regards Daniel Hi Philippe, If Daniel's first suggestion doesn't fix the problem, try checking the RAM. When the power light flashes three times, this normally means that none of the RAM banks passed memory testing. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
