PowerMac G5 One Beep Before Chime

2012-03-17 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Hi all, I'm working on a Dual 2.3GHZ PowerMac G5. I put in eight matched 512MB ram chips, a new hard drive, a new optical drive, and have run the Apple Service Diagnostic over 20 times, and it passed them all. Now, I just started it up, it beeped once, then proceeded with normal booting. All the r

Re: PowerMac G5 One Beep Before Chime

2012-03-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> Hi all, I'm working on a Dual 2.3GHZ PowerMac G5. I put in eight matched > 512MB ram chips, a new hard drive, a new optical drive, and have run the > Apple Service Diagnostic over 20 times, and it passed them all. > > Now, I just started it up, it beeped once, then proceeded with normal > bootin

Re: PowerMac G5 One Beep Before Chime

2012-03-17 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > Hi all, I'm working on a Dual 2.3GHZ PowerMac G5. I put in eight matched > 512MB ram chips, a new hard drive, a new optical drive, and have run the > Apple Service Diagnostic over 20 times, and it passed them all. > > Now, I just started it up

Re: PowerMac G5 One Beep Before Chime

2012-03-17 Thread Dan
At 3:40 PM -0700 3/16/2012, Jonas Ulrich wrote: Dual 2.3GHZ PowerMac G5. I put in eight matched 512MB ram chips, a new hard drive, a new optical drive, and have run the Apple Service Diagnostic over 20 times, and it passed them all. Now, I just started it up, it beeped once, then proceeded w

PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-17 Thread Valter Prahlad
Hi all! My PM G5 2.7 DP goes generally fine, but it has some quirks now and then. This one is quite odd: once in a while (let's say once every one or two weeks), when switching the G5 on the DVD drive opens up. This happens just a couple seconds after pressing the ON button (so it doesn't seem so

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> My PM G5 2.7 DP goes generally fine, but it has some quirks now and then. > > This one is quite odd: once in a while (let's say once every one or two > weeks), when switching the G5 on the DVD drive opens up. > This happens just a couple seconds after pressing the ON button (so it > doesn't seem

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-17 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 17-03-2012 23:40, Cameron Kaiser ha scritto: > Mouse glitch where it thinks the button is down? Yeah, I thought about that. But I never touch the mouse when I boot up, and I cannot think why it would behave that way only once in a couple weeks (or more). BTW, the mouse is, actually, a

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-17 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 17, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: > Hi all! > > My PM G5 2.7 DP goes generally fine, but it has some quirks now and then. > > This one is quite odd: once in a while (let's say once every one or two > weeks), when switching the G5 on the DVD drive opens up. > This happens just a

Re: PowerMac G5 One Beep Before Chime

2012-03-17 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Thanks for all the replies so far! The power light is normal now. Twice now, when I've booted it up it goes into Open Firmware, and says "Device still fails after x tries" or something like that. I ran the ASD again, but after it passed, It all of a sudden shut off. This was about 10 hours after

Re: PowerMac G5 One Beep Before Chime

2012-03-17 Thread John Carmonne
On Mar 17, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > Thanks for all the replies so far! > > The power light is normal now. > > Twice now, when I've booted it up it goes into Open Firmware, and says > "Device still fails after x tries" or something like that. > > I ran the ASD again, but after i

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-17 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 17-03-2012 23:43, JohnCarmonne ha scritto: > Is it possible that when you shut it down you had a Toast or labeling program > up and the application didn't quit normal but forced quit due to shut down? No, I'd say no apps like that running, and definitely none of them forced quit. OTOH,

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-17 Thread John Carmonne
On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:42 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: > Il giorno 17-03-2012 23:43, JohnCarmonne ha scritto: > >> Is it possible that when you shut it down you had a Toast or labeling program >> up and the application didn't quit normal but forced quit due to shut down? > No, I'd say no apps like t

G5 Constant HD activity

2012-03-17 Thread JohnV
When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering away to itself? It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up again. G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 2GB SDRAM 10.4.11 RUNNING APPS: MAIL CALENDAR TEXT EDIT APPLEWORKS 6 ITUNES 8.2.1 -- You received this message be

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-17 Thread glen
- Original Message - > > Il giorno 17-03-2012 23:40, Cameron Kaiser ha scritto: > >>  Mouse glitch where it thinks the button is down? > > Yeah, I thought about that. But I never touch the mouse when I boot up, and > I cannot think why it would behave that way only once in a couple week

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

2012-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:16 PM, JohnV wrote: > When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering > away to itself? > It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up again. Probably Spotlight doing it's thing. Fire up Activity monitor and watch what's at the

Re: PowerMac G5 One Beep Before Chime

2012-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 17, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > > Any ideas why it would shut off? If it were a problem with the ram, how would > I tell for sure. It's difficult to test, because it's a random problem. Install Applejack, and run memtest. See the AppleJack readme, because it's not in the

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

2012-03-17 Thread Dan
At 11:16 PM -0400 3/17/2012, JohnV wrote: [G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 2GB SDRAM 10.4.11] When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering away to itself? It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up again. RUNNING APPS: MAIL CALENDAR TEXT EDIT APPLEWORKS 6 ITUNE

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

2012-03-17 Thread JohnV
mdimport seems to be the one... thanks. On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:03 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:16 PM, JohnV wrote: When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering away to itself? It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: OTOH, when I close Skype (v. 2.8.0.866) it often gives an error (like "Unexpectedly quit" or something). This is a bug in Skype, there's an open bug report that's been confirmed. The last version of Skype that runs without randomly crashin