My g5 won’t boot

2018-06-03 Thread smac0031
Some progress. I swapped 3.6 batteries. I got it to chime and PR. It booted up. I put a bootable dvd drive genius in the optical. I rebooted, no chime, I could hear the voicing coil searching a few times, then it spun up and stopped. It just sits there with the power on doing nothing. I think

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2018-06-03 Thread Mark Murphy
Problem solved. I swapped the 3.6 battery from my deceased G4 which got the bong back. That still didn't get it to reboot so I checked around and found that a USB hub was disconnected. I have a mess here. I'm trying to move to a newer Intel Mac Pro. I have 3 computers, 2 monitors, 2