Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem

2010-08-16 Thread Ray Forma
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

Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem

2010-08-13 Thread Frank Salleo
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

Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem

2010-08-13 Thread Philippe Chaperon
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

G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem

2010-08-12 Thread Philippe Chaperon
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

Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem

2010-08-12 Thread Daniel Kerr
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

Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem

2010-08-12 Thread Roger Kortas
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,

Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem

2010-08-12 Thread James / Hans Kunz
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

Re: G5 PPC Tower - Startup light flashing problem

2010-08-12 Thread Ronda Brown
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