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    flashing earth - no keyboard, mouse, dvd door will not open - NOTHING-HELP

    flashing earth - no keyboard, mouse, dvd door will not open - NOTHING-HELP

    I have no way of inputing anything into the G5 power mac I have - no doors will open, can't use keyboard or mouse. Have rebooted several times, sometimes I get a flashing earth that turns into a flashing earth on start up and then turns into to a steady earth symbol, other times I get a steady earth at startup and then other times I get a question mark. I can not inset disks - not sure what to do here--never happened before - this is the water cooled model--no leaks. I have it run the very very fast with a loud whirling sound - changed keyboards and that seemed to fix it.

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    Hold down the option key while booting. It sounds as if the OS x system is trying to Net Boot to a server. Also see if you can Safe Boot. If you can't Safe Boot then it most likely the hard drive went south, so replace it.
    Mac Pro Dual 2.8 Quad (2nd gen), 14G Ram, Two DVD-RW Drives, OS X 10.8.3
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