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No, there doesn't seem to be any leaking. The HD is accessed for a few moments, but then I don't hear it again. But, the fans don't go crazy until just about the right amount of time for the OS to boot. So I'm thinking maybe the OS is still coming up.

Well he doesn't have video, so he can't use the hardware test CD.

My father owns one of the original G5s, so its power pc not intel. Today while browsing an excel spreadsheet he says part of the screen turned black, then the monitor shut off, then the monitor came back on but not video. Mean while the fans started spinning out of control. Now when he tries to...

My father is having an issue with Time Machine. He has two HDs both 153 gig. He uses the second HD solely to backup the first HD. When he uses Time Machine it tells him it has 164 gig to backup, and can't do it since the HD is only 153 gig. Well if the HD only holds 153 gig, how can Time Machine...

It does, but it was the mac version and I have had it for about 6 months without any problems.

Yes the old card came with the machine. The new card was an ati radeon xt800 pro. But I still don't quite understand. If the card was damaged, why would it work under safe mode?

I took out the video card, and put in an old one and the computer works just fine. What kind of video card problem lets it work in safe mode, or if I boot to a CD, but doesn't work once the computer is fully booted?

I've looked up this problem all over the internet and they all talk about the same thing. Delete this folder, fix permissions, ect. but what they all don't cover is that I took a drive out of another computer, reinstalled the OS, put it in the G5 and I get the blue screen. If it was permissions...

Yes I have. I thought that would have worked. Since the drive works in safe boot I can't think of anything else to do beside zapping the pram.

I did both of those, and everything is fine. I even tried doing single user mode and renaming prefrences and caches, as prefrences_old and caches_old as someone else suggested. Still not working.

Ok I tried booting into safe boot, and the HD comes up just fine with all my data. I even tried deleting all the log in items incase there was a problem there, but I still can't boot up normally.

oh and I am running the latest version of Tiger.

Last night my house lost power. Now when I boot the G5 after it is done loading with the grey screen and the grey apple, it switches over to an all blue screen. After about 5 minutes I get a pointer, but that is it. I thought something bad had happened to my drives so I took some HDs from the G4...

I have one of the original G5 dual CPU models. Today it has started shutting off after random amounts of time. Almost as if it had a sudden loss of power, like you pulled out the plug. I checked the CPUs and they are running at about 135F so I don't think it is overheating. What else could the...

but how do you update to 9.2 if the update installer needs to run in classic, and classic won't run because it is only 9.1?