Recent content by mediaman67

yep, will do that for sure first

oh yeah - PSU - DOH! - I always just think of these as a Power Supply... Yeah, it would be interesting to find out... maybe I'll just try to find a parts machine on Ebay, and swap Power Supplies and see if that fixes it, which is something I had thought of too... but my guess is that it's...

I have 4 separate drives in that machine, so yeah, the os is on a whole other drive, and I have both Tiger and Leopard original discs, Tiger is handy - that is a good test though, I'll try that... So, what if it is the PSU? does that mean the Logic Board is hosed, or what is the repair? Thanks

ok, well, before it was called the SMU reset button, it was known as the Cuda - google it, and you will see that I'm not making it up, it's an Apple Term - but for the G5, I think they did do away with that tech, and call it SMU now, so we are both right. so, you are saying, to pick another...

it's a button on the motherboard that does a hard reset to the PRAM basically - has been on PPC macs since the Blue and White G3... very common thing to do when all else fails... the power outage is way before the drive even gets read - it's something in the boot sequence that happens early...

ahh.. correct - didn't even notice the date DOH!! :-) And neither was a G4 either :-)

yeah, the data is burned at two different wavelengths the 104 is a good drive, but really old - Pioneer drives don't last forever - lucky, you can buy a brand new 118D or something for about $40 on Ebay, etc...

Hi All, New here, thought I'd ask this, and see if anyone has a clue... G5 DP 2.0, PPC, with 3.5gigs RAM Running Tiger (last/latest 10.4.11) Here's the deal... If I try to boot the machine, or restart the machine, it will start to boot, and then shut off right away... the only way...