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  1. rickself

    G5 On Leopard Finder Locks Up

    Suddenly overnight my G5 running leopard will lock up on the finder and the beachball will just continue spending. If I try to launch ANYTHING there's no reaction. Everything worked yesterday. I've tried Terminal fsck, also dusk utility. Disk utility hoes for 5 minutes and everything locks up...
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    Power Mac G5 Quad Core (2.5) Has Gotten Noisy

    That's what I was looking for! Now I can start ripping into this bad beast and clean up some dust. Thanks so much, Cheryl, for your time and help.
  3. rickself

    Power Mac G5 Quad Core (2.5) Has Gotten Noisy

    I found an Apple article on resetting the SMU, which among other things controls the fans. It seemed to help…some. I've still got the wind up and wind down noise. But not like it was before.
  4. rickself

    Power Mac G5 Quad Core (2.5) Has Gotten Noisy

    I will make an audio recording and create a download link. Look for an email in the morning Wednesday. Thanks, Cheryl.
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    Power Mac G5 Quad Core (2.5) Has Gotten Noisy

    Is there a way for me to upload an audio file to show what the sound really is?
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    Power Mac G5 Quad Core (2.5) Has Gotten Noisy

    Interesting discovery - when I take the side off and remove the plastic air deflector, the noise goes way down. I routinely blow the fans out but there must be an airflow problem that i need to address. I pull the slide out fans from the front end to blow them out. I've heard there are a dozen...
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    Power Mac G5 Quad Core (2.5) Has Gotten Noisy

    I shut the Mac down every night and back on in the morning. It starts to "take off" when I start doing almost anything but especially anything that takes a lot of processing. When it goes back to doing nothing, the noise returns back to normal running sound.
  8. rickself

    Power Mac G5 Quad Core (2.5) Has Gotten Noisy

    Hi Cheryl - it does not sound like hard drive noise. I dust the fans with canned air so there isn't much 'visible dust'.
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    Power Mac G5 Quad Core (2.5) Has Gotten Noisy

    I've noticed in the last year that my G5 has gotten so noisy, when it's under a load, like capturing audio from voice recorders or using LogMeIn to work on my office computer from home, it sounds like a 747 coming in for a landing! All I've done in the past year is add RAM. Is there something I...
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    Program to delete unused PPD files from 10.5.8 G5

    Found it on my own…Print Therapy
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    Program to delete unused PPD files from 10.5.8 G5

    I have probably 200 ppd files that are installed in my 10.5.8 G5. I know there's a program out there that will delete these files, and also at the same time, repair permissions. I used it just last year on another Mac and now cannot remember the name. You can't just remove the files, they are...
  12. rickself

    G5 PPC on Leopard passes tests, still won't boot from internal drive

    I tried the shift command V and it stopped for a minute at: Sophos Anti Virus on - access kext activated. Now the screen is showing line after line of error reports, all ending with invalid destination port, if that means anything.
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    G5 PPC on Leopard passes tests, still won't boot from internal drive

    Right, 2 gig! Haha, you can tell I'm old school. I rebooted with the shift key down to disable extensions. The screen is now blue and every 5 seconds or so the spinning gear appears for maybe a second and then goes away. This keeps repeating. Is this worth my time to wait for?
  14. rickself

    G5 PPC on Leopard passes tests, still won't boot from internal drive

    Thanks, DeltaMac. Your insight is appreciated. The G5 is a refurbished from one year ago from PowerMax. The drives were new at that time. My backup system drive was supposed to be a 2 gig but they sent a 1 gig so after receiving the correct 2 gig drive, I made the 1 gig drive an emergency...
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    G5 PPC on Leopard passes tests, still won't boot from internal drive

    Also, is there a way to turn off extensions like the old systems by holding down the shift key on bootup?
  16. rickself

    G5 PPC on Leopard passes tests, still won't boot from internal drive

    I do have an extra system hard drive that I can install. Any thoughts if I should watch the gear spin for a while longer or pull the drive and install the backup system drive. Thank you, sir.
  17. rickself

    G5 PPC on Leopard passes tests, still won't boot from internal drive

    We had some power flickers yesterday afternoon and now my Mac refuses to boot. My G5 PPC running Leopard will not boot from the internal drives. It will boot from the install DVD. I have run the Command-S with the fsck -fy and Command-V. Both appear to run okay. I can hold the option key down...
  18. rickself

    G5 PCI Bridge - What is it? What does it do?

    No, it's a fan mounted on the PCI Bridge. I'll share what the Tech Support guy says when he gets back.
  19. rickself

    G5 PCI Bridge - What is it? What does it do?

    Hi all - I am trying to detect some vibration and excessive noise coming from the back half of my Power Mac G5 Quad. Tech support at PowerMax suggested I check the mini fans on the cards in the expansion slots. In the #1 slot is the GeForce 6600. There is no fan on it. In slot #3 is the PCI...
  20. rickself

    Dual DVI ports not working

    Well, didn't work. I'm taking the G5 in to Staples - they can't fix it and I wouldn't let them! - but told me that they could hook it up to their monitor with a DVI cable and know right there if it's the card or my monitor.
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