menenbach1
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Hello,
My iMac G5 Power PC was working just fine, no problems. (2.0 GHZ, SuperDrive, OS 10.5). Before I went to bed, I placed a DVD into the Superdrive for copy by Toast Titanium. I wake up in the morning, the screen is black and the fans are running as fast and hard as possible. Unable to use anything or shutdown, I unfortunately had to use a hard shutdown via Power button. DVD did not eject.
Tried restarting the computer. I can hear it trying to boot from blank DVD. After done trying to boot from blank DVD, it does a little more and then the fans run fast and hard.
I hear no clicking of the hard drive (so I do not suspect a hard drive failure). I have tried unplugging and restarting to no avail. I have tried holding down power button for long time on both startup and shutdown. I never get the start up tone, but I tried holding down X and the Command Option FO (or whatever I read to do) -- nothing happens.
Any help could be appreciated? If it is shot, but not a hard drive problem, can I save the hard drive and put in an external case? (Almost everything is backed up -- but I have some PowerPC programs that don't work on Intel that I still like to use).
I appreciate your assistance.
Matt
My iMac G5 Power PC was working just fine, no problems. (2.0 GHZ, SuperDrive, OS 10.5). Before I went to bed, I placed a DVD into the Superdrive for copy by Toast Titanium. I wake up in the morning, the screen is black and the fans are running as fast and hard as possible. Unable to use anything or shutdown, I unfortunately had to use a hard shutdown via Power button. DVD did not eject.
Tried restarting the computer. I can hear it trying to boot from blank DVD. After done trying to boot from blank DVD, it does a little more and then the fans run fast and hard.
I hear no clicking of the hard drive (so I do not suspect a hard drive failure). I have tried unplugging and restarting to no avail. I have tried holding down power button for long time on both startup and shutdown. I never get the start up tone, but I tried holding down X and the Command Option FO (or whatever I read to do) -- nothing happens.
Any help could be appreciated? If it is shot, but not a hard drive problem, can I save the hard drive and put in an external case? (Almost everything is backed up -- but I have some PowerPC programs that don't work on Intel that I still like to use).
I appreciate your assistance.
Matt
