 My G5 Is Under Repair…, I'm a poor lonesome moderator |
  Wed 7 Jun 2006, 23:38
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Well, I wasn't a lot around for 8 days as my G5 1.8 from 2003 decided to freeze on spot since last wednesday. It freezed at choice during boot (rotating thing), loading OS X (blue screen) or right during/after login.
The lithium battery was dead but not at first when I checked it, when I could change it it went slightly more "normal" as I could try to start from the Apple Hardware Test. Else I could only boot in Open Firmware and Single User Mode. When I tried to startup on the install CD/DVD of 10.2.7, panther, tiger it froze too. However, after the lithium battery change I could install a 10.2.7 on the remaining drive (freeze in the middle but the system seems 100% on the drive). The drives were OK, as the RAM (checked with memtest, while in SUM it can test 97% of you RAM including lower part not available another way), I counsel Applejack too which enables you to check drives, permissions, clean caches, check preferences while in SUM. When I tried the AHT i went into something I found out is a commun bug instead of launching AHT i ended up in OF with this: CODE Invalid memory access at %SRR0: 000000000.6000d300 %SRR1: 100000000.40003030 Pretty impressive… but not meaning a lot. As I knew my RAM was ok (even bought 1 GB more to check), the drives too, I tried in turn without the DVD burner, each SATA drives. I had no graphic card to try but overall it looks bad, only the hot pot, the temp sensors, the motherboard and the CPU are left, and no Applecare I have either (sorry Mr Apple, too expensive and never a mac has left me this way, NEVER). It's at the repairshop here in Paris since yesterday, and I ressucitated ye olde timer BW G3 last evening. I'll buy tomorrow a FW external enclosure for the SATA drive on which I had saved my keychains/mail/etc as here I have no mail (it's my old mail database but I'm under tiger for a few months now and the databases are not compatible). So in the end, it looks like it's something on the motherboard wich is blown in some way, so it'll $$$ in the end  I know chips/components do die, but it's heartbrake, this was a fabulous computer. I'll know for sure in ten days.Really, I need a macbook…  (and no money for it s…t!)
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Fri 23 Jun 2006, 03:07
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Moderator In Chief (MIC) Group: Editors Posts: 15,189 Joined: 23-Dec 01 From: Paris - FR Member No.: 2,758 |
It's the CPU, and the bill will be 470.27€, which is half the price of the G5 second hand now…
sigh!Now I should have it next week YEAH! -------------------- Our Classifeds • Nos petites annonces • Terms Of Service / Conditions d'Utilisation • Forum Rules / Règles des Forums • MacMusic.Org & SETI@Home
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Sat 1 Jul 2006, 00:28
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QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ Fri 23 Jun 2006, 02:07)  It's the CPU, and the bill will be 470.27€, which is half the price of the G5 second hand now… sigh!Now I should have it next week YEAH! Why don't you have Applecare? With Applecare, your repair would be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. |
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lepetitmartien My G5 Is Under Repair… Wed 7 Jun 2006, 23:38
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Phone call f... Tue 20 Jun 2006, 04:02
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