Huge G5 Problems

Well, here my sad story:
In 2004 I bought a PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5 GHz, 1GB RAM (2x 512MB), ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256MB.
Approx. One year later I decided to upgrade my G5 with additional 2 GB RAM to 3GB. Being aware of the fact that Apple hardware is quite restrictive with what you put in I ordered these "extra high quality value RAM from Corsair that was extra manufactured for exactly and solely for this G5 I was owning and cost a fortune".
I placed the bricks as specified in pairs after the existing ones. As I started up I realized that the bricks in socket 2 weren't recognized. I tried several PMU-resets, PRAM-retets etc. but slot 2 was not recognized, so I decided to leave that slots free and placed the bricks in slot 3 and 4 respectively. After I started up again, the G5 recognized all my 3GB. Tip top. For some months.
After half a year or so I stumbled upon the fact that my G5 told me about having 2.5 GB of RAM. Checking the System Profiler Bank 3 (on both sides) were reported to only have 256 MB each. After resetting PRAM the whole 3GB were recognized again. But every now and then these 512 MB bricks were downgraded to 256 MB until it never stated them as 512 MB anymore. From then on I just lived with the fact that I lost 512MB... oh well.
The real troubles began when I wanted to install 10.5. I got several "Failed to verify the contents of Essentials.pkg" etc errors during install. The errors were quite random until I finally got that cat running on the G5. First I thought this was a software issue with Leopard as many persons here reported same problems with G5's. But when I installed the Adobe CS3 package I got several random failures as well during install. The same with the Developer Tools. Each time downloaded it told about another corrupt package.
So this was the time I decided to replace all my bricks with fresh ones so I got 8 x 512 MB from the same brand thinking that this might also solve that slot-2-not-recognized problem. But that was obviously too optimistic thinking.
Slot 2 was still stated as being empty. But the other slots were perfectly recognized and my G5 was running smoothly with 3GB again. Mo more package verification failures and random errors with disk images etc anymore. Perfect. I thought.
After some hours of happily working with Photoshop, Illustrator (especially since the general performance of these programs and others have been significantly improved under Leopard) I got Photoshop crashed as I switched back to it. I couldn't relaunch it anymore so I tried to restart my machine what resulted in a kernel-panic. After restart several things seemed very odd - I got crashes everywhere and after the third restart I decided to test my memory with memtest from the FreeBSD repository. That tool showed me a whole bunch of errors just at the first test stating that expected memory and given memory (BUFA & BUFB) didn't match. ****, I thought, the RAM damaged already??
I gave it a second try and reset the PMU unit, booted up in Single User Mode and ran memtest again. This time the test passed. But after approx. one hour of work things were getting very odd again and despite my calm nature I used swear-words in combination with names of christian deities in a not very calm way what made my girlfriend check if I'm alright. I was but my G5 wasn't.
Now I tried a lot of things. I replaced all modules, checked every module separately and so on. Fact is that after resetting the PMU things work fine for an hour or so but then I usually get nasty kernel panics. A funny thing I noticed was when I was watching a Dr House episode with VLC, I suddenly got strange 'mutations' in the video. white dots appeared randomly and some decompression oddities appeared. The mutation (looked like radiation hitting a surface) got stronger until it also reached the sound track with "ticks" and ended in a kernel-panic.
Now, what could be wrong with my poor G5?
- Bad RAM again?
possible. But why are tests passed after PMU reset and only after hours of work it starts to fail again?
- Problem with the video card?
It would some kind of explain the video-playback oddities. But can RAM-test failures be connected with a malfunctioning video-card?
- Damaged CPU?
I think this would explain the video-playback oddity as well as RAM check failure. But then again why does a PMU reset fix that for an hour or more? Could it be a overheating problem? What is the max temp a G5 processor can operate under?
- Problem with the RAM slots
Obviously with the slot 2 on both sides. But could this result the other slots behave erratically as well - after 1 hour?
I would really appreciate your inputs on this one. what could I test to nail the problems down to a component? as I can't really bring that piece of heavy-metal to service easily since I don't have a driver license. The commuter service is good here in Zurich, CH but I just can't lift that nearly-a-ton from bus to bus and tram all the way to a Mac-service center . Also I can't afford really much right now so I'm really kind of forced to fix that thing myself.
I really hope that my beloved G5 has not turned into a $3'500 piece of bulk waste.
Sincerely,
Thomas

Hi comradeTJH,
I own a PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5GHz, 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256 MB, which I bought in 2004 too.
I have the same white dots problem that you have. During playback of some videos, white dots seem to appear and disappear randomly, in a kind of a noise effect. Those white dots also appear when compressing video (for instance, when using iDVD).
Everything else seems to be working fine for me: no kernel panics, no other symptoms. Leopard installed without problems.
I think that might be a video card problem. I tried removing the dust over it, but that did not work. I have not tried a PMU reset lately, but last time I did, it did not solve the problem. I have two displays attached to my G5, but using just one does not seem to make any difference.
My Apple's Hardware Test is not reporting any hardware failures regarding the video card.
From what I have read in Internet forums regarding this video card (also when used in PCs), the white dots problem could be caused by the card's overheating. This might be an explanation in my case, since I detected the card's fan is not spinning at a very high speed.
The ideal solution would be to order a new fan or even a new video card. However, it seems difficult find a suitable replacement and change the fan on the card. Buying another card is more feasible, but they are quite expensive and since you would be buying an AGP card, it would be already obsolete.
I hope that helps. Please, if you find another solution to this problem I would be very grateful if you could post it here.

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