G5 Dual 2GHz refuses to boot on AirPort Extreme Card Installation?
I was wondering if anyone has heard of this before. I just got an AirPort Extreme Card from Apple that has been refurbished. I installed it in my G5 and then on power-on, the system hangs before the chime even sounds? I remove it and everything is back to normal...Has this happened to anyone and is there something I am doing wrong? I know that the card is probably defective but I want to see if there is any alternatives than sending it back to Apple for a look-see...
Thanks!
Hi macomrade-
First, try resetting the PRAM: Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
If that doesn't do it, follow the correct procedure for your machine and reset the SMU: How to reset the SMU on a Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) or Power Mac G5 (Late 2005)
If you still have no joy then send the card back.
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck
Similar Messages
-
AirPort Extreme card installation problem
I recently bought an airport extreme card to put in my eMac (1.42 ghz G4). I follow the instructions to the letter for installation, but whenever I try to turn the computer on after installation, it sounds the 'turn-on' chord and then just sits there, black screen, power light on, never getting past that point. if i shut down and take the card out, it turns on just fine, everything works. I have all the latest software updates, installed the airport software that came with the card. what could possibly be wrong?
Most folks that report problems with the installation
of the AirPort Extreme cards find that they don't
have the card fully in place. There should be a
"click" when the card is firmly seated in the slot.
Hi. I'm facing same problem. My eMac doesn't start. I pushed as hard as I can the AirPort in the slot. It seems fitting well. As soon as I remove the card it start like a dream. I'll try again after reading your comment, but I am nervous. What if I break the housing? -
No boot with airport extreme card installed
a little history have had the no chime, no lower slot, memory problem fixed once under applecare. they replaced the logic board. much later the same problem has returned, but now i'm way out of warranty. so i removed the 500 mb sticks from both slots and installed a 1 gig in the upper slot. chime returned and computer normally until now. suddenly it will only boot if at all once in ten times to firmware and gives me the choice to type shut down or mac-boot. typing the latter also shuts down the computer. I learned that removing the airport card returns the computer to normal operation but with wifi of coarse. i can plug directly into the cable modem and internet then also works. i have tried all an known good airport with the same results. removing the airport card seems to be the only way to get it to boot. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks
Since there seems to be a hardware problem where your Powerbook won't work with even a good Airport card, you could take it out and install a separate wireless card in the card slot accessible from the outside of the Powerbook. If you google "cardbus mac wireless card" you'll find some choices.
-
Airport extreme card installation
So, I'm probably an idiot but I have followed the instructions perfectly, but for some reason I can not get the card to firmly hold into its slot (unless it's flipped upside down. Is there some stupid little trick I'm missing??
The instructions in www.apple.com/support/emac/doityourself/ seem to indicate that the card goes in upside down.
-
Setting WPA security on an Airport Extreme Card
Hi all I’m a newbie to the wonderful world of MACs having just purchased a dual 2.3 G5 incorporating an Airport Extreme card.
Now, in my simplistic world I figured that I could use the G5 connected to the internet via an ethernet router to act as a base station and allow 2 PC laptops to have wireless internet access too. Also, it would be good to allow these laptops to share the printer connected to the G5 and, absolutely ideally, share files too.
The internet sharing part of this all this works fine up to a point – that point being until I try to secure the wireless network! I’ve tried using the WEP solution (in both 64 and 128 bit modes) but the laptops just won’t connect, even though they can both actually see the network. I also understand that WPA is more secure than WEP anyway so I thought I might try that instead. Trouble is, I can't find where I can set this up for the AE Card.
So basically – could anyone tell me, in simple terms, whether I can use just an Airport Extreme CARD (rather than a full Base Station) to give me WPA security in the setup that I’m trying to create?
It seems that the card itself DOES support WPA if it’s connecting to an already-enabled network, but all I can find in the configuration options for the card is the WEP security (which I can’t get to work AT ALL!) I tried using the Airport Admin Utility to set WPA-Personal mode (which I understand is equivalent to WPA-PSK mode?) but that only seems to be for the Base Station.
I have spent the last 2 days trawling through as much information as I can find (including on these discussion pages) and still cannot find an answer.
If anyone’s still reading this rather long post and could offer any help at all, I’d be very grateful indeed.
Many thanks in advance,
Andy
PS I LOVE the MAC!!!I need to set the network id to 10.10.1.1 will a new airport extreme do this?
Sorry, but no.
The AirPort can only be set to 10.0.x.x, 192.168.x.x or 172.16.x.x -
Airport Extreme card does not see any networks...help!
I have a home network that is working fine - 2 linksys routers with WDS set up... it all works great - an Ibook g4 running 10.3 and has an Airport Extreme card connects flawlessly everyday. As does an old G4 powerbook with an old airport card.
however, I have this dual g4 with 10.4.3 running, and a recently-installed airport extreme card.
When I turn airport "on" it never sees our network. And it doesn't see my neighbors' networks, either, which are also always visible.
I can, howevr, connect via ethernet to the router that is somewhat nearby. that networking is fine...I can get on wired, but not wirelessly.
I've installed the 2005-1 update, and have run Software Update as well to see if there are any other patches/updates necesary. so as far as I can tell, I am up to date.
system profiler says:
Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme
Wireless Card Locale: USA
Wireless Card Firmware Version: 404.2 (3.90.34.0.p16)
Current Wireless Network: wireless network not available
and in the extensions section for the airport, it says:
Version: 4.0.4
Last Modified: 11/20/05 9:55 AM
Get Info String: 4.0.4, Copyright © 2002 - 2005 Apple Computer, Inc., All Rights Reserved
Location: /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext
kext Version: 404.2
Load Address: 0x39738000
Valid: Yes
Authentic: Yes
Dependencies: Satisfied
Integrity: Correct
I am at a loss. Is there anything else I can do before writing off the card as a bad card - or perhaps the logic board is faulty?
I hope there is a simple solution to this. I appreciate your expert help.Go back and recheck the Airport Extreme card installation. Make sure you plugged the connector for the internal Airport antenna into its socket on the Airport Extreme card itself - and make sure the plug is fully seated into its socket (none of the metal sleave should be showing).
-
Setting up airport extreme card and airport extreme base station
I have an ibook G4 about 3 years old with osx10.4.10 recently installed. I have recently bought an airport extreme card and have also bought an airport extreme base station.
There seems to be a problem with the set up of the card. It does not seem to find any wireless networks at all, including the base station. The base station seems to be working as I went through setting this up with Apple phone support and we managed to do it by connecting the laptop to the base station with an ethernet cable.
I think the problem is with the card. I think I need to reinstall and set up the card again from scratch, but can't figure out how to do this -aiport utility and airport setup assistant don't seem to help here as they take you straight to the stage of setting up a base station. I seem to remember when I originally installed the card for the very first time (before attempting to set up the base station) that it did find other wireless networks, so I don't think there is a physical problem with the card.
Any suggestions on getting the card working appreciated.
Many thanksHello bblairlondon. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
First, verify if OS X "recognizes" the card, by using the System Profiler utility. Select the AirPort Card option under Network in the column on the left. The "Wireless Card Type" should be "AirPort Extreme (nxnnnn, nxnnnn)."
If no card appears, I suggest that you double-check your AirPort Extreme Card installation by using the following Apple Tech article: iBook G4: CIP Instructions
If the card does appear, then try the following ...
Reset the PRAM
o Shut down the computer.
o Turn on the computer.
o Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
o Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
o Release the keys.
(ref: Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM) -
I have an Apple Power Mac G5 Dual 2.3 GHz/6GB RAM/500GB HDD/Superdrive PowerPC Desktop and just bought an Airport Extreme card for it. The card is recognized but will not see the in-house network. This is a pre-intel computer. Do I need an additional antennae? If so, which one because my research is confusing me about what is supposed to work with this computer.
Please check out the following Apple Support article to see if your particular Power Mac model supports an external Wi-Fi antenna.
-
PB does not boot UNLESS I remove Airport Extreme Card
My 15" PowerBook G4 will not boot unless I remove the Airport Extreme Card. I doubt there is a problem with the card itself. Could it be an issue related to the internal components that the card plugs in to? I read on another forum that my issue could be a faulty connection between the card and the logic board (part no.821-0352-A).
Thanks for your reply, i totally agree and i have never had a issue with toshiba warranties before usually they are very good and i reccomend toshiba aftersales service to all our clients.
My only concern is that they didnt check it properly last time and if they dont find a fault this time they will be charging me 80 plus vat to get my laptop back according to the toshiba rep. This is not a fault that happens during normal operation and takes hours to replicate if they dont then they wont find the fault.
Fingers crossed they find it this time otherwise i may have a battle on my hands. -
after installing airport extreme card into g4 ibook 1.07ghz 512 ram it will only boot to open firmware, any ideas why? please help!
Hi David,
Have you done a PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
In fact, do 3 in a row, takes a bit of time.
Tried resetting the PMU for PB/iB?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 -
Is the airport extreme card incompatible with my powermac G5 dual 2 GHz?
I have installed an airport extreme card into my powermac G5 dual 2 GHz. It will only detect my router if it's in the same room and even then it has a very weak signal. Any suggestions?
You need both for it to work, but don't you have the card already?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_kw=Apple&_kw=Airport&_kw=Antenna&_kw=mac&_kw=g 5 -
Installing AIrport Extreme card (which one? and WHERE?) in Dual 1.8 G5
I'm having an incredibly frustrating time trying to check out this (used) G5 which I thought, up until yesterday, might replace my G4 MDD. (Never mind that any topic I run a search for on the support.apple website returns NO results. Is it my antediluvian 10.3.9 and Safari 1.x--newest possible for that OS? But I digress...)
I keep running in a circle of Google search results that keep bringing me to a .pdf showing an AE card installation on a single processor G5. While not vividly clear in the illustration, the architecture seems to be different. I don't see the same "landmark" components here as in my G5. My Apple Support search difficulties have frustrated a search for a manual for this model.
Also I'm just now learning of the necessity of the Rube Goldberg-ian additional antenna that seems to be required. (As it sits, the G5 is about 3 feet away from the base station, but I guess I'll have to play along anyway and get one.) Having used an Airport card on a pre-Cambrian white iBook G3 >>>without any bloody antenna<<<, I find this too depressing to be laughable. ("...strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." --NASHVILLE, 1975; Robert Altman, dir.)
I'm under the assumption that this beast came BEFORE the late 2005 makeover that necessitates the Airport and Bluetooth combination card. Please correct if I'm wrong about this.
The card I bought on eBay is Model A1026 EMC No. 1951 (thinking an Airport Extreme Card is an Airport Extreme Card is an Airport Extreme Card...ain't that rich!)
Computer is YM425(XXXXXX) 1.8 GHz DP/256MB 400 80GB/SD/G5200/56K
I did the installation of the Airport (after having uninformedly bought an AE card first) card on the iBook, but I can't begin to see where one goes on the G5 desktop. I don't even see the connector cable that goes in the back of the card.
I feel like my good intentions have landed me at Alice's tea table while hardly being on the cutting edge of anything. I'm a sheet of paper's width (see below) from just jettisoning this thing back to Craigslist whence I fetched it.
(Although I've long waved the banner of "Think Different" superiority, I'm beginning there's not a sheet of paper's width of difference between the respective byzantine frustrations of Planet Jobs and Planet Gates. At least I didn't make the pricey leap all the way into the MacPro rabbit hole...)
To sum up: which AE card, where does it go, what else isn't Apple telling me and are there any specific links?Hi, and a Warm Welcome to Apple Discussions and the Power Mac G5 Forum!
From the details you have given, your G5 requires the Airport Extreme! card
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore?productLearnMore=M8881
The installation instructions are here
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/pdf/g5/apec_c.pdf
The antenna cables and connectors are pre-installed in G5s. The Airport Extreme! antenna connector, with the brass tip, is shown clearly if you click on photo #4 here
http://tersus.no/bluetooth/
(They are the Bluetooth instructions - the photo is for identification only)
You will need an antenna
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86413
which should have been in the G5 packaging (originally) - but can usually be picked up on eBay - or here
http://www.mac-pro.com/Airport-Extreme-External-Antenna-for-Power-Mac-G5-Tower?s c=2&category=7286
if not.
There is a G5 manual here
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/PowerMacG5_UserGuide.pdf
Please post again if you have any questions. Good Luck. -
20" iMac g4 won't boot after installing airport extreme card
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=26237
This document shows a card that looks different from my card. The antenna is in the center in the picture and my card has the antenna to the side. The card seem a little smaller than the slot but it does go in and seats ok.
Do I need an old style card? I can't find anything but the Airport Extreme card in the apple store.
Thanks,
LarryHi!
...yes, the 20" iMac G4 takes the original Apple Airport card (not extreme)
you can get a decent one + Warranty here...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Apple/M7600LLE/ -
For the last three days I have had issues with my G5 dual 2GHz and OS X 10.4.2, the latest updates to Airport software and firmware.
The signal strength meter in the menu bar or in Internet Connect is greyed out and the connection cannot be made -- eventually it gets to the point where the G5 cannot even remember any of my precvious connections. The Macwireless.com widget shows the connection and signal strength as bouncing from 0 to about 70% for all connections that are still recognized, with each location bouncing from the top of the list to the bottom and then sometimes disappearing altogether. After a short while the locations don't reappear... Once they're gone, they're pretty much gone without a trace (Airport Admin either cannot connect to the Airport, telling me an error occurred while trying to access it, or it doesn't see anything to get an error message from).
My G4 sits right next to the G5 and has shown no problems. Strangely, after a full day trying to troubleshoot this, the G5 started up today at full signal strength -- I'm using it now to write this message! Nothing has changed on this machine in the past week, except for me trying to get the Airport Extreme Card to function as it had for the month or two I've had it. Yesterday I lost connection altogether -- neither restarting the Mac nor a full shut down, wait a minute or two, restart would restore my connection. At one point, I shut down the machine for about an hour while I reseated the AE Card and let the computer become room temp (roughly 70 F). Still no go...
After eliminating all the variables I could think of, I've come to the conclusion that the Airport card is probably bad -- possibly malfunctioning with heat build-up (?). Problem is, how do I show this problem to a tech? Especially since it's a half-hour drive to the closest Apple store and longer to a third-party Apple repair shop. And knowing that once it's been off for a while and is on a workbench, it will behave like all intermittently faulty equipment and work perfectly. :-/
If anyone has trouble shooting suggestions, or can help me determine for sure that the card is the problem, please help!Hi Julia,
Well, the card may have problems too, but I now think there's a software problem as others have suggested. It's odd because everything seemed fine for some time after applying the updates, so it appeared as if the card was bad or going bad. For me, I spent three days trying everything I could, including removing and re-seating the card, antenna wire and antenna, trying various configurations, resetting the Airport itself and so on. All to no avail.
On the last day, I had the strangest situation, where Mail could not see the Airport and could connect to nothing, but Safari was able to access the Internet! I used Safari to access sites I hadn't visited in months just to be sure I wasn't seeing cached versions of the pages... Eventually though, Safari lost contact, and that was it for the day.
After all that, the next day I turned on the Mac to see a solid connection that's been stable ever since except for the incident in my previous post where the Airport widgets knocked the connection out. Turning off those Widgets and closing Dashboard brought the connection back up immediately -- I haven't tried them again, and probably won't!.
Once I had the solid connection, I used Onyx to repair permissions, optimise the System and to empty the Network cache. I also deleted the various Locations I'd set up in the Network Preferences to get it back to just the one connection to choose from. If you're comfortable with Onyx (or Cocktail or one of the other utilities) you could try at least clearing the cache(s) and repairing permissions.
Have you tried a complete shut down and leaving the computer off overnight? Do you have anything set to open on startup that may try to connect with the Internet (like Mail or Safari)? Try removng them from your Startup Items (you can do this from the Dock -- click and hold on the icon and a mini menu should pop up with that option).
Have you looked at the info in System Profiler, and does it show the Airport card? (you can access System Profiler from the About This Mac item in the Apple Menu and clicking the button: More Info...) The card should show up under Network>Airpport Card.
Since you have a Powerbook, you have the option to take your computer to an Apple tech (Apple Genius at an Apple store, or to a dealer with a repair crew) and have them troubleshoot it. My guess is they'll end up reinstalling your OS and/or replacing the card... My G5 is far too heavy for me to throw it in the car -- and I found out the hard way yesterday that my computer is just 2 weeks out of warranty, so I'm ineligible for AppleCare. grrr... (my fault, but grrr...)
Let us know if anything good happens -- best of luck! -
Pioneer DVR-106D & Airport Extreme card conflict...
Bought this G5 back in Dec 2005, used, and everything works great. Until I added the Airport Extreme Card to it. Now the DVD drive will not acknowledge any disk placed in it. It spins, makes a couple odd noises, repeats this several times and then spits out the disk. Removed the Airport card and the dvd drive works fine.
System Profiler had no problem showing the drive profile, whether the airport card was in or not. It also shows the firmware version as being 5.0.7f0. Tech Tool Pro says the computer was built in Nov 2003.
Tried to do a firmware update but the program said it was not needed or that I needed OSX 10.3.9. Does this mean I'm going to have to re-install 10.3.9 to get a firmware update to see if this is the problem? Or am I missing something as far as the Airport and DVD are concerned?
Thanks...
G5 Dual 2Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1 GB Ram, 200 GB main HD, 300 GB secondary HD, Pioneer DVR-106D
Sorry, posted in the wrong section...Check the cables (flat and power) to the DVD drive. Make sure both plugs are pushed in all the way.
Maybe you are looking for
-
How do I have my wife's iphone 4s upload pics to the same icloud I use for with my 4s and ipad? Can seem to change her icloud ID to match mine.
-
This has happened several times now - first in FF 7.0, now 8.0. It's as if Firefox is concentrating on the existing tab, drops the info it's loading and just loads the homepage.
-
Hi BarbBouchard, I can fully understand how you feel when you made several calls to Godaddy and Microsoft but no one resolved the issue. I think the Go-daddy support sent you to Microsoft since they identified it as a pure Outlook desktop client side
-
i plugged my ipod into my mac and a window popped up saying that it was in recovery mode and needed to be restored. I didn't back up my music files. Am I doomed to lose them?
-
Install third party driver RT pxi
I have third party usb device and its driver software. when i install the driver on windows installled pxi chassis, system detects the driver. how do i install or access new usb device on RT OS.?