Got my G5 back from the apple specialist (A Fixed Logicboard?)
So Just got my g5 back from the apple repair place. The computer had a problem with its logicboard, just spent a sh%t load on getting that repaired...
So bring it home, update the latest mac software, as i was burning a scratched cd-r, it stopped and said some kinda mac error, (probably something like the cd is unreadable, which makes sense) right then is when it froze... not even a force quit could save it. Restarted it no problem... played a game, an hour or two later, out of nowhere it did another ultimate freeze... Restarted it, now its not even loading, just still on the apple logo. This is what happend when the apple genius guys did a diagnostic on it originally before getting the new logicboard...
So first thing I will talk with the repair place see why its doing this again... But what do you think it is? Another bad Logicboard? I know its not a HD problem, but it might be a processor, right?
What do all of you guys think?
Thanks soooo much for your time!
If what you are seeing is a boot that only goes as far as the Apple logo, but never starts the spinning gear, then you've got what I had this last weekend...
What's happening in the sequence is BootX has checked the basics of your hardware and found things working by its quick test. It's not exhaustive, but it's not trivial either.
Then BootX transfers control to the boot code on the disk (I believe in a fixed location on the disk). That puts the Apple logo on the screen.
Then it starts to load drivers, and puts the spinning gear up.
If you never see the spinning gear, I would strongly suspect you have a boot disk problem. Likely the logical structure of the volume has a problem; possibly there are also surface problems on the disk itself.
Try starting up while holding the "Option" key down, this should give you a choice of drives to boot from. If you have the APP or Tech Tool disk, that's a good one to put in the CD drawer. Try a disk test from inside there, or if you don't have those, use the OS X install disk and run a verify from Disk Utility.
Write back and let us know how things progress.
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