IMac G5 boots, and then goes to black screen
This is not my iMac, but a friend who is using this that she got from here son who upgraded to an Intel iMac. The hardware is a G5 20 iMac. I don't have any more information since it wont power on....or have the installation disks...
The symptoms are that the machine will power on, "bong" show the blue apple screen, then the spinning lines and then suddenly a black screen and nothing more. I booted to single user via Command-S and ran fsck to ensure the disk was clean. Ir reported no errors, but halfway through the check the fans came on full. Only having experienced an Inetl iMac's fans, they were very load. When the fsck finished (with no errors) the fans turned off again. When i exitied the shell to reboot, the same thing happened again. Black screen and not repsonse.
The fact that I can get to single user shell and check the disks points to most of it working, but I'm confused as to why it gets no further.
ANy help would be appreciated as she want to migrate from her current PC based workflow to a more reliable(!) one, but this isn't helping....
Thanks,
Jimmy
Thanks to the responders for their input. I was fearing the worst. However, it looks like the issue wasn't as serious as a broken capacitor. I don't understand why the following worked, as it's not as if the machine was always not working, but just started.
As part of the diagnostic process, the back was opened and then the memory reseated. After reboot this still failed. Then Command Option O F to get into open firmware and then
reset-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all
and the machine rebooted and came up again.
So far there have been no problems, but it looks like this was the fix.
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First of all I would like to say I'm very disappointed with Cisco/Linksys support. I made 6 phone calls and spent about 3 hours on hold and being connected to someone else over the course of about two weeks. The Tech supportin this particular case wa
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Excel 2010 SP2 opens files slowly after installing SP2
After installing SP2 Excel is opening files very slowly. Files can be on network share or locally, no matter. If Excel is already open, then the file opens fast as it has opened before. OS is Windows 7 64-bit, and Office Professional Plus is 32-bit.
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My Word 2003 is part of the Office 2003 that includes Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. This is installed on my PC even though I am connected to a network. When I attempt to "save" a file or "Access" another directory or file, in word or outloo
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I just downloaded more themes from Apple for my iDVD. Now the iDVD will not run. How do I fix this?
I just downloaded more themes from Apple for my iDVD. Now the iDVD will not run. How do I fix this?