My PowerMac G5 will not start up.
There is no startup chime, no display and the fans speed up and sound like and airplane after about 30 seconds. Can someone help?
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.
How to reset the SMU/PMU on a Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) or Power Mac G5 (Late 2005) ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1436
Earlier G3, G4, G5 models...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939
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My mothers PowerMac G4 that will not start up. it gets to the gray screen with the apple logo and stays there. We have tried everything I can think of but nothing works, we did the PMU rest thing, tried the Disk Utility and got a message saying the “underlying task failed upon exit”, and lastly we have tried the archive and install thing it cut's out about 1/2 of the way. I’m out of ideas… help!
Side note: We can’t wipe the HD because she has a book, and photos she needs on that HD.Hi, midgear!
If you don't have another Mac to connect to, do you have a spare drive you could connect externally or install internally? If so, and if the drive will mount, you might install OS X on the spare drive and copy her Home folder to the spare, or boot OS 9 from disc and copy her user data to the spare drive. Once you secure her important files, you can try zeroing the data on the original drive and doing a fresh install of OS X, then restore her user data to it.
As John indicated, the principal focus should probably be to recover her user files, after which you can focus on the errant drive. DiskWarrior might solve the problem without the need for another drive or another Mac, depending on the type and extent of directory damage that has occurred. What are the specific error messages that Disk Utiity reports when run from the Tiger install disc? (These messages normally appear in red type before the "underlying task failed upon exit" message appears.) Also, it might be helpful to know what model G4 she owns, if you have that info.
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Hello,
I have a PowerMac G5 2.5GHZ Dual Processor (June 2004) that will not boot past the grey apple screen.
It will not get to a second chime by holding Command-Option-P-R at startup.
If I start up using Command-Option-O-F and enter reset-nvram (return) and reset-all (return) it freezes.
I have pressed the PMU button once.
It will start up using the hardware diagnostic disk and I can run the extended test multiple times (everything passes). When I press shut down or restart on the diagnostic screen, it freezes.
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I did run Disk warrior on the hard drive via Target Disk Mode and another computer.
Everything is disconnected from the computer except monitor, keyboard and mouse.
I have swapped the RAM with another identical computer that runs fine.
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Does anybody have an idea of where to look?
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oh and BTW...leaving the plastic door off and trying to reset PRAM worked 2 out of the 3 times for me. This is getting frustrating. Im gonna free up some drive space and see what happens. Let me know if/how the graphics card trick works. It's fairly ridiculous that so many of us have these same issues.
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I push the power button, and it turns on, but there is no startup chime, no video display, and after 30 seconds, the fans spin up. Any ideas?
G5 has these hardware issues:
-- bad capacitors on logic board
-- bad capacitors in power supply
-- badly soldered video chip
-- "There were several Mac models with flat panel displays that had bad displays.
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This affected PowerBooks as well. If that's the case, the rest of the computer
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I have a PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3GHz (early 2005) that has recently started to have issues. It froze a few times in the last week, and then would not boot up again. I dug out the original install disks, and was able to boot and run the Apple Hardware Test. The hardware test revealed a stick of RAM that was giving errors, so I removed the bad memory and it's mate (since they are required to be installed in pairs). Everything was great for a few hours, and then it froze up again. Had to hold the power button to force it to shut down. Once again it would not boot up - either a black screen, or stuck on the gray screen with the Apple Logo on it. Again was able to boot to Hardware Test from the install disk, and ran the Test again. This time it came back with no errors or problems. Ran it several times, all without any errors. I have reset the PMU, unplugged the power cord for several minutes, swapped memory around to different slots, unplugged everything but the monitor, keyboard and mouse, .... all to no avail. The computer will not start up. I tried to use the CD as a boot disk, but it hangs the same as when trying to boot from the hard drive. The only thing it will do is boot into Hardware Test mode (from the install disk), or Firewire Target Disk Mode (fortunately, since I can at least access my data and make some backups).
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Looking at these forums, it seems to be the time for Wallstreet power problems...
Anyway, I wonder if anyone can offer any advice...I've already tried much of what is suggested here.
I have a 233MHz 15" Wallstreet. This morning, the lid hinges finally gave out, so I decided to have a look at the problem - flipped the keyboard, decided against it, put it back. Now, the machine will not start.
As soon as power is connected (battery or power adapter), the fan comes on. And stays on. The computer will not start. I have tried resetting the PMU with battery in, out, power adapter connected, not connected, all combinations of the above. But as soon as any power is connected, on comes the fan. I have tried disconnecting the keyboard and re-seating the PMU ribbon cable. No luck.
Any other suggestions of things I could try? I am leaving power disconnected overnight, but if that does not work it would be nice to have some other ideas!
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Powermac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)opensource,
Hearing the startup chime (bong) is a good sign; this means the powerbook has had a successful initialization of the hardware necessary to boot up.
The Wallstreet can also have a long period of inactivity after the startup chime when performing a cold start. If you have 256MB of installed RAM, for example, you may wait as long as 30-40 seconds from the startup chime to first light of the display. This is normal; the Wallstreet is performing a memory test during this period. Give her a full minute until you decide there is going to be no start.
When you connect the power adapter and get the sleep light and a brief runup of the fan, this normally indicates you have a corrupted power manager. This usually happens when there is no working or charged main battery and the powerbook is unplugged from the power adapter for a period of time. The internal, rechargeable backup battery (PRAM battery) will run down and the power manager is usually corrupted.
Here is information on the PRAM battery:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30580
Please try this series of tests:
1. Connect the power adapter, then reset the power manager with the powerbook turned off. On the Wallstreet, you simultaneously press the 'shift-fn-ctrl-power' keys. If successfully done, you will see a brief flash of the sleep light.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449
2. Note if it has a normal startup.
3. Sleep the powerbook, then wake it. Is this normal?
4. Perform a restart and report your results.
If you leave the powerbook connected to the power adapter (and the power adapter is not turned off if connected to a power strip or switched outlet), does it always start normally?
Please also take a look in the System Profiler and see if it reports the 512K of backside L2 cache. You may have the 233MHz/0K CPU but I doubt it...it would be as slow as molasses.
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RhynoOk let me clarify this.
1)system crashed restarted and got the folder with the ?
2) tried to boot from the OS 9 CD no luck? it did not boot?
3)reset pram and still the flashing ?
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a couple of ideas too...
did you press the pmu button more than once?
Check to make sure the power cord is plugged in correctly etc.
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my brother just bought the new 27inch imac and was going to migrate from his power mac. his power mac is now dead. it will not start at all. any ideas
I decided to get a hard drive enclosure. I chose the Mercury Elite Pro...highly recommended in my Mac magazines.
The ones from OWC are easy to put drives in, even for a beginner. Easy to understand instructions and they back up their merchandise 100%, no questions asked. Now if a drive goes bad, I can put a new one in the enclosure in minutes (or put a bigger one in). Mine works great!
But make sure you get an enclosure that uses the PowerMac drive. Since you did not tell us what model he has we can not advise as to which one he needs.
Once the Migration is over, he can reformat the drive to GUID (for Intel) and use it as a backup drive....always needed! DALE -
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This morning most Modern Apps will not start on my system, including the Settings app. It seems to be a DCOM failure and seems directly related to this old thread.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7e6fe520-af09-4a38-b333-30ed5978f70c/control-panel-will-not-start-metro?forum=windowsdeveloperpreviewgeneral
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It's an i7 with 32 GB of RAM, fast SSD's etc. I don't believe this is a hardware problem in any way.
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Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Date: 19-Jun-2014 09:21:53
Event ID: 10001
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: SARSYS9\Michael Sargent
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<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM" Guid="{1B562E86-B7AA-4131-BADC-B6F3A001407E}" EventSourceName="DCOM" />
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<Data Name="param2">15612</Data>
<Data Name="param3">microsoft.windows.immersivecontrolpanel</Data>
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<Data Name="param5">Unavailable</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
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I really would appreciate some help resolving this issue. If I'm in the wrong forum, please move or suggest a more appropriate place.
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The MSDN Windows Store apps forums are for developers to discuss writing their own Windows Store apps.
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