Power Mac G5 won't start up and is beeping

Dear friends,
This morning, my Power Mac G5 started to beep. When I try to restart it, it beeps some more and also makes a clicking sound like a metronome.
The computer won't start up anymore. At startup, it displays a grey screen with a little folder in the center that flashes a question mark and a finder icon.
What is wrong with my excellent computer, and how do I fix it?
Marnie

Marnie Glickman-
Could be a variety of things, but most likely your hard drive is not happy. The flashing question mark means that the system is trying to find a working disk with a valid system on it. Should be the hard drive. Isn't.
Launch from the install DVD of the latest OSX system you have. Under the Apple Menu should be the Disk Utility. Launch it and try repairing your hard drive and see if that does the trick.
If not we dig deeper into this excellent problem.
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck

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Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
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File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
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Disk Identifier : disk0s3
Mount Point : /
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : ATA
Partition Type : Apple_HFS
Device Tree : first-boot/@0:3
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : 2C999ACE-B114-3460-8FE0-4013F539F100
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Can Repair Permissions : Yes
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
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Verify permissions for “Macintosh HD”
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Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Repair Permissions : Yes
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
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Partition Number : 3
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Thanks BDAqua, it does sound like a bad capacitor. The PSU is one that I put in a few years back when Apple was giving them out so as to reduce the fan noise. I kept the old one until last week when I sent it off to be recycled. I suppose it would be a tough job to find the bad capacitor and I doubt that I would have the skill to replace it even if I could find it. It's not like I really need this power mac since I have a Mac Pro 1,1 but I do occasionally want to run something in OS 9 and I do love this machine for what ever reason. There was remarkably little dust inside but I went over it with a can of dust remover.
Don

Power Mac G4 won't start - no activity except light.

I have a Power Mac G4 (1.25ghz, 2.25gb RAM, 80gb HDD) that is having somewhat of a strange problem. Basically it's not powering on at all, the light powers on when you push it but once released it goes out. No sound, no fans, no other activity. However if you hold the button in the light will stay on. It's almost identical to the problem this gentleman had:
http://www.ehmac.ca/mac-ipod-help-troubleshooting/8884-powermac-g4-wont-boot.htm l
No I have already tried reseating all the connections on the board (power, RAM, GPU, etc.), tried booting it with only the original 256mb DDR stick of RAM, booting with known working RAM, and resetting the PMU.
I am thinking at this point it may have to do with the PSU, but I thought I would post here to see if anyone had any other ideas. Apparently I am not the first person to have this issue and was wondering if anyone here had something similar, and how you resolved it. Thanks!

It can be due to the button itself. See this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27071
The power button lives on a separate component called the "front panel board." or "FPB" hereafter. They can fail, and are a much cheaper fix than a new PSU of logic board.
An Apple tech at a nearby college told me a way to test for a bad FPB. It requires that you find one of the original Apple USB keyboards that came with the first iMacs. It's model M2452 and, unlike newer keyboards, has a power button much like teh older Apple ADB boards.
The tech said that, when using the old iMac board, the power button overrides the buton on teh FPB and should start the computer if only the FPB board is bad. If the keyboard switch does not work, then there is something more expensive at fault.

Can anyone help me with my Imac that won't start up and continuously beeps

When I turn on my Imac it chimes then goes to a grey screen and starts a loud continuous beeping sound. It's only 6 months old - I put new memory in when I first got it and up until now there was no problem at all. Can anyone help me get it up and running again?
Thanks so much.

Thanks everyone for your kind advice. Reinstalled the RAM - still no difference - what I am getting is the start up chime, a grey screen, and then three loud beeps in a row then a pause then three beeps again and so on.
Tried starting up holding down D key - no joy. Any other suggestions gratefully received.
Thanks again.
rabbit 67

Power Mac G5 won't start, no video Cinema HD 23"

Hi everyone!
One day my PM G5 decided not to boot.
I tried every keyboard shortcut, I changed the video card - I have the original and another one - and the PRAM battery but no change.
The first time I started after I changed the PRAM battaery it eventualy turned on and I saw the gray screen with the Apple logo and the spinning weel but after 5 minutes I turned it off because it did not finished the booting.
After that nothing. I tried to changed and swap the 8gb memory around and the 2 video card also but it didn't even get to the chime sound.
Than I started without any video card and it sounded the mac was booting and I heard the HDD loading all the fans were OK and so on. I can confirm it without the display.
If I put any of the video card in and restart I don't even geting the booting sound. After 2 minutes the fans are spinning faster and faster.
Is it the logic board or something else? Any idea?
Thanks for your help!

Hello,
Have you blown the dust out of it lately, especially the Video card CPUs, & Power Supply?
Might be time to replace the PRAM Battery, 4 years is close to their lifespan, far less if ever without AC power, & can cause strange startup problems...
See which one your G5 has...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/CR2032/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/BAA36VPRAM/
If you're sure the RAM is good, try the Hair Dryer trick...
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=13240047#13240047
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15223603#15223603
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15499912#15499912
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15613068#15613068
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3270112
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16053892#16053892
No power light at all...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3692775?tstart=0
It can show on any G5, and even many other computers & electronic devices of the period.
http://www.macintouch.com/reliability/pmg5.html
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/power-macintosh-g5.html
And see this last one in particular...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16781690#16781690
Heat gun better...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3916312?tstart=0

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For the entire day my Powermac G5 (late2005) model has been performing poorly until eventually the screen freezes and a dialog box pops up that says I must hold down the power button and restart my computer. I think this has been happening since I installed the new security update. Now when I start it up it makes the start up noise. begins to load, then the screen becomes glitchy and it freezes up.
Please help me I have a lot of projects I am currently trying to work on and this came totally out of the blue. Is this something I am going to have to ship my computer in to fix? if so how long will it take?
thank you,
Austen
Powermac G5 (Late 2005) Mac OS X (10.3.5)

Hello! Personally, I'm not big on updates unless it's to fix a major problem I have but anyway I would boot from the install disc and run the repair disk function. If you get it running the first thing to do is get your data off in case it's not backed up (which I'm sure it is?). You might also try a safe boot by holding down the shift key at startup. Once you have your data off of it I'd probably download the combo updater so you can run the stand alone updater as opposed to running the software update control panel. Also be sure to repair permissions before and after any future updates. Post back and let us know how you are proceeding. Tom

Power Mac G5 won´t start

Hi,
when I went to bed last night I put the computer on sleep. This morning when I tried to make it start by moving the mouse and pressing the keys on the keyboard nothing happened. The led is on, but is on steady, it doesn´t slowly blink as usual.
I tried to turn it off, but the light doesn´t go off. I can´t hear the fans and the cd tray does not open. I unplugged it and then, the led did go off but when I plug it back in, the led comes right back on without any other sign that the CPU is working.
I tried to plug it into another mouth and it does exactly the same thing.
Any ideas?
Thanks for the help.

Is it the original battery?
I would check it first. When mine went, I had no response from my Mac at all; just a light on my power button; absolutely no boot at all.
Check out things in Texas Mac Man's Battery, PRAM, PMU tutorial on the subject. His tutorial is a little dated (don't believe it even mentions G5's) but the info in it, except SMU not being included, still applies. DALE

Power Mac G4 won't start any more

The g4 suddenly turned off. Pushing the start button will rev up the fan for 6 seconds and then turn off. Any suggestions. Defective power supply? Defective power button relay. Thanks
Powerbook G4 733 Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Hi, Diego -
Try resetting the PMU -
Article #95037 - G4 (AGP) - Resetting PMU
The procedure outlined in that article applies to all G4s from the G4 (AGP) and later, although the location of the PMU button will vary from model to model. For the location of the button on a G4 (DA) model -
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9686/qsdalogicbd8aa.jpg
Note the warning re pressing the button more than once.

POWER MAC G5 WON'T START !! error message: panic: we're hanging here

I recently made an update (several apps were listed with available updates(I was using tiger 10.4.10), next thing that happened (after the update was successfully completed) , a gray screen saying I should restart
my mac. When I did, I couldn't get into my OS!! instead a long list of techy messages appeared on the screen and the last one read: "panic...we're hanging here"
please help I'm supposed to edit an important video and now this happened!!! I read on another forum I should use my restore dvd something like that but I bought this machine on ebay, and it came with many CD's I don't know which is which, right now, what I did is that I put the tiger installation DVD, So I might re-install the whole OS...but I don't know if this is right (aren't I supposed to erase the damaged os first?)
Anyway I hope you can help me, I'm new at mac and I don't want to mess up my computer

First I would try a Disk Repair with Disk Utility, while booted on your Tiger disk.
Apple doc.#106214 covers this subject.
It sounds like you had a Kernel Panic, as shown in Apple doc.#106227.
If the Disk Repair doesn't do it, FJ has some good KP tips.
Or, do everything, in order, in Dr.Smokes Resolving Kernel Panics and don't leave out any steps (most used KP site in the forums).
Quote from Dr.Smoke "My FAQ is a roadmap: start at the beginning and work through to the end, following the instruction in the order specified, including the "If all else fails..." section if a cause or resolution is not found in an earlier troubleshooting step therein"
Cheers!
DALE

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