POWER PC G5 DUAL 2.5 GHZ FREEZING EVERYTIME THE FINDER OPENS.

I HAD TROUBLE SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING.
I HAVE A DUAL 2.5 GHZ G5 WITH 7 GB RAM. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A FLAWLESS INSTALL SINCE I HAVE A TOTAL OF 2.6 TB STORAGE. INSTEAD IT HAS BEEN A TOTAL NIGHTMARE, SLEEPLESS NIGHT WITH A CRASH-FREEZE AFTER FREEZE. I DID EVERYTHING POSSIBLE ERASE PRAM, TRY TO OPEN W/O XTENSIONS (DID NOT EVEN START THAT WAY) REINSTALL WITH ARCHIVE, INSTALL IN A SECOND HARD DRIVE OF MY FIVE ONES. NOW I AM A LITTLE DESPERATE . I SPOKE OVER AN HOUR TO APPLE SUPPORT. THEY RECOMMENDED THE INSTALL/ARCHIVE, AND GAVE ME A CASE # TO CALL BACK, IN CASE WOULD NOT WORK, WELL IT DID NOT WORK AND I HAD TO COME TO WORK. I NEED HELP.
THANKS

Me too! Dual 2Ghz with 3mb ram & multiple drives. I got 10.5 working - went well for about a week with occasional problems - keyboard keys sticking, occassionally hanging (have to shut down & startup using power key). Purchased a new keyboard thinking this was the difficulty + using bluetooth mighty mouse. Upgraded to 10.5.1 - experienced increased hangs. Zapped parameter ram (System started up on failed install on 2nd disk - grey screen of death - so inserted Leopard install disk, did permissions and disk check, chose startup disk - hung on choice. Since then have had repeated increasing slowness of system getting stuck on spotlight indexing which is highly variable - taking from 5 mins to 12hours to complete, meanwhile unable to open programmes. Occasionally able to open Mail but hangs, unable to force quit anything. Have tried to clear system by running chron, cleaning caches etc all to no avail. Tried reinstalling 10.5 (Archive & install)-hung in process, so now restore system from backup to 2nd disk with system on it, hangs at restart.
Now going to try shut down via power button again & see what happens. Failing this I'll do a erase and install (or try) - been trying to avoid this as a lot of very important work on the drive in question, had put faith in Backup & time machine so should be on third backup disk but as I can't access this have no way of knowing. Also heaps of software to reinstall! Frustrated as for the last 4 days have spent almost entire time trying to get computer running rather than doing work. This is costing me lots. Left with the conclusion if this doesn't work I'll have no choice but to purchase new computer in order to complete work.
Desperate for any assistance anyone could render. - Disks check out fine both using HD utility fsck etc.
Very interested in any progress you have on this via apple.
Cheers

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Mar 12 18:54:17 mwks-macbook-pro kernel[0]: NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception! status = 0xffff info32 = 0x3 = Fifo: Unknown Method Error
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Searched and searched and couldn't find what I am looking for. I am going to replace a totally full original 25o Gb Hard Drive in my G5 Power PC with two new 2 Tb Seagate Drives. What is the best 'manaul' procedure to back up the important stuff off the old drive? Might it make sense to install the first new drive in the 2nd Bay slot and transfer everything to that drive before removing the original old drive and installing the new drive? Also I want to upgrade to Leopard on this machine so I will be installing a clean version on the 1st Bay 2 Tb drive once it's installed. I guess I am looking for a check list of things to make sure I have backed them up, on another drive or in the manner I mentioned above, so I don't forget something. Hope someone out there can give me some advice or point me in the direction. Cheers.
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I am having problems with my system preferences freezing everytime it is opened

I have had this problem for months. and i want to know if there is something i can do without having to set up an appointment in store. Everytime i open my system preferences app, it freezes and i have to close it before i can even begin to do anything.....

That means either your graphics card does not support 3D or that there is a problem with your graphics drivers. See if your GPU maker has an update.
Error: "Graphics hardware not officially supported for 3D" | Photoshop CC, 13.1

Power mac G5 dual, startup and fan problem

Dear macpeople,
I have a Power mac G5 dual, 1.8 ghz, ramm 4.5GB. I guess from 2004. Only added more Ram three years ago. Never had any serious problem till a week ago. I have read a lot of similar questions and responses on my problem in this forum but till so far i have not been able to solve it.
Since a couple of weeks my mac sometimes did,nt recover from sleep. Starting up gave me some trouble because the fans were racing like **** and i had to restart several times to be able to boot normally. In the beginning just the upper fan next to de CD player ran fast and loud but now all of them get crazy at start up. Very rare times G5 is able to recover this (fans slowing down) and boot up, but this only in the safe mode.
I have cleaned the mac
i have resetted PRAM
i have used utility disk, all ok
i have unplugged for 40 min, reset in the machine, safe start up.
Checked memory
The only way to boot is in the safe mode. The fans start blowing fast but after 4 min. they slow down then the blue screen appears and mac builds up normally. But when i leave it for more than 1 hour in the sleep mode it will not recover, although i hear the normal sound of awaking/ accelerating disc. The screen keeps black and after a few minutes fans start blowing at full speed. Pushing 4 sec. the on/off button pulls it off.
I hope that someone can help me to solve this problem (me not being a tecnician at all) or that someone can give me a kind of diagnostic so that i can check the costs of profesional reparation. And start saving money for a new machine.
Any one any clue? Help would be very apreciated
Thnks

See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
Open console in Applications>Utilities, check the system log for the date/time of the last problem & the Startup right after that for clues.
Get Temperature Monitor to see if it's heat related...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12381/temperature-monitor
iStat Menus...
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
And/or iStat Pro...
http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/
If you have any temps in the 70°C/160°F range, that's likely it.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5 - Move Hard Drive to another G5??

Hi,
I'm using a Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5 w/ OS 10.5.8 with my Pro Tools 7.4.2 HD3 rig, 2 internal hard drives and tons of external FW hard drives. It's being hinky with me (every time I reboot/restart the Mac, I have to take the side cover off or it won't boot; wierdest problem ever), and being that I don't want to plunk down thousands of dollars on a new Mac and all new Pro Tools equipment, I'm hunting E-Bay for an exact duplicate of my Mac, of which there are plenty. Since PowerPC architecture is long dead, they are dirt cheap. No reason not to have a spare.
My questions are:
If I buy another Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5 machine, and swap the hard drive it comes with, and use my already functional hard drive (with the OS, Pro Tools and all related plug-ins installed), and move over my Pro Tools cards and 8 GB of RAM to the new(er) machine, will it boot up and work without me having to reformat/reinstall everything?
I also see numerous Power Mac G5 Dual 2.7 machines out there as well. What are the chances of doing the same as question 1 with this? I know the processor is different, but would my already formatted and functional hard drive care? I don't think this will work, but I have to ask.
If Question 2 is even possible, would upgrading to a Dual 2.7 even be worth it as far as noticeable speed improvement? Superior Drummer, EZ Drummer and EZ Keys are all real time plug-ins that need the Mac's processor/memory to work. They don't use the Pro Tools cards to work. So, would getting that extra 200 Mhz of processor power even matter?
The reason I ask is that reinstalling the OS and Pro Tools is not the issue; 4 hours and it's done. BUT, reinstalling Superior Drummer, EZ Drummer,and EZ Keys, along with the mountain of expansion packs, will literally take several days of work. If I could just plop my old hard drives and 8GB of RAM into a newly purchased G5 Dual 2.5 or 2.7, and not go through that, it would be AWESOME.
Thanks for any feedback on this.

Just got done making the transfer to the "new" Dual 2.7 G5 I bought off E-Bay. (yes, on Christmas Eve, because....well.... I have no life). Worked dead, solid perfect!!! I'm grinning from ear to ear right now.
I had to reset some pref's in Pro Tools (not an issue), Just got done running Pro Tools through its paces, and it works perfectly. All plug ins run (had to re-authorize Superior Drummer and some related plugins because it detected the change in system serial #, again not an issue). Other than that, it worked like it always has. I loaded every third party plug-in I could find, and every third party program I could find, and so far everything works without any issues. Only exception is Team Viewer locks up when I try to close it (have to Force Quit), but I couldn't care less right now. I use that twice a year if that, and just to have someone help me remotely.
Thanks for the info and help. This made my Holidays.

POWER PC G5 DUAL 2.5 GHZ FREEZING EVERYTIME THE FINDER OPENS.

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