Power supply going south??? JT
Sam Macomber wrote: > Computer in question is a 17" iMac G5 running 10.5.6 has been running > OS 10.5 for over 6 months flawlessly. This morning it started > crashing at random progressively getting worse. While it was still > functioning I ran disc utility disk checked out fine, repaired > permissions(was not much wrong). Ran apple hardware test passed all > tested on extended. After that it would not get past the blue start > up screen. zapped PRAM, booted into single user I ran fsck found > some errors, said it repaired them, still blue screen. target disk > mode worked, copied important data off computer. tried 10.5 > retail install DVD, blue screen. After several tries I got the > installer screen, selected language locked up button became all > pixelated and weird. tried booting off the HDD again got part of the > menu bar froze up. tried swapping out the RAM for a known good stick > from another machine, blue screen. Tried a firewire drive with a > bootable copy of 10.5.3, blue screen > > on blue screens I always get a working mouse, sometimes it gives me > the spinning color pinwheel. I noticed on the firewire drive even > after 10minutes it was still accessing the HDD but was obviously > locked up otherwise. > > put in the OE system install disk(10.4), booted and installed fine. > got to the welcome screen music plays but the video freezes. > reboot, same thing. also there are random incorrect pixels on the > screen (once a few green ones, second time some magenta ones) > > -sam > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
