Hello! My G5 Quad is in a mess. It all started a month ago when
suddenly booting my precious became a problem. When booting the DVD
drive ejects and a mouse problem occurs. At the login screen my mouse
is non functional, but I can login using the keyboard. When I reach
the Finder it gets worse. There a few startup programs appear and I
can mouse around but I cannot click away those programs or close the
windows. I've tried every keyboard and mouse in the house to no avail.
But since I am a resourceful guy I ripped the HD and put it in an
external enclosure connecting it to my MBP. When appearing on the
desktop I immediately get a warning: "I cannot use this disk. You can
still copy from it but I cannot write to it. Copy everything and
format the drive." Something like that.
DiskWarrior says that it finds overlapping files. I believe that
Alsoft says that you should write down the name and location of every
file and manually delete them. After 36 hours of using DW it has found
over 2000 overlapping files and there is still 450 GB to go... I
decided to try other routes first.
Then I tried Carbon Copy Cloner but all I got was my first kernel
panic on the new computer.
Did I give up? No!
I installed a new HD in my G5, put in the DVD for it and held down c
when booting. Sure enough the DVD was ejected and in the install
process there is a halt since the mouse is non clickable. Well that
clears things up a bit, didn't it? Now we "know" that it's not a
software problem!?
I have tried to zap the PRAM.
My G5 has had serious problems from the start. It has been to repair
shops 3 times because of fan problem (when booting all fans start to
roar at highest and loudest speed like a Boeing 747.)
What else can I try? I don't think that I will be purchasing a new
logic/motherboard for it. Or "mother modem" as a swedish magazine once
called it ;-))
Thanks in advance
Per-Anders
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