very long horror story - sorry :-( 17" imac g5, 1.8 ghz, 1.5 gb ram and a 150 gb hd - I've owned it for about a year or so, and it's been working fine until very recently, running 10.5 with all updates
it started with an unwillingness to wake up from sleep, it was occasional and typically when I'd been playing a game that tends to get the fans up running searched a bit around but only found some hints that the power supply might be dying - nothing to do but wait and see however, I thought it a good idea to try and reset the thingy - sorry, can't remember the name of it, but the pulle the plug and push the power button procedure also checked the hd with the system disk utility and it seemed fine, so repaired permissions - there was a lot of out of order there then it seemed happy again and the don't want to wake up vanished yesterday - out of the blue, while surfing around, it became unresponsive and the beach ball just turned and turned. tried to force quit the browser, but it would not - so power button beach ball and power button again - 2-3 times more after that it came up with a huuuuuuge dock, with apps in it I had deleted from there a long time ago, question marks for the apps I'd deleted, and all apps I've put there was gone... normal shut down from the menu made everything disappear from the desktop... up again in that weird mode and it froze as soon as I tried to open a finder window tried booting in safe mode - now it asked for password, which I normally don't use but after that, all I got was an empty desktop - oh and the fans running full speed - power button time to get out the 10.5 install disk me thinks - it got spat out of there like a rocket one more time, and it stayed in and I could get to the disk utility which stated the hd was fine... well ok, but maybe those permissions could do with some repairs then - on we go after some 2 hours I deem the task fruitless and (guess that was stupid) aborted... and... check disk now reports it not good - several red lines about invalid extent entry and files supposed to 4k being 2gb - all ending up with "the volume could not be repaired" hmmm - times to start the old beige and do some yahooing (google crashes my old netscape) found the fsck command and gave it a try - after 5 times with the exact same errors turning up an ending with "could not be repaired", "file system was modified", I went to bed and decided to rease and start over today so, a new day and on with the task of trying to save my audio books and downloads - thank god for the firewire target mode and my old beige after some hours of saving files (no errors or hangs or anything), I went on to the fresh install task phew - not starting good still spitting out the 10.5 disk - oh well, I like 10.4 better, and so does the imac it seems I zeroed the hd and now it was reportedly fino, so install procedure on we go - weed out all the unnecesary printers and laguages - go... until... almost done - sorry en error, try again, and again, and again - error, error, error - even tried the 10.5 again also error, with 10.5 it gave me a strange message about not liking the package - or something oh the disk errors came back, erased it again - install error again in the hope of some magic advice and tia /tina -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
