Hi all, I started up my old G5 to do some slide scanning today but it seems to be on the blink. At first I had some strange problems communicating with the scanner but it came right and I got a couple of scans done.
I left the machine to idle while I had lunch but when I came back it had frozen up and I had to hold the power button down to get it to shut down. Now it won't start up :( The fans and hard drives spin up but that's it. No chime, no signal to the display. The power LED only lights when I press the power button. I think it was lighting up at first, but it stopped after I did the PMU reset (see below). I've tried re-seating the video card and the memory, tried starting it with the hard drives unplugged, and also with a different monitor connected to the other port on the video card. I'm not able to get it to respond. I've tried resetting the PMU / SMU using these instructions, with no luck. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1436 I also followed the procedure to reset the PRAM but I didn't hold much hope. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 I'm now at the conclusion that the power supply is probably faulty. Do any of our resident Mac experts have any further suggestions? It's a first-gen single-processor 1.6GHz G5. I just checked and it's just a couple of weeks over 10 years old! I've wondered if it would be worth replacing the battery on the motherboard but I'm not really sure. I've only kept that machine around because it has no resale value and Minolta didn't release drivers for later OS versions because they exited the scanner business. I couldn't stand Vuescan when I last tried it so I don't really want to go down that route. I guess the good thing about it having no resale value is that I can replace it cheaply through the secondhand market. Unfortunately I was just getting started on a project to scan some really old glass-plate slides for someone :( Might have to resort to a macro lens and a light box. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
