Great down to earth solution to a high tech problem! Wonderful stuff that CRC and related products. One of the early ones carried the labelling "Makes things go again!" How true Severin Crisp On 25/05/2012, at 2:57 PM, Kevin Lock wrote:
> Ronni and Robert , > > I have tried all your suggestions and figured that it is a power button > which is the problem. I gave it a bit of a squirt with CRC and so far > it hasn't been silly and started up by itself. > > It is a single 1.8mhz which I figure is one of the early ones. It > doesn't appear to have a Cuda button. > > So far so good. I will let you know how it goes over a week. I don't > want to give it to someone and then have calls about problems. > > Regards, > > > Kev > > > > > On 25/05/12 6:11 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: >> Hi Kevin, >> >> I've just got back in. >> You have not mentioned what year the G5 is, but try: >> Reset SMU or PMU on the G5 >> >> How to reset the SMU on a Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) or Power Mac G5 (Late >> 2005) >> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1436?viewlocale=en_US >> >> Resetting PMU on Power Mac G5, Power Mac G4, Power Macintosh G3 >> <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939?viewlocale=en_US> >> >> Worth a try. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ronni >> >> On 25/05/2012, at 11:45 AM, Kevin Lock wrote: >> >>> Ronni, >>> >>> did a DW scan and tried your suggestions to no avail. I now think it >>> is a problem with the start button because as I plugged in the power >>> cord back in, it started without pressing the start button. I will look >>> at replacing the button with one from a U/S G5 I have here. >>> >>> Report back later. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Kevin >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings& Unsubscribe >> -<http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> ________________________________________________________ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au ________________________________________________________ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
