G5 Fan Stalls FCP

[Jake H]

Your computer is overheating. Try working at cooler times of the day, using air conditioning, keep the cpu out of tight quarters so it can breathe, or for the low-budge fix get a cheap room fan and aim it at the CPU while you use it.

[Michael Ruiz]

Thank You.
I had a feeling about the heat. I’ve been working 15hr days on it.
I have a fan on it right now.
Thanks for your Info.
Michael

[Walter Biscardi]

[mr2005] “I have a fan on it right now.”

What’s the temp in the room where the G5 is located? I never let the room get above 74 degrees and normally it’s more like 72 at the highest. Also there is 3 feet of clearance behind the G5 with nothing in front of it to allow lots of airflow.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Michael Ruiz]

Thanks for replying Walter,
I posted another posting under G5 stalling.
I think the area is getting to warm around the G5.
Has this happened to you before?

[Walter Biscardi]

A G5 is one of the hottest running computers around. They require a lot of airflow and should be maintained in a cool room for maximum performance.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Michael Ruiz]

Thank You Walter…
i appreciate you responding to my Post.

Michael

[Francois Stark]

Somehow I have a feeling all of you have it wrong…

This sounds like a lopsided description of a classic G5 crash. It happens occasionally – just like sh*t.

All that happens is that the G5 has a solid crash, or freeze-up, so the on-board systems controlling the fan speed defaults back to full speed to protect the CPU. So the fans spin up (immediately) AFTER the G5 freezes. Not the other way around. Remember, the fans take about two seconds to spin up to full speed, so it could seem the other way around. Could this be a good description of what happened in this case?

Which means the crash had nothing to do with the room temp. It was just another crash. I must say, it’s been at least two months since I’ve had one of those fan-speedup crashes – on 7 macs (5 G5’s and 4 G4’s).

If it happens regularly you have a faulty motherboard or CPU or Ram – take it back to apple – they will look at the crash logs and decide what caused it. We had one G5 that crashed regularly for about three months while we swopped everything else (all non-apple hardware – pro tools HD etc.); eventually Apple replaced the motherboard and CPU (Single 1.8 G5) and only then did the problems stop.

Regards
Francois