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G5 freezing up
Hey everybody…so basically I’ve had my G5 dual 2.0 since they came out, never had any issues with freezing. All of a sudden, it’s been freezing up on me like crazy. It started off every hour or so, then ever minute or so, and now it barely makes it past startup, if at all, before it locks up. I haven’t added any new hardware lately. I only use Final Cut pro on this machine. ANYONE have any ideas at all? It’s so frustrating. Not sure if this helps anyone, but after it freezes, the fans start speeding up until they’re going real loud and fast, and continue until I force a shutdown. Any thoughts or input would be awesome. Thanks everyone!
btw i live in indonesia, so i think it might be power related.
ps. i know it’s not really FCP related, but i could your help. thanks
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3 Replies
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Try any and all hardware debugging software you can get your hands on. The G5 came with a hardware test disk, find it, run it five or six times. Get ready to spend an hour on the phone with Apple. Other hardware testing apps are out there, try versiontracker.com.
The fans pumping up is a sign of some possibly horrible things but not necessarily anything that can’t be cured or fixed.
Could be the motherboard, could be the graphics card, could be a simple OS issue.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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I had a similar problem with my new g5 quad core – the os went berserk, then itwouldn’t boot, and each time the fans went crazy. I was sure it was a hardware. Turned out to be an OS problem, and apple tech support had me reinstall my system and it was fine. The fans go nuts when the hardware can’t commnunicate with the OS for some reason. The apple tech also advised me to shut down at the end of the day, as opposed to sleep, which he said clogged up the system cache. Wish I had more info, but I’m just coming over to mac, best of luck.
Stu
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Stu, thanks for the non-panic contribution.
There are so many things that can go wrong, this adds some hope that it might be minor.bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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