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What is WRONG with my MAC G5?
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“Run DiskWarrior”
He has already done 2 erase and installs of the OS. Any corruption that disk warrior would find would have been wiped out by the erase.
Hindsight is always 1080p
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[Zane Barker] “He has already done 2 erase and installs of the OS. Any corruption that disk warrior would find would have been wiped out by the erase. “
Not at all Zane.
After a PERFECT install the system is a real mess.
If you run DW you will find some “30% of Items Out of Order”.
rafael -
I agree with Rafael. Run DiskWarrior. I run it once a month as preventive maintenance. BTW, my old G5 still works fine.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.2, Motion 4.0.2, Comp 3.5.2, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.2)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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Disk warrior won’t fix hardware issues, though.
This is looking like a hardware fault.
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Jeremy,
My first few months with that G5 were a real nightmare: a Kernel panic every 10 minutes (a huge list of people complaining about the same issue).
Sent back to Singapore and returned in the same conditions.
I bought DW and ran it and everything was fixed.
Sure it was a bug in Panther (or Tiger). Of course Apple never said a word, just fixed it.
Rafael -
Thanks for all the responses, guys. Hundred bucks for Disk Warrior? Or the same to take it back to an Apple dealer for another diagnostics test? Hmm. Lemme think.
Incidentally, I’ve been running Activity Monitor and the flash content on this site is maxing out my CPU usage. Literally 100% user. With nothing else running but Safari. Does this offer any clues? (I wish…)
chris
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“Incidentally, I’ve been running Activity Monitor and the flash content on this site is maxing out my CPU usage. Literally 100% user. With nothing else running but Safari. Does this offer any clues?”
That just goes to show everybody how crappy flash really is.
Hindsight is always 1080p
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I would run FSCK if you don’t have Disk Warrior. It’s free.
Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
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Alright Jim, I took your advice and ran fsck in single user mode. Strangely, the fans came on and roared like crazy during the process, which usually results in a crash. But no crash. Two tests though gave my Macintosh HD an OK.
I swear this webpage alone is eating up my computer’s performance. istat pro shows the cpu at 77% user, and no other applications are open. Does that sound indicative of video card, or processor, or logic board??? I’m leaning heavily towards this being a hardware issue now.
Chris
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If it is any consolation, I checked my activity monitor with Firefox on this machine and it is at 71% on Creative Cow. On my other G5 it started at 93 and is down to 44 but still fluctuating.
Perhaps trying some Final Cut Work and see what issues come up.
Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
http://www.commercialfactory.com
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