I know this is a laptop forum, but I'm not associated with any other computer boards, so I hoped somebody might have an idea on here.
I've got a 1.8GHz single processor G5 tower, and when I woke up this morning the fans were spinning at an incredibly loud dB level. I turned the monitor on, and it had a message in the middle saying "Hold the power button to turn it off" and such.
I killed the power on it, let it sit 10 minutes, and tried to fire it up. I get a solid power light, the fans spin up like usual, hard drive spools up, etc. No chime though, and no video. After about a minute or so, the fans start to spool up, and within another minute they are as loud as they were this morning.
To define loud, I'm a guy that works at a machine shop, has no mufflers on any of my cars, and listen to death metal... and I still think my fan is loud.
Can any of you guys help, or should I find a proper place to ask?
Edit; I've tried resetting PRAM, and pressed the PMU button. I've also pulled all but two RAM sticks, disconnected extra drives, and looked around for burned spots but didn't see any.
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My best guess is heat, but you said no burn spots... sorry, wish i could help.
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Well, after I managed to order a dual processor tower on eBay, I tampered with it a bit more, re-seated everything, tightened everything, pressed the PMU button, and reset the PRAM, it came back on...
On the plus side, I'll have a dual processor G5... and I can sell this one. So I learned a lesson in patience... and when it comes to me having a tower at home, I've got none. -
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Well, it happened again unfortunately and nothing I did previously is making it better.
I get a chime now, but that may have been because my audio was muted previously before the crash..
And unfortunately because of the holidays, I won't have a new G5 here til after new years.
Don't suppose I could get help with a G5 tower problem?
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Modly, Dec 21, 2007.