Power Mac :: 'Solutions For Dead G5' BGA Hidden Blower G5
Jun 25, 2012
Several years ago I was interested in G5s and I saved this post called "Solutions for dead G5." Yesterday, I acquired a G5 dual proc 1.8 which works fine. I notice your forum is full of complaints re chipset or processor failures as mentioned in JeffDy's post mentioned above.My question is re prevention. JeffDy refers to "a small blower hidden behind the HD fan." I found his original post in your forum but the image links no longer work and I don't yet know my way around the G5 guts to find that fan.
Can you tell me, is this fan a worthy issue for prevention, should I locate it and clean it? After reading so many complaints about this sort of failure, is my XB4011NPQES vulnerable to BGA failures?
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PowerMac
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May 8, 2012
It was alive until the moment i tried to read my external drive via firewire. Then it hangs so i detached the external and reboot.
Since then it refused to boot.
I've tried :
1. cmd+option+p+r
2. fsck -dy(it gives out a disk0s errors and other errors).
3.cmd+s.
Everything fails. Now when it starts up i'll see the apple grey screen then it goes off.
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PowerMac G5 Dual cpu 1.8Ghz, iPod 4Gb,Powerbook G4 1.67Ghz, Mac OS X (10.3.9)
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Apr 16, 2009
I just bought a new iMac and it is really quiet. But I don't intend to retire my old G4 desktop. The olny thing that bothers me is the blower. It is always on even if I am not working on the machine. When I put it to sleep the blower goes off.
I have another G4 desktop (slightly older) which is no where near as noisy.
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Oct 21, 2007
I have had my 2002 Quicksilver for 5 years now. I use it only for surfing the web & personal stuff. I do all my real video work on my quad G5, including burning DVDs. The G4's Superdrive isn't responding to anything. The eject button doesn't work (although the eject arrow appears on screen); Command-period does nothing; the "eject" command in firmware doesn't work (reads "can't EJECT"). Is there any way to run a diagnostic on the Superdrive ... to see if the problem is manageable, or irreparable? I can live with a slow drive that rejects some brands of DVDs ...but is she really dead as a doornail? Is there an apnea test for Superdrives?
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PowerMac G4 2002 Quicksilver
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
Dual 1GHz, 1.5GB SDRAM, PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104
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May 17, 2008
6 of 8 processors at 100% for 24 hrs/day for nearly a week), my MacPro's "Power Supply 2" temperature suddenly rose to ~207 ?F (~95 ?C).I got a large external fan going through the desktop to bring the temperature down. I also tried to install smcFanControl to see if I could bump up the internal fan speed. Well, I could bump up THREE of the fans (I/O, CPU/Memory, and Exhaust), but it says that the PS fan is steady at just under 600 rpm, despite me cranking it up in the software to anything else (including the max, 2800, and anything less).
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Mar 30, 2010
I put my i5 to sleep around midday, came home from work @ 4, and my iMac would not respond to keyboard, mouse, or power button mashing. My wife noted the power had gone out upon seeing the microwave clock. I checked the outlet (her Macbook was plugged into the other receptacle), and there's still power going to my machine.
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May 19, 2010
Have a Power Mac G4 MDD - Apple genius bar looked at it and told me probably need a new power supply (shutting down at will and having trouble powering up but before that the computer was running well) and I'm not sure if I should get a used or new one on ebay or if you have a better idea. Can't afford a whole new system so want to resurrect this one.
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May 25, 2012
Is there any place that repairs/reconditions these or should I just toss it into the e-waste?
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Apr 16, 2012
Why is the blower working.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Oct 15, 2007
I have a G5 (Late 2005) and I just bought a LaCie Quadra 500GB hard drive last week and I have it connected with Firewire 800. I was away for the weekend and left the surge protecter unplugged while I was gone. I came home today and plugged everything back in and powered up. My G5 does not recognize the LaCie Drive. It powers on and I can hear it running, but it will not mount on the desktop. I checked the cables and everything is connected.
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G5 Dual 2.3 GHz
Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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Jan 23, 2010
I went upstairs last night to find my Macbook Pro's charger had no light lit up on it. I tried everything including changing wall sockets, resetting the SMC, with and without the battery - nothing! I then noticed I could feel the electrical current on my Macbook Pro and then it started, a loud ticking coming from the brick. It's dead. It's just under 18 months old. Apple has said that I have no Applecare, no tech support and no warranty so buy a new one. I thought electronics HAD to have a 2-year warranty on them in Europe? Can I take that to apple? It's �60 for a new one and things like this shouldn't fail after just 17 months.
It's the old 85W type. The guy at Apple told me they only do the "new" 60W types. Can I use these with a June '08 Macbook Pro? I've had no end of problems with my MBP. I may call an end to Apple - I'm not happy paying over the odds for this Macbook less than 18 months ago for it to have had so many problems already.
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Mar 14, 2012
My trusty PPC g5 from 2004 has died, or at least it won't start. It shows the grey apple screen, but no spinner, and after a few minutes the fans kick in and build to a wind-tunnel noise.
I don't have a backup of this machine, or it's other drive, so I am nervous about taking it into Apple where they might just wipe it.
Also, I surprisingly CAN start it up in Firewire disk mode, and both drives seem to be OK when accessed from another computer.
So I've copied off the most important things, and I will probably try to make clones. But before I finally cart it into Apple (where it will probably cost more than its worth to fix it),
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Powermac G5, Intel iMacs, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
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Oct 18, 2006
dont know if this is the right thread but, i picked up a Performa 5200CD, from the dump, and its in perfect condition, but when you go to turn the power on, it does nothing, could this have a dead power suply, broken switch?
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Anyone know where I can find a complete list of known outstanding issues / faults / 'features' of a Mac Pro / iMac?
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Nov 9, 2010
I just watched this: [URL] and really liked the idea (having a hard drive dock, and just a lot of OEM drives with all your stuff). I live in the UK, and Maplin sells some SATA docks, but they're all USB. Ao you know of any firewire 800 solutions? (Google didn't help) or any alternatives?
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I noticed that installing Leopard on my Mac Pro has given me Front Row. But what options are available to me to use it? Bluetooth remotes? The Apple remote? Something else? Nothing?
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I'd like to find a good file tagging solution for OS X and wondered if folks had suggestions. There are a bunch of these applications out there. I'll list a couple here to get the discussion going. There's:
Tagbot [URL] (Not updated in a while)
Leap [URL]
Tags [URL]
Punakea [URL] (Freeware)
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Mar 13, 2012
I have recently upgraded my iTunes to version 10.6 on my MacBook Pro and have since been having issues. Evey time i open the application a error message pops up stating 'iTunes has unexpectedly quit' and gives me a error review. If i could avoid backing up my library and reintalling the software that would be pferefable.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 8, 2012
several of my employees can find ADP Mobile Solutions App on their phone, but it won't show up on mine. It won't show up on my Apple MacBook computer or Ipad either. Does any know why Apps show up on some phones, but not others?
Info:iPhone 4, iOS 5.1
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Sep 6, 2010
Yes this is yet another NAS thread. I've read a few of them over the past month, new/old and looked at a few solutions:
1. Time Capsule - I've owned a 1TB 1st gen & sold it as I didn't believe MAC filtering was actually working.
2. DLink DNS-323 - Looks like a good solution for simple NAS backup; limited and build quality looks cheap for the price (ext $215-239CAN new)
3. Synology DS210j or DS209
My needs are pretty simple for now and soon going to grow. I've own two Macs - Mac Mini & Al_MB - and currently I'm backing up to a local USB WD MyBook Elite 2TB for the Mini as the family uses it the most. My wife has just got a high-end camera and going to get serious with pictures in RAW format and I figure by end of September our 350GB HDD on the Mini will get full. My Al_uMB will be used for personal surfing, learning XCode and majority for audio production (personal projects).
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May 21, 2010
I have a few macs running Tiger and Leopard and do not have a hard drive that is filled to more than 20GB of the capacity. Looking for external hard drive solutions. I have found a couple of very good drives that only have FW 400 and USB 2.0, one in particular is a older model G-Drive 500GB for $50 that is supposed to be quite reliable. These drives are being blown out due to newer ones have esata and fw 800. Would I see a difference in speed cloning or backing up to a a fw 400 drive even if I get a newer mac that only has fw 800 ports and I use a 400-800 adaptor? The better drives are faster 7200 RM vs the slower 5400 drives, mostly portable that I have been looking at. I have been reading posts that for applications such as mine I would not see a difference. For the most part I use the computers for office related tasks including Word, Excel etc with not much else, although I have some different utility programs. I just want a bootable drive should my hard drive fail. I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my drives. My main comp has two drives where the primary is cloned to a secondary, but want a external that I can easily plug into a new mac and clone the hard drive in that Mac to my external drive!
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I just sighed up for a iDrive account and it's looking good so far, what are others here using for online back up?
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Apr 9, 2008
In what's become a yearly release, I have officially released the fifth edition of the Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions paper. If you are unfamiliar with the document, it is a free paper that will help you find the right backup solution for your environment, outlining various backup techniques, software solutions and data consolidation solutions. This document has been referenced in numerous webcasts and online publications. If you've read the previous releases, much of this will seem similar. The main update in this paper is a complete review of the PresSTORE 3 solution. You can find a link to the document and its mirror at: [URL]
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I need to invest in a larger screen and updated mac, but I HATE the glare of the screens on imac. I'm a writer - long hours - who has been waiting for Apple to respond to complaints and request for matte screen.Seems like no prospect of it happening soon. Any suggestions/ solutions for someone on a limited budget?
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iMac
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May 24, 2010
It's time for me to look into serious back up solutions for a Mac Pro dual boot. I had good backup solutions in the past, but this set up is different. I now have two Mac drives (system and storage), the Windows partition on Mac system drive, and one Windows storage drive (total 3 physical, 4 virtual). Physical system drive is 240GB split down the middle. Mac storage drive is 1TB, and XP storage drive is 500MB. I keep reading about robotic backup systems like Drobo, but I'm wondering what the advantages are over simply getting matched drives and mirroring them. (Other than the fact that I don't have to worry about drive sizes I mean).
It seems to me the big selling point on these gadgets is the "set it and forget it" aspect. I've used mirrored drives in the past, and don't recall ever having to pay any attention to them, no extra software settings. Share them, don't share them, whatever. That, and they update on the fly. Every time I write to the primary drive, the redundant drive is instantly updated to match it. What am I not getting? These "robotic" backups just seem to me to be nothing more than SATA drive racks with a lot of blinking lights I don't really need (I pay attention to my storage capacity. I know when it's getting full long before the lights come on), and software that does stuff the system can already do.
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May 20, 2007
If you have a server, you need a good backup solution. I'd like to invite you all to download a copy of my newest installment of Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions, that includes some great tips and tricks on how to consolidate your data, rotate your media and which software packages and tools may work best in your environment. You can get the latest document on my website at: [URL]. I hope you find it helpful in keeping your data safe!
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For those that are using the Macbook Air as their primary computer, what are people's solutions for the limited drive size of the Macbook Air?
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May 26, 2010
So my sister's girlfriend is a professional photographer. Her former consultant get her an SCSI 68-pin connected Sony StorMaster tape drive that backs up her 3 big NAS drives with all her work via EMC Retrospect. This was on a PowerMac G5 tower with an SCSI 68-pin card installed. She's moving and has tasked me with getting it all up and running again at her new place since she's fallen out with the old consultant (who did some weird, weird stuff with their network - why are there 3 switches for the NAS? Why does the Airport run through two of them? WTF?) and got an iMac 27" i7.
Now, problem is, obviously that her i7 has no way of plugging into that SCSI tape drive. She's been using her G5 purely to run Retrospect which is a waste of space and energy. Plus she's moving to a much smaller space, so I really, really want to get it out of there. So here's the thing - I CANNOT find a 68-pin SCSI to USB adapter other than one by Ratoc, which apparently only lets the tape drive function in "mass storage mode" which doesn't really tell me if it will work with Retrospect or not. Is there another solution to keep the current tape drive and plug it into the iMac?
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Aug 18, 2010
Woke my C2D MBP from sleep to find a horrendous blue tint to the screen, googled it and found it is a fairly common problem but none of the solutions that seemed to work for everyone have worked for me. Tried the terminal command, tried turning a screensaver on and then off, tried ctrl-cmd-eject to restart the screen - nada.
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Aug 2, 2009
I made a video about some hidden options that let you change certain things in the dock such as: Menu items, spacers, and the name of the trash.
[URL]
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