Power Mac G5 :: Monitor Blinks And Everything Gone From Desktop
Oct 14, 2007
I have a acer 22"Widescreen monitor connected to a G5 Dual thru the DVI port on the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro card. Last night while opening windows &/or scrolling thru info. The monitor would blink and then POOF the windows disappear along with everything else on my desktop including hard drive icons! (the top menu border was still there, I don't remember if the dock survived)
After this happened a couple of times, a couple of restarts and letting it sit for an hour or so, I found that if I touched places on my desktop, randomly, the items that would normally occupy that piece of real estate would become visible. The phenomena hasn't happened today but I'm trying to isolate any problems before they become unfixable.
Information:
G5 PowerMac dual 2GHz
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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May 17, 2009
I just installed 8GB in a early 2009 2.66 Quad (I know I'll lose triple channel) but now it looks like there is a red LED on the daughter board that blinks when the power button is pressed. It also blinks for a second when the computer shuts down.
If you have a surge protector, I know there are two red LEDs on the mother board that blink when the surge protector is switched on (right under the optical drive). I think those are normal since it's been that way from the very beginning. But I don't ever remember seeing the red LED on the daughter board light up when the power button is pressed. The LED is just left of the large heatsink, and it is not part of the LEDs associated with the RAM or Riser.
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G5 Quad
Mac OS X (10.5.1)
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Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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ADC Monitor and G5 Power PC, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Recently broke my monitor and need to find a cheap replacement asap. I know that you need something that has the right adaptor to plug in but it doesn't really matter if it's apple, acer, etc. My question is does anyone know of a cheap monitor for the time being that has the right adaptor for the powerman g5?
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G4, Mac OS X (10.3.9)
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PowerMac
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iMac
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G5
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PowerMac, g4
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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 6GB DDR2 SDRAM
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PowerMac G5
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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