20 Most Recent Apple Power Mac G5 Desktop - Page 5 Questions & Answers

Have you tried a system restore?

Did you try holding the "C" Key continuously while re-booting?

Two possible things are wrong either your hard drive has gone or your system has corrupted. Put your instal disk in start it up holding down the c key. Once it has started check that the hard drive exists by go to the menu bar and selecting the disk utility. If the hard drive shows it means that it is okay run the disk utility check drive and then run the repair permissions. Then try restarting, if it works then you are back up and running again. If the drive shows up and you restart and the same thing shows up with the grey screen, you will need to reinstal your system. You do this by starting up with the instal disk holding down the c key and run the instal script. To keep your hard drive contents your will need to use the preserve users instal.

If your hard drive does not show up the hard drive is probably a gonner and you will have to purchase a new hard drive and instal a fresh system.

Hope this helps

you trying to install software on microsoft vista or 7 i think , just right click on install file and choose run as administrator and confirm with ok

If it is a G4 PowerPC processor No
If it is an Intel Processor Yes

Check if its not overheating.

Also check your power settings

This is just an off-chance thing. The three lights could indicate a failed or badly seated memory chip.
Turn the Mac off and remove the side. Remove the perspex panel and then remove the grey plastic panel containing the 2 large fans (it just pulls out towards you).
You now have access to the RAM sticks. Use the illustrations on the inside of the Aluminium door to identify the sticks and so that you can remove and re-seat them. Refit the fans and the perspex panel and see if the mac will start up. If not, you may have to try extra RAM (depending on how much you have installed). These macs have their RAM installed in matching pairs so if you have only 2 stick in your Mac then you need to get 2 more in order to eliminate the first 2.
Report back if that helps.

We need to clarify. Your couldn't be running Leopard 10.6 because that's Snow Leopard which doesn’t run on Power Mac G5s.

So assuming its just ordinary Leopard 10.5, have you tried firstly unplugging all USB and FireWire devices, leaving only the screen, keyboard and mouse?

Resetting PRAM does almost nothing. Have you got a Leopard DVD somewhere you could start up from?

Did you repair permissions in disk utility? sometimes you have to use the instal disk disk utility. When doing updates do not touch it as it can cause corruptions. If you do a reinstall the apple support has a combo upgrade to download

sounds like dust... may need a good cleaning or the fans may just be going... I’m happy to assist further over the phone at https://www.6ya.com/expert/norman_d2fa496dce30c65d

If this is a completely new problem and was working fine in the past you may be correct..this may be the result of something fubar...however, you may (just to be sure) want to check every time preference and advanced property of your sound drivers. For instance, if you are using a Conexant Audio driver you will want to go into the sound properties and click on the advanced properties for your speaker output device and make sure things like balance and levels are showing up balanced etc within the audio driver properties. Also the driver properties may come with a configure button. Try to configure the audio where you may get a "test" feature that would test each speaker channel individually.

Other than that there's not going to be much more to do other then trying to reinstall the audio drivers from your computer manufacturer's website or, worst case scenario, go with an inexpensive sound card. Best of luck.

The folder with the blinking question mark means that your Mac cannot find a bootable system on the internal drive. This usually means either that the drive has been corrupted or is not accessible. The proper repair procedure is to boot from the system installation CD and use the Utility menu to run Disk Utility / Repair Disk on the internal drive. But at this point, I'd have to ask you to elaborate on your claim that you "messed up your Super Drive" before I can figure out how to proceed from where you are.

Sure, it could be the motherboard. But it could also be the power supply, the power button, the front panel board, an unseated cable, your power cord, or even your wall outlet. It you take a shotgun approach to replacing parts it's going to get very expensive. An Apple-certified tech has access to the repair manual containing the exact steps to take when presented with symptoms like this, and the exact part numbers of replacement parts. If you don't have the repair manual and the parts source, this may very well be your least expensive option.

There are seven diagnostic LEDs near the memory banks of this model: six in a tight line between the edge of the logic board and DIMM bank 1, and the seventh just underneath DIMM bank 1 and slightly more inboard. Please tell me which of these LEDs are on and I will tell you what they mean.

Well, I can give you free advice, but I can't give you a free solution. The symptoms are pretty conclusive that you have a bad processor that needs to be replaced. It's theoretically possible that your processor may have just gotten loosened, but highly improbable, as there are eight hex-head bolts involved. Sorry to have to give you the bad news.

Video RAM is not customer-serviceable. You will need to replace the video card in your G5 to eliminate this error.

I have a slightly different but related model of Canon camera. I have found that if you erroneously power it on in "camera" mode instead of "playback" mode, you get the symptoms you describe: you can control the camera with iMovie, but you can't get any video out of it. Make sure you have the power switch in "playback" position -- it's an easy mistake to make.

This one is pretty clear. Your machine is a June, 2004 model. Your video RAM is bad. Video RAM is not user-replaceable on the Radeon 9800 XT, so you will have to replace the Radeon card itself.

Do you have your G5 hooked up to a UPS? The symptoms are consistent with drive-spin-up current load temporarily overloading a marginal/failing UPS.

I believe I know exactly what has happened here.
HughesNet/DirecWay/DirecPC uses a proxy server to speed up their service. If you later switch services to cable or DSL and neglect to remove the proxy, you will get no activity at all.
Here's how to remove the proxy:
Under the Apple menu, choose System Preferences. Choose Network. Choose Ethernet. Choose Proxies. (Sorry, I don't have 10.4 in front of me -- I'm trying to do this from memory and 10.5 is different -- so if one of these choices isn't immediately obvious, look around a little.) Choose Web Proxy. I am assuming you will see something entered in this slot. Erase it and uncheck the checkbox (if there is one). Hit OK, Accept, and all the other buttons necessary to get out of the Network subpanel. Now your browser should start working again.