Hi there,
got my G5 1.8 GHz DP with Formac Gallery 1900 ADC, ATI 9600, 1 gig extra (3rd party, but reliable, from DSP - quality vendor in Germany) about 2 weeks ago.
I experienced occasional crashes (screen freeze, mouse arrow movable, hard restart required) just like so many other users (the crashes appeared even before the extra RAM was added).
Ran Apple Hardware test - nothing detected.
Repaired permission - problem remains.
Now I wanted to reinstall OS X (came with 10.3.4 out of the box, I upgraded via software update to 10.3.5) - and I noticed that upon restart the usual grey screen appears with the usual spinning circle, but then the screen goes black and the display gets in sleep mode, while the Mac apparently is still running. regardless of what I do (hitting space bar, moving mouse, pressing mouse button etc.) it doesn´t wake up. When I do a hard restart it keeps hanging at exactly the same point unless I remove the disc. As a result I wouldn´t be able to do a system reinstallation at all - which worries me quite a bit.
Any suggestion would be very wellcome!
Thanks in advance
jph
got my G5 1.8 GHz DP with Formac Gallery 1900 ADC, ATI 9600, 1 gig extra (3rd party, but reliable, from DSP - quality vendor in Germany) about 2 weeks ago.
I experienced occasional crashes (screen freeze, mouse arrow movable, hard restart required) just like so many other users (the crashes appeared even before the extra RAM was added).
Ran Apple Hardware test - nothing detected.
Repaired permission - problem remains.
Now I wanted to reinstall OS X (came with 10.3.4 out of the box, I upgraded via software update to 10.3.5) - and I noticed that upon restart the usual grey screen appears with the usual spinning circle, but then the screen goes black and the display gets in sleep mode, while the Mac apparently is still running. regardless of what I do (hitting space bar, moving mouse, pressing mouse button etc.) it doesn´t wake up. When I do a hard restart it keeps hanging at exactly the same point unless I remove the disc. As a result I wouldn´t be able to do a system reinstallation at all - which worries me quite a bit.
Any suggestion would be very wellcome!
Thanks in advance
jph