A Lemon?

I have had a few issues with my PM G4 since I got it, looking for suggestions moving forward.

It wouldn't boot 2 days after I received it. The drive was corrupted, but reformatted, and reinstalled everything, and it was fine after that.

A week later, actually Friday night, my machine turned itself on. That was a first for me, but I was sitting in my kitchen and is simply powered up. I knew that setting in OS 9 but I didn't think you could do that in X.

Saturday morning, the machine wouldn't stay on for more then 10 minutes, the computer would shut down but the light on the studio display would stay on.

Called Apple, the walked me through reseting the PMU, and had me zap the PRAM. That seemed to take care of things.

But when I was shutting down last night, the system crashed during the shutdown.

So I am a little concerned with the timing of everything, Hardware Test runs fine. I am just concerned about the gremlins. Any suggestions for other things to check or suggestions for working with Apple if these things keep popping up. Or do ya think I just got a lemon?

I'm running 10.2.6 with all the current updates.

Thanks

 

I am curious why you say OSX is not designed to be shut down every night?

Are their maintenance routines that run or something?

[Answered my own question with a little research....]

 

I held of VooDoo ceremony in my apartment, and since then the machine has not turned itself on, or off and other then that one crash (it crashed when I was shutting it down) I've been good.

It's been on since Sunday morning and barring and systems crashed or restarts for software I plan to leave it running for the week.

Any suggestions for good housekeeping utilities for OS X? Anybody have a regular maintenance routine they run?

Living in Manhattan, without a doorman makes returns, pick-ups and deliveries a huge pain in the *ss. So I am trying to avoid it.


Ask me how things are in a week.

 

Good Grief

It's going back...

Started shutting itself down on its own again.

This time when it booted it came up in a grey screen with dark grey text. "Welcome to OpenFirmwere" I need to type mac-boot to get it to start.

It's possesed and it needs to be repaced

 

This is starting to be a saga...

Anyhow called Apple... Guess what, they think I have bad power and recommend a UPS.

It makes sense.

so...

I'll buy a UPS, if the machine craps out again I'll know there's a machine issue, If it never does it again, I'll know what the issue was.

I ran the Extended Hardware tests, and just double checked the innards for obvious loose cables or connectors. Everything seems fine.

Anything else other then the Apple Hardware test that may be worth running?

Thanks for all the advice

Any suggestions on a UPS make or model? I need something to keep the power clean, I don't need 20 minutes of power backup. I'd like to spend less them $100 if that would fix the problem.

 

Last Steps

So...


Followed Apple's and this board's suggestions. Got a UPS and hooked everything up.

To be safe, I reset the PMU, Zapped the PRAM, reinstalled OSX and ran all the system updates. So it should be good as new.

So, now I leave it on for as long as it will stay up and we'll see what happens.

Thanks for the input

 

It lasted 15 minutes.... Then shut itself down.

It was worth the try...