Ok, I'm in a bad way on my G5, I'll give as much information as I can.
What happened: The power went out for about an hour during a storm. I did not have the G5 shut clear down, I only had it asleep (yet connected through a surge arrestor). I have it set to not restart automatically after a power failure.
After the power came back, the following happens when trying to start it up:
No startup chime
No sustained power-on light (it only comes on when pressing the button)
The fans do their normal startup spinup, but then all fans maintain a medium speed, accelerating to full throttle if left running
The hard drives spin up and clatter
The monitor shows nothing
The USB optical mouse does not light up
The machine does not boot (as above, the monitor shows nothing - no gray screen, nothing, it doesn't know that it's connected to anything)
No startup chime
What I've done so far, to no effect:
Reseat the RAM cards
Blow all the dust out
Reset the PMU
Attempt to start in THD mode to my iBook (figured it might be worth a shot at least)
After a few minutes running, I smelled that lovely "hot electronics" smell. I powered it off and pull the power cord, and felt the heat sinks on the processors. The lower heat sink is slightly warm to the touch, the upper is room temperature.
As best as I can tell via MacTracker, it's a 2005 G5, but I don't know if it's early or late because it's a dual 2.0 with eight ram slots, which MacTracker doesn't show an option for.
I think it poofed a processor, haven't called a Mac shop yet (I'm away from home), I'm looking for more options/input/things to try that I haven't yet...
Thanks all...
What happened: The power went out for about an hour during a storm. I did not have the G5 shut clear down, I only had it asleep (yet connected through a surge arrestor). I have it set to not restart automatically after a power failure.
After the power came back, the following happens when trying to start it up:
No startup chime
No sustained power-on light (it only comes on when pressing the button)
The fans do their normal startup spinup, but then all fans maintain a medium speed, accelerating to full throttle if left running
The hard drives spin up and clatter
The monitor shows nothing
The USB optical mouse does not light up
The machine does not boot (as above, the monitor shows nothing - no gray screen, nothing, it doesn't know that it's connected to anything)
No startup chime
What I've done so far, to no effect:
Reseat the RAM cards
Blow all the dust out
Reset the PMU
Attempt to start in THD mode to my iBook (figured it might be worth a shot at least)
After a few minutes running, I smelled that lovely "hot electronics" smell. I powered it off and pull the power cord, and felt the heat sinks on the processors. The lower heat sink is slightly warm to the touch, the upper is room temperature.
As best as I can tell via MacTracker, it's a 2005 G5, but I don't know if it's early or late because it's a dual 2.0 with eight ram slots, which MacTracker doesn't show an option for.
I think it poofed a processor, haven't called a Mac shop yet (I'm away from home), I'm looking for more options/input/things to try that I haven't yet...
Thanks all...
