Hi I recently acquired G5 for free from a listing on gumtree cos of a house clearance and thought 'hey it's old but why not'.
Anyways, I got it home and turned it on and the flashing folder appeared. So fair enough i put my Leopard disc in the drive and it fires up into the install menu. No probs there...
As it starts to install however, its freezes... No mouse activity or keyboard.. nothing! Then the fans start their impression of a jet engine!
After a few more goes and the same thing happening I thought I would investigate inside. Nothing wrong there either. No water spill as this one luckily isn't water cooled and everything looked fine.
So I jumped on the web and found some things to do like the lil button on the logic board and heating ram slots with a hairdryer and removing the bottom CPU etc etc but it still does the same, and sometimes it chooses not to boot aswell.
I checked the power supply and no probs either.
So Im guess what im asking is... The LogicBoard nackered? As I have no more ideas of things to do
Thanks for any help
Anyways, I got it home and turned it on and the flashing folder appeared. So fair enough i put my Leopard disc in the drive and it fires up into the install menu. No probs there...
As it starts to install however, its freezes... No mouse activity or keyboard.. nothing! Then the fans start their impression of a jet engine!
After a few more goes and the same thing happening I thought I would investigate inside. Nothing wrong there either. No water spill as this one luckily isn't water cooled and everything looked fine.
So I jumped on the web and found some things to do like the lil button on the logic board and heating ram slots with a hairdryer and removing the bottom CPU etc etc but it still does the same, and sometimes it chooses not to boot aswell.
I checked the power supply and no probs either.
So Im guess what im asking is... The LogicBoard nackered? As I have no more ideas of things to do
Thanks for any help