Hey everyone,
I have known for a little while now that my PowerMac G5's sata controller was pretty bad. Sometimes it wouldn't boot at all. It would just stay at the ? icon. Anyway, that lasted for a couple years. So, last week I got my first ever kernel panic on the machine. I thought nothing of it, my install of OS X was old. I had lots of 3rd party software. So last night I had a friend over and my brother came down and flipped the breaker on my room to be a total pain in the neck. I tried turning on my G5 and I got the click of death. I am not sure if my broken sata controller is the cause. I know the hard drive itself is dead, I threw it in my PC and it did the same thing. Could the broken sata controller have killed the drive? I never thought to swap out the logic board and now I am a bit fearful. I had all my music and work related stuff on there. I had a backup of my work related stuff but it is actually a couple weeks old so I am missing quite a bit of code. I only back up once a month. I just threw my HDD in the freezer. I took it out after about 5 hours and I am not sure whether to plug it in or not. It is almost 115 degrees outside and condensation stars forming before I can get it in a zip locked bag and plugged in. So, should I even risk plugging in another drive? This is the second drive that has failed in that machine. My only option would be to install OS X on my SSD but I think that might be too expensive to risk trying. Anyone here have any thoughts? I might end up just gutting it and throwing PC parts in it.
I have known for a little while now that my PowerMac G5's sata controller was pretty bad. Sometimes it wouldn't boot at all. It would just stay at the ? icon. Anyway, that lasted for a couple years. So, last week I got my first ever kernel panic on the machine. I thought nothing of it, my install of OS X was old. I had lots of 3rd party software. So last night I had a friend over and my brother came down and flipped the breaker on my room to be a total pain in the neck. I tried turning on my G5 and I got the click of death. I am not sure if my broken sata controller is the cause. I know the hard drive itself is dead, I threw it in my PC and it did the same thing. Could the broken sata controller have killed the drive? I never thought to swap out the logic board and now I am a bit fearful. I had all my music and work related stuff on there. I had a backup of my work related stuff but it is actually a couple weeks old so I am missing quite a bit of code. I only back up once a month. I just threw my HDD in the freezer. I took it out after about 5 hours and I am not sure whether to plug it in or not. It is almost 115 degrees outside and condensation stars forming before I can get it in a zip locked bag and plugged in. So, should I even risk plugging in another drive? This is the second drive that has failed in that machine. My only option would be to install OS X on my SSD but I think that might be too expensive to risk trying. Anyone here have any thoughts? I might end up just gutting it and throwing PC parts in it.
