First problem, first post.
I've been a Mac user for several years now and have always had good luck with my Macs. Unfortunately my friend wasn't so lucky and decided to ditch his G5 and opt out of the Mac format. In the process, he handed my his bum machine. So here I am trying to trouble shoot the machine and see if I can't not breath some life back into it. It is a video problem from what I can tell and when my friend took it into Apple to get an estimate on what might be wrong the simply told him it's either the video card or logic board. He just decided to go buy another computer and not deal with what could be an expensive bill to get this one working again. I am in the same position, as I am not prepared to throw my money around on a G5 without a little guidance and I feel like Apple will charge me an arm and a leg to get it working again. If it can be a cheap fix, I am all for it but if not there is no reason to try and bring this Mac back to life as I already use a much faster Macbook Pro. This would merely serve as a nice backup machine and potentially a server.
Attached is an image of what I see when I turn on the computer. You'll notice there is no hard drive present as my friend Ryan wanted to hold onto it. The computer would boot up just fine with the HD present, but the information displayed on the screen is far from normal. I am not sure how to describe the display so please take a look. I presume someone has had some experience with this before. If you could point me in the right direction and/or give me some insight on what I am dealing with it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian
I've been a Mac user for several years now and have always had good luck with my Macs. Unfortunately my friend wasn't so lucky and decided to ditch his G5 and opt out of the Mac format. In the process, he handed my his bum machine. So here I am trying to trouble shoot the machine and see if I can't not breath some life back into it. It is a video problem from what I can tell and when my friend took it into Apple to get an estimate on what might be wrong the simply told him it's either the video card or logic board. He just decided to go buy another computer and not deal with what could be an expensive bill to get this one working again. I am in the same position, as I am not prepared to throw my money around on a G5 without a little guidance and I feel like Apple will charge me an arm and a leg to get it working again. If it can be a cheap fix, I am all for it but if not there is no reason to try and bring this Mac back to life as I already use a much faster Macbook Pro. This would merely serve as a nice backup machine and potentially a server.
Attached is an image of what I see when I turn on the computer. You'll notice there is no hard drive present as my friend Ryan wanted to hold onto it. The computer would boot up just fine with the HD present, but the information displayed on the screen is far from normal. I am not sure how to describe the display so please take a look. I presume someone has had some experience with this before. If you could point me in the right direction and/or give me some insight on what I am dealing with it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian
