PPC G5 Halts, Panics, Crashes - heat related? — #23

Post #23 by UltraNEO*

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Mon, 12 Oct 2009 - 03:30
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/ppc-g5-halts-panics-crashes-heat-related.18753/

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In geekbench tests, the original macbook air (1.6GHz C2D) whups the pants off of all G5 systems except the dual2.7 and the dualdual2.5. This test is admittedly only of CPU and ram speed performance, and isn't necessarily indicative of the fact that even though there are no 64-bit apps for PPC macs, you could hypothetically cram sixteen gigs of ram into one of those faster G5s, or an nVidia GeFORCE 7800GT or whatever.
BTW, how has the ram swapping/testing been going?

After having read through this thread that's unfortunately the only thing I can think of in terms of what may be causing the system to be unstable, unless it really is just a faulty or mis-seated processor or other logic board component.

The system's problem is really weird, for instance, I've had the machine up and running for days, almost a week even, and it's been fine... then restarting the machine booting into leopard will make it crash! xx( ... taking out the user upgraded (Kingston crap) seems to make the G5 systems more stable but slower...but it'll still misfire on occasions plus there's no LED warning light inside (unless i'm looking at the wrong place) but i'm not really sure right now. Would like some diagnostic software to prove it's... what's available?