Potentional G5 conquest

#1 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 - 03:59

Well, one of the bigger churches in my churches network has a small recording studio for spoken word stuff and they have dual 2GHz(early 2005) G5 sitting around. I asked about and my friend who asked the head audio tech said it was "dead".

I've been my friends computer support for a while so when they say "dead" it's as simple as a messed up system file or bad OS install. So I have a little bit of hope for it.

What I want to know is, what are the known problem of early 2005 G5 towers?

#2 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 - 16:39

Leaky caps sometimes...

#3 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 - 16:53

Didn't the cooling systems also have a tendency to go "Splooge!" at any given moment?

#4 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 - 20:46

If you mean the watercooled G5s they would leak not just spew everywhere at once (in the cases I am familiar with anyways), but I don't think the dual g5s are water cooled. The g5 I had was a dual 2ghz iirc and it wasn't water cooled.

#5 Wed, 5 May 2010 - 06:29

Early 2005 is presumably a dual-core model and while I think the top end was water-cooled, the low end dual 2GHz was definitely standard and ought to be pretty reliable.

Probably a bad OS install, perhaps dead GPU.

#6 Wed, 5 May 2010 - 15:11

Yeah I've seen so many times people describe computers as "Dead" and they just needed a reinstall.

#7 Thu, 6 May 2010 - 13:21

The thing is, to most people, needing a reinstall does = dead...for Macs it might be different, but as far as PCs go I've owned quite a few machines that I've gotten for cheap or free just because they required a reinstall, most people don't know how to do it themselves and quite frankly don't want to, and with the computer shops in town charging around $80/hour its usually worth it to ditch the machine and replace it.