In short, there are reasons the PowerMac G5 has a reputation of being something of a lemon. It is.
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Only the water cooled G5s had huge problems. The other G5s…
In short, there are reasons the PowerMac G5 has a reputation of being something of a lemon. It is.
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Only the water cooled G5s had huge problems. The other G5…
68kMLAHardwareby Mike RichardsonThu, 8 Oct 2009 - 21:02
I use HFVExplorer here too, but only to get files in and out of hfv images for SheepShaver. I've never used it on actual HFS hard disks. But if it works, then you can stick to what…
Thanks for the help. I don't have the Mac or its drive with me right now, but I'll double check the connector when I get the drive. I see several Adaptec 50-pin SCSI cards on ebay …
My iMac G5 of the same gen as your PowerMac using the same proc had this problem. It turned out to be RAM
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Yeah. I suppose the real thrust of my post would be…
I have to say, those old Apple scanners are really good considering their age...I have a Colour OneScanner 600/27, and its brilliant...the quality's better than that of my Epson mu…
Reading HFS is no problem. You can use HFSExplorer. It only has read-only support but that's all you probably need anyway. TransMac and MacDrive give full read/write support but th…
Count the pins on the SCSI drive. There should be 50 ( 2 x 25 ). Anything which handles 50pin SCSI should be able to read it. Even 68pin and 80pin can work with $5 adapters.
Your …
I've had my Centris 650 for many years, and I don't recall there ever being a "power brick" for it. Simple power cord is all I've ever used.
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What I meant was…
68kMLAHardwareby MycatisbigfootWed, 7 Oct 2009 - 21:10
G5's seem to be hot running chips, which is why Apple built the case around cooling them with massive airflow, multiple cooling fans, and temp sensors. When you resort to water coo…
Here's a Macintouch page discussing "G5 Thermal Runaway". You might find something helpful in it.
On an advisory note, I had a 2.0 Ghz G5 Xserve for a while, which I understand us…
it did die out a long time ago (I have ordered stuff from the original ages ago).
He opened a newer site a few years back (2007-2008) selling laptop parts, and that crashed and bu…
The Color OneScanner 1200/30 is one of my more-used toys: This came from it, via a Quadra 650 that has since died (fixing it is on my little list of things hopefully to be done du…
68kMLAHardwareby beachycoveWed, 7 Oct 2009 - 17:39
This pic gives a good sense of the mess the machine was in. It's still hard to believe it came up so well with just a clean.
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Nice ColorOne scanner I real…
68kMLAHardwareby Hotdog ZanzibarWed, 7 Oct 2009 - 15:12
I tried taking out the battery, reseating the CPU card and everything else again, waiting, pressing the red button, and still nothing. Pressing the power button starts the fans run…
68kMLAHardwareby beachycoveWed, 7 Oct 2009 - 15:07
Good thing is that the processors aren't too expensive.
http://cgi.ebay.com/PAIR-OF-APPLE-POWERMAC-G5-2-0Ghz-PROCESSORS-630-6425_W0QQitemZ270463905178QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCPUs?hash=…