Good Saturday morning. Big weekend plans - get another 50 pages of this Photoshop book under my belt & do some cataloging of The World’s Largest T-Shirt Collection™️ & get the new-to-me PSU in the G5, a somewhat modern computer that ISN’T affected by the Intel bug. 🤨 Still pissed that IBM blew off the PPC 970 series of chips. I know they ran too hot but so much potential wasted.
@Devils_Rancher So after an hour-Long surgery to replace the PSU & lug the thing inside, that’s not what’s wrong with my old beast & I’m sad. (It took an hour bc I had the old & new PSU’s sitting next to each other & I re-installed the old one, only discovering my mistake as I was re-seating the last PCI card.)
So I tore it back down & re-installed the correct power supply & put it back together in less than 15 minutes. I’m now a pro at servicing a 15-year old Mac. If only I had diagnostic tools to tell me what the damn red knight in the motherboard meant... could be the board itself or one of the CPU’s. Do I take a 2002 G5 to the doctor for diagnostics?
One out of 10 or so pushes of the on button will boot it, but it shuts down suddenly after a few minutes. Can’t keep it on long enough to run the Apple Hardware Test disc on it (which I still have, BTW!)
@djsundog It has a couple plugins that were never ported to Intel on it, so I have 1 album I mixed on it that can’t be remixed without figuring out how to replace those. Also, it ran my slide scanner great, but I currently have a last-gen PowerBook doing that. It needs to live forever, because we still have 1000 slides to scan & I keep shooting more.
@djsundog tomorrow I might pull one CPU unit then the other, because I understand those will run with 1 CPU, & that would eliminate 1 possible cause, but I don’t want to fork over $100.00 for a used CPU on eBay when that’s what the whole box is worth... but I can’t part it out on eBay without knowing what parts are good, either. Argh.
This damn G5 cost me 2 grand & it ran for 14 years. It was still working when I upgraded to a Mac Pro in 2012, & I powered it up occasionally & ran it through screen sharing until this summer, when I was literally about to give it to a friend. It stopped powering on the day I was going to pack it up.
@Devils_Rancher sounds like one of mine. I'm hoping to come across some combination of components that don't fail to run more than once before I have to resort to really troubleshooting the problems.