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Taking one for the Macnn Team; RE: Full blast fans/freezes
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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Time for a lobotomy.
I'm reinstalling my original OS - zeroing the HD and starting over.
Completely tired of the "application quit..." stuff and the blaring fans/quits - will post results here.
It's extreme, but I figure the cost in time lost to futzing, fiddling and wondering is getting too expensive.
However, things have gotten much simpler over the years, especially with DVDs - can anyone here remember the peculiar "Beeeuhzzhhweeeeek" noise (good one, eh??) of the disk eject motor on old Macs?
Remember how many disks it took to install System 6?
Man, things have improved!
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: England
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That noise of the old floppy drives was funny - and I thought I'd heard the last of it until i eject the CD from my new PowerBook - it made exactly that same sound!
Freaky - the 1.4MB Superdrive lives on in spirit....
Phil.
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PowerMac G4 MDD Dual 867 256MB
PowerBook 12" Revision C 768MB
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Sorry so many are having problems with their G5s.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Houston, TX
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imi having problems too... seems like even with the rev b, their are still many hardware issues with the g5...
good luck.. 
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-Rev. C PowerBook 17" 1.5GHz
-iPod Mini 4gb Silver (Rev. B)
-Gaming Rig: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester, Asus A8N-E, 2 Gig Corsair XMS, nVidia GeForce 7900GT PCI-E, Seagate 320gb Barracuda HDD, Samsung 16X Dual Layer w/ LightScribe, Thermaltake Tsunami, Antec 550W True Power 2.0, Saitek Eclipse Keyboard, Logitech MX518 Gaming Mouse, Samsung 19" 931B.
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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I could be wrong, but...
It's not always hardware and the G5 is not be a troublesome machine at all.
We can't forget that computers run in a human environment and are prone to the complexities and irregularities of such.
Owning my G5 became problematic well after I purchased it. There's just no way to say it became so because of a mechanical or design flaw. To be fair, I could very well take it to a multitude of different Apple shops and get an equal number of different diagnosis. I write this point of view because the same event has personally occurred.
Look at it this way - owners of Porsche 930 Turbos had a high wreck rate. Blame the car? Perhaps - the car was extraordinarily powerful and well, well beyond the limit of most drivers. Blame the driver? Definitely. The car didn't demand it be driven by idiots.
Anyway, after lobotomizing my G5 and reupgrading it to 10.3.5 has been so far, smooth. Adding all of my apps back, but none of the blizzard of shareware titles, has proven successful.
I'll let you know how this continues...
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Houston, TX
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good luck to ya,
im having problems with an error code. seems like i have something wrong with my logic board/cpu
oh well, time to buy apple care and make them come to me, im not hauling this 75 pound computer anywhere.
Steven
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-Rev. C PowerBook 17" 1.5GHz
-iPod Mini 4gb Silver (Rev. B)
-Gaming Rig: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester, Asus A8N-E, 2 Gig Corsair XMS, nVidia GeForce 7900GT PCI-E, Seagate 320gb Barracuda HDD, Samsung 16X Dual Layer w/ LightScribe, Thermaltake Tsunami, Antec 550W True Power 2.0, Saitek Eclipse Keyboard, Logitech MX518 Gaming Mouse, Samsung 19" 931B.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Still running fine after the reformat.
This issue may well be software after all.
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