[manoela]

Hello,

Have anyone ever heard that the Power Mac G5 1.8 Dual has a problem in its plataform, and on the PCI bus? I've been having trouble with it since the day I got it. I've had it replaced by APPLE but it still presents the same problem. Everytime I try to do a MPEG 2 compression it crashes. It's not a Bad RAM problem because they've been all tested.

Any clue?

[zerostar]

Do you get a kernel panic? If so please post the results here....

What did you test the ram with? If the apple supplied test, that isn't always 100% so I would pull as much as you can and try to crash it, then replace what you had with what's left over and try again.

If it still crashes, take it to apple and have them verify, with their own eyes, it crashes when you encode an MPEG@, don't accept a replacement unit until it STOPS crashing.

I had a similar problem with a DP 2.0, had to make them see the problem, and when they called me to pick it up, they plugged it in and verified the problem was gone (after 3 mainboards) sucked but now it works 100%

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i had to have my video card replaced and the logic board replaced on my new g5 like yours. since having it serviced, (about a year and a half) it's been nice.

i have panther on my machine, what version are you running?

[manoela]

I have OSX 10.3.9.
Right now I run it with 1.25 RAM and it works fine. The problem is when I intall 1.5 GB RAM or 2.0 GB RAM, then it crashes when doing the MPEG 2 compression, using the Compressor.

I've changed chips and it still happens. I do need to do some more testing but it sounds very strange that so many RAM chips could be defective. I've tried 6 different chips already!!

[RevEvs]

do you replace RAM intot he same slot each time? or do you swap the slos around? could be a dodgy ram slot...