[lightusr]

I've got a rev A 2Ghz G5 that I used to use a lot at home but now I use an MBP for most things. However I store all my music, manage photos in Lightroom constantly and do occasional web work on its 24" display. It also handles backups for itself and 3 machines. I've got 2x400gb internal and 2x300gb firewire for backups.

It had lockup issues long ago and now it's refusing to boot completely without freezing. It's out of Applecare and I'm guessing either needs 1 processor or a logic board which look to be around $500-$700. I don't need a display and have tons of storage, would I be better off buying more enclosures and using an iMac or buying a Mac Pro. Or has anyone had any luck getting Apple to fix issues on an out of warranty mac that were "fixed" when it had coverage?

[stev0n]

Hi
if you can't get it going i might be interested in buying it

regards steve

[lightusr]

I know it's either a cpu or the logic board. it'll boot a quarter of the time and as soon as you open activity monitor you see that 1 CPU is flat lined. I'm going to try to remove 1 cpu and see if it'll run with just one. Either way I'm done with the machine, I bought a Mac Pro last night.

It's a rev a 2x2ghz g5 with 2.5gb of ram and 250gb storage.

[Todd Madson]

Might as well migrate the 250 gig drive to the new machine then, maybe sell the G5 as a "hobbyist special" or something.

[lightusr]

Todd,

Thanks for the reply. Actually the box had 2x400gb in it and I had spare drives laying around so I'm going to sell it with the 250gb in it. I mirrored the boot drive of the new one and put the 400gb's right in and started using them. It's nice that Mac Pro's can read the apple partition format as well as GUID partition table.