[jpage8]

Here's one I cannot find anything about. I have a dual 2 power mac G5 that didn't want to wake up this morning. By "wake up" I mean the machine powers up, the grey screen with the apple appears, the small stripped circle rotates as usual, but then after approximately 20 seconds, the screen goes black and a small flickering message appears at a cursor in the top left corner >>> "Disc 2: Media not present."

any experience with this anyone? Feels bad.
thanks

[reader50]

Sounds like the optical drive is empty, which your Mac normally ignores unless the internal HD is corrupted. Boot from your Install disk, jump to Disk Utility, and try to repair the internal drive(s).

You can also jump to Startup Disk from the installer, to make sure your internal drive is selected as the boot device.

Your Mac is behaving oddly - if one boot device is acting up, it should switch to another automatically. Or display a graphical error message if no suitable boot devices will mount. You may end up doing an archive & install before this is done.

[Thorzdad]

FWIW, many G5's had a notorious wake-from-sleep problem. Google G5 "wake from sleep" and you'll find a lot to chew on. My G5 doesn't crash hard like yours. Mine just keeps bouncing from sleep-to-wake-to-sleep-to-wake-to-sleep-to-wake-etc. I simply never sleep it.