Just wondering. Did the G5 tower give you the single tone of death, followed by the normal start up chime, then boot into open firmware when this missing hard drive event began?
Sometimes the hard drives and video cards are not recognized by the motherboard firmware at boot up. Hard drives are the worst offenders. I've had many calls about drive incompatibilities. I've found that the 160 Gig, 250 and 300 Gig Maxtors and Segates tend to work without fail, while the 400 and 500 Gig models require a third party SATA card in one of the slots. No one has really figured out why. Go with the Segate if for no other reason than the 5 year warranty on their drives.
And for God's sake, don't run Micromat's TechTool Pro 4 on a Power PC ever again! Max has told me of a really bad situation involving TTP 4 and one of his computers. This is where I got the diagnostic situation I listed at the top of this post. He hasn't figured it out yet.
Yeah, if it's a sealed box sale, make CrapUSA make good on it.
I hope they have another sealed box they can give you in exchange. Their service is painfully slow in some parts of the country, so don't count on them giving you same day service if they need to open the box.
Good Luck! It will be so worth it once you get the working computer running!
Don't buy or run TechTook Pro on a Macintosh that you value.
While I managed to get the computer in question to run again, I had to swap out a newer and more advanced ATI video card and replace it with the older and slower ATI card that came with the computer. No one can answer my questions about what TTP did to the motherboard and why the computer won't boot with the newer video card in it. The process of diagnosing this cost me nearly 3 working days over two weeks.
To this moment, I don't know what running the TTP surface check software could do to the BIOS or PRAM/NVRAM that would cause such a problem, but the problem persists despite using every trick in the book.
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They have a 17" iMac for $749, $799, and 1099.
They have a 20" iMac for $1149
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wo/0.RSLID?mco=E60A57E5&nclm=SpecialDeals
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Just wondering. Did the G5 tower give you the single tone of death, followed by the normal start up chime, then boot into open firmware when this missing hard drive event began?
Sometimes the hard drives and video cards are not recognized by the motherboard firmware at boot up. Hard drives are the worst offenders. I've had many calls about drive incompatibilities. I've found that the 160 Gig, 250 and 300 Gig Maxtors and Segates tend to work without fail, while the 400 and 500 Gig models require a third party SATA card in one of the slots. No one has really figured out why. Go with the Segate if for no other reason than the 5 year warranty on their drives.
And for God's sake, don't run Micromat's TechTool Pro 4 on a Power PC ever again! Max has told me of a really bad situation involving TTP 4 and one of his computers. This is where I got the diagnostic situation I listed at the top of this post. He hasn't figured it out yet.
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See i never had a chance to boot into the OS, from the minute i fired up the machine, I got a blank grey screen.
This is the HD that came with the machine, I haven't added or removed anything to it, its a brand new out of the box Powermac G5 dual 2.0
I'm taking it in to CompUSA right now. Those dicks better have me set before I live to Austin this Saturday.
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I hope they have another sealed box they can give you in exchange. Their service is painfully slow in some parts of the country, so don't count on them giving you same day service if they need to open the box.
Good Luck! It will be so worth it once you get the working computer running!
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Don't buy or run TechTook Pro on a Macintosh that you value.
While I managed to get the computer in question to run again, I had to swap out a newer and more advanced ATI video card and replace it with the older and slower ATI card that came with the computer. No one can answer my questions about what TTP did to the motherboard and why the computer won't boot with the newer video card in it. The process of diagnosing this cost me nearly 3 working days over two weeks.
To this moment, I don't know what running the TTP surface check software could do to the BIOS or PRAM/NVRAM that would cause such a problem, but the problem persists despite using every trick in the book.
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