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Old 15-03-2008, 10:36 AM
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Question iMac G5 problem
Hi All,
First post and it's a problem, bugger.

I've got a problem with my iMac G5. When I press the power button it gets to the grey screen with the apple logo and the spinning thing but no further. If I hold shift for safe mode it gets past this to the blue screen but again, no further.

For a while now it has been used only as a TV with EyeTV and hasn't even been connected to the internet. And in January I formatted it and installed leopard and eyetv and that's just about it. So I'm pretty certain it isn't a software problem.

I thought it might be the hard drive but I plugged a firewire cable into it and my macbook and loaded it up as a slave hard drive and it came up fine on my macbook's desktop.

So I've really got no idea what's wrong with it apart from thinking it's probably a hardware problem. Has anyone experienced this before?

If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.
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Old 15-03-2008, 10:37 AM
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Most likely software.

Done any software updates lately? Try an Archive and Install.
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Old 15-03-2008, 10:39 AM
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Can you boot off your Leopard install DVD? If so then it is software. If not then there is potentially a hardware issue.
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Old 15-03-2008, 10:41 AM
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Nah I haven't installed anything since Jan. It hasn't even been connected to the internet.

I'm going to try a clean install today but I don't think it will work considering it had one three months ago and it's only got one program installed.

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Old 15-03-2008, 11:16 AM
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It managed to load the Leopard install DVD. Will see in an hour or so whether a clean install worked.
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Old 15-03-2008, 12:43 PM
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Clean install seems to have worked. I haven't installed anything yet but it gets into OSX which I presume means it isn't a hardware problem.

Thanks all.
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