I recently picked up an old power mac G5 for free, thought it was worth having a fiddle with.
Any one had any experience fixing these beasties? because it's currently like banging my head against a wall
It's coming on, but not getting into the OS, just a grey screen with a question mark/folder icon I think it might be missing the OS
Also worryingly some red led's on the logic board, after a lot of hunting I've found out that the led leads to "Contact Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider" thanks apple that's a really descriptive fault, a bit more digging later and it's it's due to CPU over temperature, not that it's currently over temperature but has gone over temperature at some point . . .
Need to remove the whole cpu&cooling unit, as it's a liquid cooling system probably have to check it.
Then AFAIK you HAVE to run the Apple Service Diagnostic to recalibrate the cooler, but you cannot get that unless you are an Authorised apple service agent and they no longer support the G5 so you cannot get it repaired anyway.
And people wonder why I don't like mac's
Any help anyone? is it even worth my time looking at this or should I just strip it out and mod the case for ATX?
Would be a shame as it's a really nice system, it's the 2005 Power Macintosh G5 "Quad Core", ie two PowerPC 970MP 2.5ghz cpu's with a liquid cooling unit, with 2.5gb of ddr2 and an geforce 6600gt