My G5 Is Under Repair…, I'm a poor lonesome moderator Options

[lepetitmartien]

Well, I wasn't a lot around for 8 days as my G5 1.8 from 2003 decided to freeze on spot since last wednesday. It freezed at choice during boot (rotating thing), loading OS X (blue screen) or right during/after login.

The lithium battery was dead but not at first when I checked it, when I could change it it went slightly more "normal" as I could try to start from the Apple Hardware Test. Else I could only boot in Open Firmware and Single User Mode.

When I tried to startup on the install CD/DVD of 10.2.7, panther, tiger it froze too. However, after the lithium battery change I could install a 10.2.7 on the remaining drive (freeze in the middle but the system seems 100% on the drive).

The drives were OK, as the RAM (checked with memtest, while in SUM it can test 97% of you RAM including lower part not available another way), I counsel Applejack too which enables you to check drives, permissions, clean caches, check preferences while in SUM.

When I tried the AHT i went into something I found out is a commun bug instead of launching AHT i ended up in OF with this:

CODE

Invalid memory access at %SRR0: 000000000.6000d300 %SRR1: 100000000.40003030

Pretty impressive… but not meaning a lot.

As I knew my RAM was ok (even bought 1 GB more to check), the drives too, I tried in turn without the DVD burner, each SATA drives. I had no graphic card to try but overall it looks bad, only the hot pot, the temp sensors, the motherboard and the CPU are left, and no Applecare I have either (sorry Mr Apple, too expensive and never a mac has left me this way, NEVER). It's at the repairshop here in Paris since yesterday, and I ressucitated ye olde timer BW G3 last evening.

I'll buy tomorrow a FW external enclosure for the SATA drive on which I had saved my keychains/mail/etc as here I have no mail (it's my old mail database but I'm under tiger for a few months now and the databases are not compatible).

So in the end, it looks like it's something on the motherboard wich is blown in some way, so it'll $$$ in the end I know chips/components do die, but it's heartbrake, this was a fabulous computer. I'll know for sure in ten days.

Really, I need a macbook… (and no money for it s…t!)

[lepetitmartien]

Well, on the SATA front, no enclosure, all the ones I've seen available here are for IDE drives, the SATA they talk about is all eSATA and not internal SATA to something else.

So, the alternatives are:

- a SATA to USB 2 enclosure (beeeeeerh)
- a SATA/PATA (PATA=IDE) to USB 2 adapter, there's some around as helpers, it's been tried and tested and works great link is for the newertech version, others are available. Certainly the cheapest solution.

btw, I'm not fond of some USB as I'll need at the moment 2 things: a Tiger up and running on my G3 (if I want my email, I need Tiger, the database handling changed between panther and tiger in Mail and it's not reversible… SIGH), and the G3 is (bad) USB 1 so the recovery of GB of data is not my dream today…

On installing Tiger on a G3, it can be done, but the easiest means are: using another mac for the instal then replace the drive back in the G3 or replace the CD reader with a DVD reader…

- a SATA or SATA/PATA to firewire enclosure. There are some available on the net but it's priced crazily.

The pleiades eSATA/2 x FW800/FW400/USB2 is 109€ Pleiades Super S-Combo The full specs, I have 5 other enclosure from this brand, and they are great (a bit noisy due to the casing, but it depends of the drives)
Another enclosure with eSATA/FW400/USB2 is 80€ VulcanTech T1 also available here in the US
A dual drive exists too, but it's even more pricey $165 in FW400/USB2

Ooch

Just found the Pleiades is available in SATA to FW400 and cheaper… (given the price they sell the super combo, I can find an even better price…

Got to dive into this even more…

I want my mail and my keychains BACK! (SATA can go to HELL)(uh… just a one lettre case…)

Ce message a été modifié par lepetitmartien - sam. 10 juin 2006, 00:19.