Q: Need Help! PowerMac G5 issues!!!
Hey, so I have had a lot of issues with my power mac g5. One day I was on my powermac and then it froze up and stopped working. I tried to turn it on and it started blinking 3 times, so I tried all of the suggested things to fix it but never got it to work. So I left it sitting for a couple months. And then one day i decided to try again. So I tried rearraging the RAM cards to see if there was a bad RAM port and eventually got it to run. So i did updates on it and then decided since i thought i had found the bad RAM port, i decided to arrange the rest of the RAM to make it faster. But, sadly, it went back to the 3 blinky thing. So I have tried over and over again with things and it isnt working, sometimes it blinks 3 times, sometimes it blinks 2 times. I tried resetting the PMU thing, but i pressed it more than once, which i didnt realize that you were only supposed to press it once. Now, the startup light only blinks once like every 5 seconds or so... I need to know if this is still fixable or if it is completley garbage. Also, what happens if you happen to press the PMU reset button more than once? Please, someone help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Posted on May 16, 2011 7:34 AM
Hair Dryer trick...
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=13240047#13240047
Rarely one time will be a permanent fix, mostly if heated properly it'll continue to work if you don't shut down the G5.
Golytronic in Germany says they can reflow the boards with great success.
Posted on May 16, 2011 11:31 AM