I'm still at work and haven't gone home to do this yet but I see that our original thread was deleted, and now the one we had been using is locked. We can discuss what's happened here. It will be great if this fixes things for us and I'm hopeful that it will. I also hope someone can find out sooner or later exactly what caused the problem, and what was done to correct it. I think after waiting all this time that we deserve to know.
Two and a half hours uptime; can go to the QuickTime homepage, and watch a trailer; watched a full-screen video with no problem. Monitor sleep and manual sleep work fine. Promising so far!
No odd error messages in the logs, except something about lookupd; but that's a whole 'nother thread, and doesn't seem to bother me any.
Things appear to be working for me. My bootrom is listed as 5.2.2f1
After over 3 hours of up-time, I've played a full-screen game, done a slide show in the Finder and I have a QuickTime movie loading in another tab in Safari while I type this.
On another note, I still get a strange QuickTime problem when the movie audio starts playing in Safari but the movie isn't actually playing on the screen. If I click the play button then the movie starts playing but on top of the audio that first started (which I can't stop)... so I can hear 2 sets of the audio from the movie. Anyone else get that? It started with QuickTime 7 and Tiger.
Dare I say, it seems to be running ok! Fans are running a little more than before but no crashes! I'll take it! More than 3 hours and all seems well... I still have my fingers crossed!
Two and a half hours uptime; can go to the QuickTime homepage, and watch a trailer; watched a full-screen video with no problem. Monitor sleep and manual sleep work fine. Promising so far!
No odd error messages in the logs, except something about lookupd; but that's a whole 'nother thread, and doesn't seem to bother me any.
I found a new bug! I think.
I did it twice in a row. If I put it to sleep from the apple menu and then click the mouse while it's going to sleep, it will just power off like you pulled the plug. Kind of strange.
Did anybody make XBench measurements before and after the firmware update? It might be possible that some update affects graphics or processing performance.
An unchanged firmware version is really strange. Are we really told the whole truth? Still things seem like a design flaw that has been worked around with some large software update (10.4.3), maybe in combination with some firmware update, but without new firmware version. Mysterious.
So far the same here. Over 6 hrs uptime, tried QT fullscreen multiple times, iTunes visualiser fullscreen, QT in Safari, slideshow in Finder -- not freezing.
The only other thing I need to check is sleeping, didn't have time to do that so far.
Okay, but what about fan/lockup problem during the energy saver/screen saver mode that the PowerMac G5 1.8 SP (2003) is experiencing.
Probably this update might fix it too, but we are left out in the cold.
First I want to say that its good to see that Apple were indeed working on this issue. To be honest I had my doubts.
By the way my Boot ROM Version, still: 5.2.2f2. This is very strange!?
Anyway down to business... I installed the update last night and went to bed. Got up this morning and checked my Up-time, 8Hr 39Min. Headed for iTunes and put on my current favourite track. Headed for full screen Visualiser and crossed my fingers (this ALWAYS used to Freeze my Mac up if it had been up for more than two hours). It worked, I smiled! Headed off to the Quicktime page on Apple's web site (again a certain freeze up b4), it loaded OK, I smiled again! Watched a movie trailer, still no freeze-up. I downloaded the King Kong Trailer and watched it in full screen, no freeze, I smiled a BIG smile!! I can watch two movies at once without a freeze!
Energy saver: The CD drawer seems to work OK now when I have Energy saver set up for sleep. With the Processor Performance set to Auto and all the sleep settings set up to put the Mac to sleep after 10 Min I left the Mac alone for an hour and crossed my fingers. When I came back I twiddled the mouse and she sprang to life, I smiled! The colorsync profile had not changed, still my calibrated profile.
Slideshows: Full screen always a crash, not any more!!
Summary: So far so good. I am a happy bunny. I have a Mac, finally, which will do all I want it to without any hassle. Thank you Apple for listening and doing something about it!
I hope all the rest of you out there have as much success as I seem to have had!!
