My Power Mac G5 is freezing up. A few days ago my G5 started freezing up, the cursor is unresponsive and none of the keys have any use. I have to press the power button to shut down and then restart. Sometimes on the restart, instead of the Apple logo I g

Thanks Again! During the download it was running 5-8MB/sec.

1. Is this a sign the old hard drive was not spinning up to speed?

2. Added the old HD to Privacy pane. That seems to have slowed the CPU down, now lower idle numbers.

3. However, when I put the computer to sleep now, the screen goes to sleep but the motors/fan keep running. I have to press the power button to shut down. And have had 1 freeze today, much better than before, but was hoping that would go away with the new install on new HD.

4. Should I still get Disk Warrior and run on old or new disk. Can that maybe fix the old HD?

Thanks Again!

Computer kept freezing all day yesterday... but finally got Applejack installed and ran it last night.

I ran Applejack on the new HD, after starting from the new HD, last night. AJ did it's thing and afterwards everything, so far, seems to be running fine.

Then, I changed my startup disk from the new HD to the old HD, and started up Applejack on that drive. It frooze immediately. It would not run Applejack completely. Kept getting message, something like, "hang up here". I try it several times, to run Applejack, and kept getting same message.. it wouldn't let me type in "applejack auto restart" or type in anything. It would just start and then give me the "hang up here" message with some coding.

So, tried to startup "normally" on the old HD. As soon as the white screen, Apple logo spinning gear, page would come up, a see thru dark curtain would drop down saying I need to press the power button to restart in several languages.. also on this screen was an overlay of the Applejack script which had hung up. Tried to restart "normally" several times on the old HD and kept getting same message.

So, I changed back to the new HD for startup. And this morning have completely removed the old HD, taken it out of the G5, and just left the one, new HD in the G5. So far, it seems to be fine.

A portion of me wanted to keep messing with the old HD to see if I could fix it. But, if it is a bad or failing HD, I guess this is a lost cause. The new HD is in place and seems to be working fine. It seems that all of my data is on the new HD so all of that is OK. The only thing now is to get another HD to put in G5 for future backup and problems.

So, does any of this sound right? Is the old HD gone?? And was that, probably, the problem all along?

Applejack has seemed to make a difference, and I'll get a new Hd and backup again with SuperDuper.

Any other suggestions????

Ok,, still some issues... could be non-related, don't know.

1) Now when I put the computer to sleep and try to wake, I get a black screen. Have to shut down with power button and restart twice. First restart comes up with black screen too, second time am able to restart. but..

2) On the restart, the first screen that comes has a little Mac/smiley face folder with a question mark... them after a few seconds, the Apple logo with spinning gear comes up and then proceeds a normal.

Sorry to keep bothering you... but any and all ideas GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!! In getting this machine back to normal!!!

Assigned startup disk... that fixed that.

Downloaded OSX 10.5.8 update, froze up a couple times during that, but finally got it downloaded. Keep trying to repair permissions... but it keeps freezing up before I can get thru. Have to push power button to shut down. Tried two restarts, both with black screens, shut down. Third try it came up and am now typing this.

About at my last wits end. I don't know why this thing keeps freezing up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reloaded OS X 10.5.8 repaired permissions, etc. Still freezing. Have to restart 2-3 times to get it to come up. Now, white Apple logo screen has "applejack" type info, way above my pay grade. Wrote down what I could.. says things like

System Failure cpu=0 code 00000001 (currupt stack)

backtrace terminated frame outside of ram

Proceeding back via exception chain

backtrace terminated frame not mapping or invalid

BSD process name corresponding to current threads- usbmuxd

" ''""""" ""' """ - core serviced

gives a lot of code in between all of this stuff

don't know how to copy page/log to show full page

any of this tell anything?? any hope????

Ran AHT

Logic Board Error Detected

Error Code Error Code

2STH/1/3: CPU A AD7417AD 1

I'm guessing this is not good

CPU A Die Temp -35.3C/-31.6F

CPU B Die Temp 56.7C/134.1F

Sometimes CPU B has no readings, die, voltage, current, etc... shows as "disconnected" then magically reappears.

What is ASD? Novice here!!!!

Don't know how to swap or turn off CPU. Is it as easy as video card?

ASD?????

Gave Die temp to old comma guy.

Option 3 ??? Buy new computer???

Keeps freezing up... 3 restarts to type this.

Now this is weird. Have used Pages for 45 minutes, then listened to some music on iTunes for another +/- 45 minutes.... and it doesn't freeze. What's up with that? Freezes in Safari and mail... and now,when I close Mail, the window closes but the app keeps running. If it does not freeze up first.