Having a problem with my PowerMac 2.5 Quad overheating. Within 5 min of operation a red light turns on and then a few min later it goes into sleep mode.
I'm not doing anything unusual, whether I am on the internet(Safari) or using any internal apple app or other app installed. ??
Final Cut Pro 6, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Hi, it's likely time to replace the thermal paste on the CPUs, have you blown the dust out lately?
Liquid cooled G5s may require a rebuild of the LCS also.
Short term you might get it to run longer in System Preferences>Energy Saver>Options tab& checking Processor Performance>Reduced near the bottom.
Hi, it's likely time to replace the thermal paste on the CPUs, have you blown the dust out lately?
Liquid cooled G5s may require a rebuild of the LCS also.
Short term you might get it to run longer in System Preferences>Energy Saver>Options tab& checking Processor Performance>Reduced near the bottom.
@ BDAqua,
Is there instructions how to do this? How much paste is needed?
So I blew out the dust, not that there was very much. I noticed a couple of small dust bunnies were dislodged from the cooling system, where they went ?? and this may have been the fix. During the process the red tube from the can of air flew into the cavity and got stuck between some screws. I finally got it out but not before tuning the com completely upside down a few times. I also depressed the reset button on the logic board.
The com has been running youtube videos now for close to 2 hours without a red warning light or going into sleep mode. Hopefully it is fixed.
Thanks for your help.
Ah, good to hear,but what temps are you getting?
Get Temperature Monitor...
http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html
I tried temp monitor. Had a warning that it would corrupt HD. Downloaded the file but it said it was not running(working) trashed it.
Seems after about 4 hrs. of operation the com goes to sleep with no red light warning. Restart and it goes for about 20 min and goes to sleep. with red light warning. ??
Not fixed yet. ??
Hmmm, very strange on the corruption thing!???
Correct, not fixed, temps are better with less dust, but I still think it's thermal paste and/or LCS issue.
Did you try the Reduced processor? Runs half speed & cooler.
PowerMac 2.5 quad over heating
