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Posted by: Christopher on 2010-04-26 19:59:24
Well, one of the bigger churches in my churches network has a small recording studio for spoken word stuff and they have dual 2GHz(early 2005) G5 sitting around. I asked about and my friend who asked the head audio tech said it was "dead".
I've been my friends computer support for a while so when they say "dead" it's as simple as a messed up system file or bad OS install. So I have a little bit of hope for it.
What I want to know is, what are the known problem of early 2005 G5 towers?
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Posted by: Mars478 on 2010-04-27 08:39:28
Leaky caps sometimes...
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Posted by: Paralel on 2010-04-27 08:53:04
Didn't the cooling systems also have a tendency to go "Splooge!" at any given moment?
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Posted by: zerotypeq on 2010-04-27 12:46:06
If you mean the watercooled G5s they would leak not just spew everywhere at once (in the cases I am familiar with anyways), but I don't think the dual g5s are water cooled. The g5 I had was a dual 2ghz iirc and it wasn't water cooled.
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Posted by: ~Coxy on 2010-05-04 22:29:15
Early 2005 is presumably a dual-core model and while I think the top end was water-cooled, the low end dual 2GHz was definitely standard and ought to be pretty reliable.
Probably a bad OS install, perhaps dead GPU.
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Posted by: Mars478 on 2010-05-05 07:11:11
Yeah I've seen so many times people describe computers as "Dead" and they just needed a reinstall. 😀
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2010-05-06 05:21:10
The thing is, to most people, needing a reinstall does = dead...for Macs it might be different, but as far as PCs go I've owned quite a few machines that I've gotten for cheap or free just because they required a reinstall, most people don't know how to do it themselves and quite frankly don't want to, and with the computer shops in town charging around $80/hour its usually worth it to ditch the machine and replace it.
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