Power Mac G5 1.8ghz Dual Boot Problem

Issues booting from DVD (To Re-Install OS) and the internal disk.

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Education

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• PowerMac
• G5
• Boot
• Issues

[Chipudnik]

is the Leopard DVD machine specific? is it your optical drive or your hard disk? perhaps your firmware needs an update, my g5 is the exact same one you have, and i was having issues too, i ended up installing on another machine and cloning the drive... you could also firewire target disk mode it and thus bypass the install.

[stilb1986]

@Chipudnik This computer is long gone... I left it up for others if they have the same or similar...

[17fattys]

im thinking of buying a powermac g5 1.8ghz dual, do u think it will be fast enough for general computing?

[stilb1986]

@17fattys Nah, it felt like a slow piece of shit. You can check email on it with no issues but for anything else it is a joke. It was a heavy brick taking up space in my office. You can get one for 300-500 on craigslist however you might as well get the new Mac Mini and call it a day. It would kick the Power Mac's ass by like 5 times.

[mi16t]

Also, the hard drive could be toast.

If it was the cpu nothing would be on the screen, same with ram, video etc.

Make sure you are using power pc discs or universal install disks.

Are you using a aftermarket video card? that can give you this error too.

I ve had this happen when i used a newer video card with a old system disc. Swapping in the original card allowed me to install. LET ME KNOW!!! Im quite knowledgeable with macs.

[stilb1986]

@mi16t It would not boot from any of those locations properly. I was thinking the mother board... but then again it would not get that far either, so I ended up not knowing and selling it for parts. The funny thing about their test was one part would be okay, then the other would fail, that one got replaced then something else would fail... in a circle.

[Deathclockcinema]

I have the same problem but i didnt use the disk one day i powered my mac off and the next day it boots up fine and then it shows the apple logo and the spining weel and then it shuts off and back on BY ITSELF and the fans go crazy like a jet engine and then it does that process OVER AND OVER AGAIN untill I fully shut it down CAN ANYONE HELP?

[leethax26]

.. a Liquid Coolant Problem..

[CaptainDarren82]

@stilb1986 I have that same exact machine, and it's extremely fast! I don't know how yours may have been configured, but if you're talking about slow, go and see G3 machines. Of course a new Mac Mini would be alot faster with iMovie, or final cut pro, but this is not a slow piece of shit. This is a powerful machine which can handle 1080HD on youtube, crunch a 15 minute movie on iMovie in 10 minutes, and with an SSD it boots 10.5 in 6 seconds. It's not slow.

[jimgeo1000]

@17fattys yes, this is a very fast computer. i do everything on this computer, and like apple says, it just works.

[SquickenX]

@17fattys /watch?v=tAYONl2ii0E&feature=r­elated

[The91489]

all macs fail enough said get a pc an be done with it 

[TheDadymike1]

You need a Dual layer dvd drive for lepoard to boot. Leopard dvd is a dual layer disc.  I had the same problem.