28 Dec
2011
28 Dec
'11
1:55 a.m.
At 5:33 PM -0800 12/27/11, Jim Arnott wrote:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I ended up putting an Intel GigE PCI-X card in it, *thankfully* that
worked. Finally it got to the point where it wouldn't boot normally
(reloading the OS did nothing at that point). This happened right
after the late-2010 models were announced and I was able to limp
along until they were available. For some reason while a fresh OS
install didn't help, it was able to boot into safe mode under 10.4.
And of course I still have it. ;-) I wouldn't mind being able to revive it.
Zane
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I managed to get nearly 7 years out of my Rev.0
Dual 2Ghz G5
PowerMac, and I'm a heavy Photoshop user. Granted I was ready to
replace it at about 5 years, but limped on for a couple more. My
primary problem was I needed more RAM (I had 7 of the 8Gb
possible). The hardware finally gave out on me (the onboard
ethernet died about 3 years before the rest of the system).
Did you reload the OS after the Ethernet failed? An archive and
install has fixed that very problem on a handful of Macs I've had
that failure on. Stumbled on the fix by accident. Was cleaning up a
princess leia makeup mirror G4 iMac that I'd switched to wireless
years earlier due to the E-net failure. Plugged it into the network
and magically the Software updates started loading. No airport
configured.
You might give it a try if you still have the box.