I have I think the early 2005 model. It has dual 2.5 GHz Power PC G5s, two 512 MB sticks of PC3200.
I bought the machine from a guy who said he couldn't get an OS on it, but that it also passed all the hardware diagnostics tests fine.
So, when I boot it I get the mac sound, the fans rev up for a second then slow back down to normal, the screen comes on black for a second and then comes off.
On better boots, if that's a good term for it, I get the same as above, followed by my optical mouse lighting up and a happy mac / question mark logo popping up.
If my Tiger DVD is in then it will boot to the apple logo then just sit there. Right now I did that, using command + V and I get the following text:
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
vm_page_bootstrap: 251955 free pages
mig_table_max_displ = 70
Copyright © 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
using 2621 buffer headers and 2621 cluster IO buffer headers
Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleSEP" has no kernel dependency.
DART enabled
On one boot, in verboose mode I got several audio "com.apple" related things come up.
And on one boot I actually was able to hit the blue arrow and enter the installer, however I didn't have a hard drive installed!
It eventually gets noisy when it's on too, the fans get up to full speed in a few minutes or so while the machine is either frozen or idle.
So any help is greatly appreciated. I understand these problems can be a pain, so I'm willing to describe everything exactly as it is to get the best help and in return try and help others on this board. I've worked on plenty of PCs and am finding this similar but different... there are some unknowns and of cource I don't just have spare parts kicking around. If possible, could a moderator move this to the apple hardware section?
Thanks,
Ben
Ok, tried again and got past the "DART enabled" line.
Here's what follows:
Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleDACAAudio" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.Apple02Audio" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.Apple02DBMAAudio" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.Apple02DBMAAudio" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleTexasAudio" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.Apple02Audio" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.Apple02DBMAAudio" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.Apple02DBMAAudio" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleTexasAudio" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.Apple02Audio" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.Apple02DBMAAudio" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.Apple02DBMAAudio" has no kernel dependency.
So is the soundcard smoked and that's why it isn't booting?