[G5] G5 Boot Problem

[Steve Goldstein]

Come to think of it, a few months back when my wife tried to update her 
G5 20" iMac with the latest--10.5.7 at the time, as I recall--she got a 
hung machine, and nothing worked, and she had to try to re-install the 
OS from a 10.5 install disk. And, that did not work.  She got as far as 
what looked to be the final screen, and it just hung.  We tried it over 
and over, and then borrowed a 10.5 install disk from our son, thinking 
that perhaps there might have been something wrong with our disk.  But, 
no, that did not work either.  So, we took it to the Genius bar, and 
they could not get it to load the system completely.  So, very kindly, 
they installed a complete 10.5.7 image from a HD that they had on hand.  
They thought it might be persnickety memory, even though we had been 
using it for years.  I have since installed additional and new memory.  
But, we have not tried to update further.  The G5 iMac at least works OK 
now.

BTW, that G5 is our "spare" machine that, for the most part, sits on our 
sun porch and is used by visiting grand kids, or is a standby for Skype 
calls from abroad.  Each of us has an Intel iMac upstairs that serves as 
our everyday Mac.

--Steve (Mac user since 1988)

On 10/1/09 3:07 PM, Ken Schneider wrote:
> I would check the RAM with something like TechTool Pro or Rember.  Bad 
> RAM can cause boot problems.
>