crap mac
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- BonSeff
so i have this g5 that keeps crashing. replaced the hd, ram and the logic board.
everytime it crashes we have to run applejack to get it back..
this ever happen to any of yous?
what the hell could it be? its a work machine so there aint no pr0nz on it!
- version30
genius bar set an ied in there
- Atkinson0
the guy on the next desk taking the piss?
- quest760
when does it crash? before or after start-up?
any devices plugged in?
or recently installed?
- BonSeff0
ive basically rebuilt the whole damn machine. apple warrantied the logic board, installed a week or so ago. reinstalled the os. i just think its a monday mac
- morilla0
I have a 1.6 for sale... ;)
- BonSeff0
just have a couple 20 cinemas hooked up, an ethernet cable and headphones..
- k0na_an0k0
does it get shut down regularly?
- shutting them off once or twice a week, and over the weekend i've always done for years and never had a problemhow old is it? how exactly does it do it's madness?
- at the last company i was at, it was an older g5 1.6Ghz. it would randomly just go black (the screen) a few times a day. turns out it was the fan going bad and the cpu was at it's max degree and was shutting off as not to overheat. the quick fix was to buy a small fan and put it on the desk blowing at the g5. the real fix was replacing the fan.hope that helps.
- BonSeff0
i shut it down everynight.
i just think the machine is a lemon.
fresh out of the box, i plug it in and boom! goes the power supply. sounded like .357 went off.
downhill from there.. this machine is about 8months old. when the fans go, it sounds like a freakin jet engine.
- mrdobolina0
it probably is heat, nine times out of ten with sudden crashes I notice it is heat. put an ice pack on it.
- quest760
so when exactly does it crash?
- akoni0
could be a short
- BonSeff0
it crashes apprx every 8 working days.. like fucking clockwork. those times when i have done a lot of work and havent saved for about 40 minutes
- BonSeff0
the processors basically have a fucking mini fridge cooling them. i dont get it
- Rand0
did it always crash, or did this develop gradually?
- tonx0
clear your cache.
- skelly_b0
We had a lemon at my old job. Same thing we replaced all the same items and it turned out it needed a new processor, everything else was fine to begin with.
- quest760
as lame as this might sound have your tried resetting your PRAM?
APPLE+OPT+P+R
what about memory?
i had a huge problem with bad memory.. i had a bad chip and it would freeze / crash my machine randomly.. for moths i thought it was a heating issue.. i even took it into an apple store and they're so called "genius" people couldn't figure it out.it turned out that the memory chip was causing it. so if you bought memory separate for the machine try taking it out and see what happens.
the memory read fine on my machine, but it still caused havoc
for a few months till i figured it outby the way.. the people at apple's genius bar are a bunch
of pricks! they treat everyone as if they're mac gods.
there are people that do know how to run a mac!!
- designerror0
check this out
http://doomlaser.com/?p=12I pulled this prank on a guy at work and didn't say a word until it was about to get shipped to the Apple store... Needless to say, his was pretty god damn piss when I told him, properly still is..
- ninjasavant0
You have applecare, right? Read the agreement, there's a clause in there that says if repairs on covered parts takes an unreasonable amoumt of time or is consistently failing (basically a lemon) they will replace the machine with either the same model or the current model filling that market space.
I got a new powerbook from an apple store a year and a half ago for that exact reason. You might want to bring that up with the tech manager next time you bring it in. But be civil about it because its a manager's discretion kinda thing.
- orkman0
they treat everyone as if they're mac gods.
quest76
(Jun 13 07, 15:33)"Ray, the next time someone asks you if you are a mac god, you say YES!"