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My G5 occasionally wont boot up. After about 20/30 seconds

 
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My G5 occasionally won't boot up. After about 20/30 seconds the disc drive starts and my solution has been to unplug, wait for a minute or two, plug in and try again. What might the problem be?

 

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Submitted: 340 days and 16 hours ago.
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Expert:  Ashik replied 340 days and 14 hours ago.

Hello and welcome to JustAnswer. I look forward to assisting you today with your question and providing the best answer possible.

Have you did any hardware/software upgrade recently ?

Customer replied 340 days and 11 hours ago.

No. Last software upgrade was approximately one year ago.

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Expert:  Ashik replied 340 days and 11 hours ago.

We can try some basic troubleshooting steps and see if that works or not.

Reset PRAM and NVRAM (Solution 1)

  1. Shut down your Mac
  2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R.
  3. Turn on the computer.
  4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears and before the chime sound.
  5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for three times.
  6. Release the keys.



Restart in Safe mode
(Solution 2)
Make sure that the computer is shut down. Press the power button. Immediately after you hear the startup tone, press and hold the Shift key. Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple and progress indicator. Let the Mac boot up...


Run Disk Utility in Single User Mode(Solution 3)
Turn your Mac off. Turn it back on and this time hold down the Command (Apple) key and the S keys at the same time. Then type the following command...

/sbin/fsck -fy (note the space between fsck and -fy)

If you can't run /sbin/fsck - fy then type only fsk - fy

Hit return and the disk utility should run and let it finish. When it finishes and there is no error, then type reboot and hit return. Let the Mac boot up. (Disk Utility will fix all system errors, bad preferences files etc)

Let me know if that didn't worked. Only click Accept after we solved the problem



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Customer replied 340 days and 10 hours ago.

Tried Solution 1. Didn't work first time (disc drives started up at high speed again) but OK second time. No signal input but OK when I rebooted monitor and reset resolution. Problem: As this is an intermittent fault, how will I know if this option has been successful? Also, I usually switch off at the end of the day but does it harm the computer to leave it switched on for several days?

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Expert:  Ashik replied 340 days and 10 hours ago.

Add a bookmark of this page, so you can get back to me if it happens again.

No, leaving switched on won't harm but make sure you put it to Sleep if you are not using it. Also if you don't use it for long time, I'd recommend to turn it off.

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