Re: [Avid-L2] Mac G5 help needed - Grey Screen of Death

I'll run that if it crashes again tonight - or maybe even if it
doesn't...

Thanks!

Sorry, no capital investment this quarter...

gh
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Greg Huson
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Post Production / Production
Culver City, CA
323 677 2092
323 677 2096 F
www.DigitalServiceStation.com
greg (at) SecretHQ.com
www.SecretHQ.com

On Jan 21, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Jim Feeley wrote:

> I had experiences similar to Jamie with my dual 2.5 G5. And after
> poking
> through way too many help pages and user forums, making the same
> Energy
> Saver changes as Jamie seemed to do the trick...until two RAM sticks
> started
> to die. Then when I pulled those, everything was again hunky dory
> (but still
> kinda pokey).
>
> You can test your RAM with memtest or rember. Rember just adds a GUI
> to the
> command-line memtest...but that's a good thing. Links to both here:
>
> http://www.kelleycomputing.net/rember/
>
> But really Greg, the best solution is for you to buy my G5 complete
> with
> Kona 2 card and bob. Please?
>
> Jim
>
> On 1/21/10 11:18 AM, "James Beedy" <avidlist@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I've had a couple of these machines that acted pretty much the same
> > way as what your describing and doing the same thing, using it a
> > archiving station. I reinstalled the OS from scratch, pulled and
> > swapped out RAM Sticks, swapped out hard drives, all with no change.
> > About the only way that I could get these to work somewhat reliably,
> > was to go to energy saver in system prefs and never let the computer
> > or the displays go to sleep. Had one machine that did this all the
> > time, and with making these changes, I currently have a uptime on
> that
> > machine of 65 days. Give it a shot. Of course, your milage may vary.
> > Good luck.
> >
> > jamie beedy
> >
> > On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Greg Huson wrote:
> >
> >> > I have a last-generation G5- the dual-dual, (4 x 2.5) with 8
> gig ram
> >> > (8 1-gig SDRam) running 10.5.7
> >> >
> >> > about once a day, it just crashes to the 'grey screen of
> death.' This
> >> > is the machine we use the least, so it hasn't been that big of a
> >> > deal, but it's also the machine we're TRYING to use as an
> archiving
> >> > station. Naturally, when it crashes during a long LTO or drive
> copy,
> >> > it's very frustrating.
> >> >
> >> > Anyone seen this problem before, or have a suggestion where to
> start
> >> > looking for the trouble? As far as I know, it's done this for
> years-
> >> > we just never paid much attention to it. May have done it when it
> >> > was new, but 'back then' (5 years ago?) we didn't leave it on for
> >> > extended periods of time. This system's had a variety of boards
> and
> >> > applications on it- nothing like that seems to effect it one
> way or
> >> > the other.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks in advance for any tips or clues.
> >> >
> >> > gh
> >> > ----------------------------------------------------
> >> > Greg Huson
> >> > Secret Headquarters, Inc
> >> > Post Production / Production
> >> > Culver City, CA
> >> > 323 677 2092
> >> > 323 677 2096 F
> >> > www.DigitalServiceStation.com
> >> > greg (at) SecretHQ.com
> >> > www.SecretHQ.com
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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> --
> Jim Feeley
> POV Media
>
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