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

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 that¹s 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:

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> 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.
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> jamie beedy
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> On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Greg Huson wrote:
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>> > 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
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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.
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>> > Thanks in advance for any tips or clues.
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>> > gh
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