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

I would suspect the power supply might be iffy. I've lost one on a pc but before it died it would get wonky if say two of the dvd drives were being used. In other words it was just barely supplying enough power to run the system and then it wouldn't even do that. Just a guess but the power supply is one of the hardest working components in the box.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson <Greg@...> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

------------------------------------

Please donate to the Red Cross to help those in earthquake ravaged Haiti: http://www.redcross.org/en/donatemoney

Search the offical complete Avid-L archives at: http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/

Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Avid-L2/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Avid-L2/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
Avid-L2-digest@yahoogroups.com
Avid-L2-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
Avid-L2-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/