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

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
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