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

Good tip - thanks. All that stuff was set to 'never,' but 'processor
performance' was set to 'automatic.' I switched it to 'highest,' and
have my fingers crossed.

gh
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On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:18 AM, James Beedy 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
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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
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