The awesome Mac Pro Quad Core
Those of you that have been reading the post on silencing a Powermac G4 Mirror Drive Door (MDD) will be pleased to know that the old girl is still going strong as I sold my MDD to a mate( it’s now used as the recording workstation for our band- The Single Fins). I then bought from a mac reseller in Melbourne Victoria, Australia, a second hand Powermac Dual G5 2.5 tower for $Au 999.
From day one I had numerous crashes & startup problems with it, not the least being the fans went at full speed and didnt shut up! I spent countless hours reinstalling it, unplugging RAM, doing all sorts of diagnostics to it, but no joy. After the first repair in which they calibrated the fans( after 2 tries), It worked Ok for a week or so, then started crashing & not starting up properly. In fact some times I had to hard restart it from between 3 times up to 12 times, just to get to the desktop.
After the second repair( and 3 more weeks in the shop), they replaced the new logic board , 2 new processors (one was DOA), tried new video cards etc etc.. Apple couldnt fix it so they decided to replace it with a brand new 2.66 Quad Core Mac Pro.
No more sleep issues, crashes etc…This thing is sooooo quick and incredibly silent.
suffice to say… I’m one happy camper.
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