Re: My g5 won’t boot [message #368550] |
Sun, 03 June 2018 15:24 |
Kris Tilford
Messages: 133 Registered: August 2012
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On Jun 3, 2018, at 2:14 PM, smac0031 <m.smurph001@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Some progress. I swapped 3.6 batteries. I got it to chime and PR. It booted up. I put a bootable dvd drive genius in the optical. I rebooted, no chime, I could hear the voicing coil searching a few times, then it spun up and stopped. It just sits there with the power on doing nothing.
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> I think it would boot if I could get the dvd out of the optical. I normally don’t shut this thing off, I just let it sleep on the ups.
If you hold the mouse button during startup, the disc should eject before trying to boot.
After the PRAM is reset, sometimes it loses the boot device, so holding the Option key and explicitly selecting the boot drive can get you to boot. Then it’s probably best to open System Preference>Startup Disk and again, explicitly select your startup disk to be certain it’s loaded into PRAM for the next reboot.
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