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Version: Aug 2005
Dual G5 no longer boots
Feedback Type: Troubleshooting Report
Contributed by: tjl226 Friday, August 12 2005 @ 05:45 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
I have a dual G5 2.7GHz with an X800 XT installed. Applying this ROM update went fine, but upon reboot, the Mac gets to the desktop images, and then hangs. Spinning beachball and everything. ATI doesn't know what to do in the short term, and I have a ticket open and am waiting for them to get back to me. VERY frustrating. I expected more from ATI. So now I run in Safe Boot mode, at least I can do some things. Any suggestions? I've repaired permissions (nothing looked related, didn't expect it to be) and sent them all console logs and System Profiler info. Not sure what else I can do but wait.
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Dual G5 no longer boots - a2daj
Oh, one more thing to try. Can you create a new user and log in with that account?Friday, August 12 2005 @ 08:13 PM PDT
Dual G5 no longer boots - tjl226
Hey man thanks for writing in.I went from ROM109 to 108, no change. Then to 104. No change.
I reapplied Drivers 4.5.1, no change.
I reinstalled OSX 10.4.2, again no change.
Tried your suggestions, threw out
ATI Monitor.plist
ATIMonitor.plist
ATIDisplay3.plist
No change.
Tried a new user. No change.
I see some really weird messages in the console log, however:
Aug 13 19:45:16 thomas-lepores-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSReadObjectFromCString is obsolete. Use of this function may cause an overall degradation in the performance of this application, or of the system as a whole.
Aug 13 19:45:16 thomas-lepores-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSCreateDictionary is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Aug 13 19:45:16 thomas-lepores-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSDictionary is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Aug 13 19:45:16 thomas-lepores-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSDictionarySetObjectForKey is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Aug 13 19:45:16 thomas-lepores-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSSetGStateAttribute is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Aug 13 19:45:16 thomas-lepores-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSGetElementForCStringKey is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Aug 13 19:45:16 thomas-lepores-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSDictionaryObjectForKey is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Ideas?
Thanks!!
-TJ
Saturday, August 13 2005 @ 04:50 PM PDT
Dual G5 no longer boots - tjl226
The original poster here again. I had to revert to an older ROM version (104 works, don't know about the others) and then use FontAgent to find and remove corrupted fonts. Not sure why this was an issue all of a sudden after a ROM update. Weird. After 1.5 weeks, am finally back up and running normally again. Sheesh.Monday, August 22 2005 @ 09:03 PM PDT
Dual G5 no longer boots - a2daj
Did you previously install the 109 ROM released in May? If so, then technically, nothing major should have happened, but apparently something did... Have you tried flashing to the 104 ROM? It's possible that a preference is corrupt. Try dumping the ATI related preferences. Does your console.log say anything?Reply to This
Friday, August 12 2005 @ 08:12 PM PDT