Apple G5 Quad - thermal mgmt issues?

[Rob Ballantyne]

Thanks Justin!

Does anyone have good pointers to places that may have old G5 Quads for
sale?  In the event I need to find replacement parts?

Shipping would be cheaper if they were either in Canada or the Pacific
North West.

Thanks!
Rob



On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> I experience similar problems with my two G5 Quads, they thermal
> shutdown after a short time under heavy load, and the fans and LCS
> spun up to loudest.  It's likely aging hardware, you might want to run
> the Apple diagnostics, or perform a load test with OS X, that might
> point you to any hardware failures.
>
> - Justin
>
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Rob Ballantyne
> <robballantyne3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >   I had a quick search of the bugs.freebsd.org database and couldn't
> find
> > anything but I wasn't sure I was searching properly.
> >
> >   I'm having my G5 Quad shutdown while trying to compile packages after a
> > fresh 11.1 install.  I've had thermal mgmt issues in the past but not for
> > a long time.
> >
> >   Are there any known issues currently? Or, should I suspect my machine's
> > hardware is failing?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Rob
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