[Hidden-tech] G5 issues

[Will Loving]

I have a 2.5Ghz dual G5 tower which has not had any problems with
overheating nor have I heard of any overheating problems. There have been
some problems with fans sometimes operating overly loudly, but this seems to
have been fixed since about 10.3.6 or 10.3.7.

There have also been some problem with the earliest 17" G5 iMacs resulting
in a higher than normal failure rate, at least in part due to some bad
capacitors. This seems to have been fixed in the most recent versions as
well.

The Macintouch.com website recently did a reader survey of failure rates on
all G5 models with interesting results. Most were about industry standard
except for the original 17" G5 iMac. Unfortunately the survey results seem
to be missing from the Macintouch site.

Will

Will Loving, President
Dedication Technologies, Inc.





on 7/8/05 10:44 AM, kreekle at kreekle.com at kreekle at kreekle.com wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone has had problems with G5s. I've heard that the fans
> are inadequate and there are problems with overheating.
> This may have only been a problem when they first came out.
> 
> Also, other people have said this but I thought I'd mention that Quark 5 is
> really buggy. I'd go to 6.5 or stay with 4.1.


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