I don’t know it is bad luck or something else, but I have certainly experienced my share of hardware flaws and failures with Apple products over the years. I am not talking about more or less predictable failures here, like conventional hard drives failing after a few years, or power adapter cords becoming frayed (although […]
The G5 Quad is still dead. Apple is sending me a new Mac Pro.
The red LED is back for good this time. Looks like a bad CPU unit to me.
Repair shop swaps the logic board, and the machine is still freezing.
The G5 Quad freezes, but I can still log in remotely and everything looks peachy in Terminal!
After 11 days of perfect normalcy, the machine kernel panics on me.
Now the G5 Quad refuses to freeze. Could it be the video card and the use of a secondary monitor?
After a month of freezes and kernel panics, the machine is now well and truly dead.
More inconclusive testing, more questions, and no solution.
The configuration of LaunchBar that I use is quite clearly what makes the G5 Quad so slow with only 512 MB of RAM.
It turns out that running with 512 MB can be done after all… The problem clearly lies with third-party utilities.
Faulty third-party RAM allows me to travel back in time.
I haven’t written on this blog since last year and my very traumatic experience with upgrading my 2014 Mac Pro to OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). It’s not that I don’t have anything more to say about OS X or other topics. It’s just that I find it less time-consuming and more immediate to post things on Twitter, […]