Apple iMac G5 Won't Boot (Cheap eBay Find) - Krazy Ken's Tech Misadventures
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- Krazy Ken snagged this iMac G5 from eBay, but it won't boot. Today, he tries to fix it, but The Curse has other plans. Also, thanks to Greg Hrutkay, Jay from House of Moth, and Michael Stanhope. Check out the iMac G5 prototype below…
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Krazy Ken's Tech Misadventures - Apple iMac G5 Won't Boot (Cheap eBay Find)
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I had that problem with the dvd drive
I do have an airport card a available, taken from working g5 and switched to ethernet, selling for £5 ($7 approx and not including posting fees) so not sure if u want it but tell me if you do.
Did you tell the seller that you fixed/didn't, if so what did they say.
sorry to bother but do you have a copy of any ppc os? i couldn´t find them anywhere i´m stuck with the same problem
"Got the light, got the bong."
Got the weed
A fine mac, you got a bong, you're gonna be fine
Vedant Ganesh if you get beeps, you are in trouble
Bjhh
Probably explains why the crack marketing team brought the bong back
Great video, love these old Mac videos, they where so easy to work on.
HELLO HUGH
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Got;ffju
Ohai, Hugh!
@@ComputerClan lol a year later :D
Yeah put an Airport card in it, replace that cap, replace the thermal compound and clean the heatsink
Yep, and do that for the GPU as well as the CPU. I have one of these machines and it seems to have suffered GPU heat damage.
yea.. looking at that bulging cap i got so worried
Can't do that with a current Mac anymore... I used to kinda like old Apple products but now it's going towards stupidity
@@user-jt1tp1jh9o I thought they've been that way for years, modern Apple I mean.
@@user-jt1tp1jh9o you cant open up a mac anymore??
Ken: "How are you guys doing today?"
Some people watching Ken: "bad I broke up with my GF
Ken: "Really? That's just great!"
If she left you that easily she didn't love you in the first place
savio barbar who hurt you man?
@@user-noobmaster you don’t know why she left hom
Ken: How ya doing?
Me: Bad, Can't sleep
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Me:
Overused (For me)
Me: kay
LOL
No joke, the whole "create a partition and use target disk mode" trick was what I did with my recently acquired Power Mac G4 tower. DVD drive didn't like my Tiger disc, so I used my Powerbook G4 (which had it's own installation hell for leopard, since the superdrive in it was dead (lol)) to act as a source for the tiger install dmg.
It worked. :D
I did kinda the same with my iMac G5 17" and my 20" Intel iMac Early 2006, the G5 had a dead optical drive so I restored a Leopard install image on a partition of the G5 on TGM using the iMac 20" 😂
It worked too
Yep same here except I didn’t restore a dvd to the drive and then install it I just threw my Powermac G4 into target disc mode and restored my tiger partition from my iBook to the powermac
@@MrPufins haha nice!
@@antares2323 Just now saw this -- That's basically what I did with the PowerBook G4 to get it going originally. Made a partition on it for leopard and put the install files on that, then once leopard was installed nuked that.
Did that, however, with an external drive thing we had at work which I had a chance to borrow -- bought some Firewire cables which came in handy for the G4 tower a few weeks later when I got it.
Funny how we all find solutions to our systems quirks. I think it's why I like the vintage mac community, we're oddly resourceful!
That beautiful thin enclosure will run you $999, thank you very much!
I'd bet they were using that machine to deploy OS 10.5 Intel on newer machines through target disk mode which is why it was formatted the way it was, or it was in an Intel iMac and the hard drive died and nobody bothered with it because they didn't realize they had to redo the hard drive to boot on PPC. Those never came with a 500gb hard drive.
Mike's Mac Shack Yeah I think you're almost definitely correct.
Mike's Mac Shack which video of yours feature that prototype ken mentioned?
Check the caps even when they look fine they can still be bad especially rot caps of the early to mid 2000s.
I had one of these given to me where the bulge was actually pushing the case apart. Still ran though, but would shut down after 30 mins.
I love it when a super frustrating problem ends up having a simple but not so obvious fix. I know that feel when the CD finally ejected.
Awesome I really love the nostalgia with these older machines and love the older versions of Mac OS ! I also was soo excited for every new release of Mac OS all those years ago ! Of course I still am but it’s no where near the same excitement ! Keep up the awesome work !
13:29 That firewire logo is just peaking in.
XD
Ok just gonna say it. These videos are perfect. Not too much talking, right to the point, good important but short information. Very nicely done mate.
Thank you : )
I bought one back in 2015 fully working for $30. But a mouth later the capacitors blew and when we replaced all the capacitors on the motherboard, the new ones blew so we sold it for parts or not working for $35 and basically made 5 dollars 👌
lol
should've gotten actually quality caps
@@TorutheRedFox hey again
I’d never see an iMac G5 disassembled before. When you popped the back panel off in on piece, I audibly said “What!?” I just finished upgrading my 2009 iMac to an SSD. What a nightmare…
This was a Triumph, I'm making a note here huge success
Portal reference
its hard to overstate my statisfaction
Congrats!! This was really cool to watch.
I wrote tbxi boot files for OpenFirmware in the past, actually run OpenBSD on my iMac G3. U can even do art for them. If you ever wanna run anything crazy on your ppcmacs permanently. hmu
This is my first iMac I found at a flea market with the original (seen better days but still sturdy) and the computer itself works for $75. I want to do upgrades and keep it. And recently got mid 2010 iMac from a neighbor that was moving and was throwing out said screen didn’t work. Power cable, mouse & 2 wireless keyboards. Powers on just doesn’t boot up. Found to be faulty drive! So get free iMac!
TDM is just one of my favorite features in any kind of electronic ever. Really wish it was on more stuff.
From what I remember, these old Macs actually do have a manual eject mechanism on the optical drive. You're supposed to put the paper clip into one of the edges of the slot which presses a switch and pushes the disk out.
My computer has that as well
„20 minutes to 5 Businessdays“ 😂
Amazing video again - love these Mac history content videos - very sad you were put though the mess of a non-bootable Mac.
I got a fully working one in great shape for just €25,- !
Caps all still looking fine and it is soooo fast on 10.4
ERM WHAT DID I JUST SEE FROM MY OLD COMMENTS I’M CRYING
good vid as always, ken ^^
I have a Intel Imac, but I bought it for like $60 working. I also bought an Intel based mac mini that was not working, but the intel 82801 was defective. It was not letting the hard drive or dvd rom communicate, so I bought a supposedly new old stock 82801 that was preballed from Korea for like $8. It was a pain to get the old one off the board with just a heat gun, but I did get it off. Then came the fun part installing it, and in the oven it went.
I had to set my oven to 420 F and used some screws to hold the board in the air inside a glass dish, I did remove the only electrolytic cap that was on the board. Then had to let it bake for about 20 minutes until I could tell it had flowed and the chip settled properly. I pulled it out and let it cool, then replaced the cap and reassembled it, powered it on after changing the processor to an upgraded version, then updated the firmware and installed 4 gb of ram, added an ssd and it worked and still works with no problems.
I had gotten it for like $30 with free shipping originally and it was a cheap repair I also got a 110 watt psu for like $10 shipped. I guess most of the core 2 duo mac mini's won't recognize 4 gb of ram it is ddr2 667. But mine was originally a 1.83 and I switched it to a 2.0 ghz. I have 10.7.2 installed, but can' t install mountain lion or higher.
Before my old G4’s died.
I had to borrow a black MacBook to format one of them.
I had to throw the Black MacBook into target disc mode and use the G4 to set up, didn’t know you could do it the other way round.
Quiet an adventure. I love these old Macs. Got a eMac which was my first Mac, two white Macbooks
10.4 runs better on those. 10.5 is a bit too much for a mac with only 2GB of RAM. Keep that for the dual G5 towers in the future, put 10.4 on this thing.
that capacitor is extra power delivery for the RAM slots, you're going to want to get that redone, and replace all the caps while you're in there. not a hard job, and if you get POLYMER CAPS as replacements you shouldn't ever have another cap issue with them for a very long time. those macs suffer from cap plague just like the Dells of the time.
do you have a copy of tiger man?
Or just a G5 tower with One CPU would be enough for Leopard as long as you have at least 4Gb of RAM.
Sincerely, a guy who runs Leopard on a 1.8Ghz G5 tower with 6Gb of Ram and a crappt fx 5200
Leopard runs okay on my powerbook g4 with 2gb of ram. Tiger is definitely a better option though(although dual booting is preferred as you can use either)
Leopard run Fine on my iBook G4 that has 1.2 GHz G4 with 512 MB of Ram
You guys deserve way more attention
My laptop (not a MacBook) is actually does that fan blasting thing too when already turn on for several minutes lol
Wow this was cool. I'm kinda nostalgic for these because my grandma had one that I used to play games on lol.
I love the look of these Imacs!
I do too!~
“chicago, city of onions...or something”
I remember the old trick of "holding down" the mouse button on boot and it will force eject on the CD drive.
That acapella version of Exodus Honey was very nice, you should consider making more acapellas of Mac OS X intro songs
I'm glad you spotted that bulging cap.
Not a fan of the swearing but really enjoyed watching you debug the issue and get closer to the solution.
I absolutely love these videos
Thank you : )
no joke I think this is the most successful kktm video ever
I'm guessing they put a hard drive from an Intel machine into the G5, and since it was GPT it wouldn't boot, and since the optical drive seemed dead they couldn't reinstall it. This thing has definitely been violated, I think these had a cover over the hard drive, and I don't think apple would have random taped up wires stringing across...
They have a hard drive bracket.
The amount of times I've heard the Mac dong today made me so happy.
I'm stuck with an iMac G5 that only lights up the 2nd diagnostic LED when the power button is pressed without it turning the 1st off
it's probably something to do with something rattling inside the PSU and it missing a half of its parts, but idk if it should get stuck in a half-standby, half-on state though
I also never have luck with the restoration function of Disk Utility. If something works with that feature I’m always so happy.😂
Nice , time to watch this!
Yay~
Hey ! Great vid. I did service that model on ASP a long time ago. Just a little trick, no need to go to openfirmware for ejecting the disc. Just boot the computer with the click of the mouse pressed ✌
Chears !
13:47 here is the problem! "Partition Map Scheme: GUID Partition Table" OMG that was the _only_ issue with the machine! :D I looked up the iMac G5 latest model with ambient light sensor, it came with 250GB max. Surely the previous owner gave it to someone to upgrade that Hard disk (stripped screws) which was likely preformatted as GPT or even MBR when bought and they didn't understand the installer error you saw, they tried "restore" hoping this means restore the system. But it all failed because PowerPC macs only boot Apple Partition Map (APM) otherwise they would have booted into the installer at least. Maybe the optical drive did actually work while doing the upgrade because it could have gotten lose in transit when you bought it.
I found one of these in the dump a year ago with a 2TB HDD in it... still use the HDD in my main PC.
lucky
But did you dump the computer again? That's really wrong. I understand your excitement over finding such a beefy harddisk on such an old machine, but no doubt you could have salvaged more stuff from that.
@@BilisNegra I still have the computer in my mac collection. I just replaced the HDD with an different one (80GB)
@@MD-vk3bj Honestly happy to hear that!
I found one that was half gutted
You sound like a tech version of Bobby Duke Arts and honestly I'm all here for it
I miss the old OSX UI, it’s just so beautiful
oh man, if only Apple do the same opening for the next gen iMac, how easy and practical that was.
Nice Save Ken
Ken: boots up Mac G5 to boot picker. Mac G5: *jet engine revving up*
This make me feel so nostalgic.
Apple used to refer to the process of setting a boot volume (or System Folder in the pre-Mac OS X days) “blessing.” In older Mac operating systems, all you had to do was drag the Finder and the System suitcase inside the same folder, and its icon would immediately change to a picture of the original Mac-it would become “blessed.”
There’s still a _bless_ command in macOS. Do a “man bless” in Terminal.
P.S. Indeed, the Mac will eject a disc from the optical drive if you hold down the mouse button upon startup.
Nice score! The cap on the lower right corner in 22:40 looks a little round on the top
adb 23:15 yeah it is
First video I've seen from this channel in at lease 5 years.
Why so long?! : o
@@ComputerClan I forgot this channel existed.
There's a missing screw at the top of the optical drive mount, which is likely why it was loose and will become loose again.
God, we had these in the elementary school I went to. This is nostalgia for me lol.
'go for a jog with a coffee'
lolololol
xD
Check the capacitors, they were known to be leaky. I bought one from eBay at $20 cuz it couldn’t go to sleep mode and when I opened it up, the capacitors were leaky as hell with rust
There’s some breathtaking furniture made with empty g-5 CPU cases. I want the bench/coffeetable!
7:40 I know the pain, I too had an Iomega flask drive and it’s hard drive died.😢
It's great to see the G5, a much under rated mac (due to the failure rate, caused by the bad caps) I've the 20" 2.0 ghz version, which was a hand me down for a relative. I've indeed had my own miss adventures with it. Mine was unlucky enough to suffer from a bad cap syndrome, where it limped along for ages, sometimes working and then mostly not, where you would try and in vane look at ways of starting it up without it going mental, and trying to blow the wall down. Eventually though the bad caps were too much, and she died, bad times. So Ebay called and a new G5 board was ordered, and it took a while but when it came i installed it. i'd probably installed it the worst way, with the wrong tools and no real skill or talent. However, when started, she lived and is still fighting fit to this day. Anyway i hope yours bring you some enjoyment, in a way most new Macs don't really do as well.
Congrats!
Good deal, and nice video!
It is!~
I hope sometime you can do a video on the first kind of aluminum intel iMac! I recently got ahold of one of those models and I feel like they are the final crossroads between the iMac G5/ iMac G6 (White Intel) models and the later models from 2009 and onwards.
You may be able to take the Flask Drive apart to investigate the disk inside. If it is, like I assumed, a FireWire to PATA or FireWire to SATA adapter board plus a regular HDD, you can replace it with a CompactFlash card (for PATA HDD) or a SATA SSD (for SATA SSD) to make it a FireWire SSD. Then as long as you don't wreck the PCB you can drop it like no tomorrow and the SSD will survive.
That'd be fun for a future episode!
Still better than iMacs today.... (in terms of user serviceability)
grats for getting this beauty to work! oh and great video about the G4 (not this one, but the other) Lamp (I'm too lazy to comment this too). I also got two of these PowerBook G4 15", but both have the high-res-LCDs. I was using one of these for installing Leopard on a PowerBook G4 12" via Firewire - it's a great way to do that. And I got me a little collection of 8 MacBook A1181 - from 1,1 to 5,2 - even a black one. Nice story: I booted an Intel MacBook via Firewire right from a PowerBook G4 Leopard Installation (Not the installer, but the actual installation!!). Yeah, althru it's a well known fact that not only Apps are Universal Binaries, but the whole OS is, it was quite cool to really do this. May be you make a video about this procedure. Anyway, Mac On and have a good time!
I got an ad for a burrito right before the video started. now im hungry.
No curse this time! Lucky you!
Wish I had a G5, fastest pre-Mactel era Mac I had was probably my eMac. Still got it in my wardrobe, maybe I should dig it out and see if it still works...
Hi! Actually, you're not missing much performance between a eMac and an iMac G5. The G5 was not that much more faster than the G4. Where you start to see a difference is with a dual or quad G5 tower.
This mac needs hdd indicator leds and activity indicator light for the optical drive
You might want to make a video replacing the drive in the FlaskDrive
Hi! I'm replying to this 3 years later because you're about to see the inner guts of the flask drive in my June 20 episode!
@@ComputerClan ha that's awesome
Ken: okay lets start this up
Computer: You seem sweaty, lemme turn on my AC mode rq
Awesome, Ep 2?
These G5's can have the screen rewired for HDMI and a custom backlight circuit made. Can essentially make it into a Hackintosh with an Intel NUC. I got almost done with mine, but I had life stuff come up. Mine has been taken apart, unfinished, under a bed for a few years now. RIP
I got given a 2012 macbook pro and taking out the disc drive cleaning it and putting it back in worked
Wow that PowerBook still looks pretty cool and system likeb new
first mac I ever bought from the apple store.. last one too
i miss the intro videos so much wish they would bring that back
I’ve the same type of iMac G5 (though mine was free), it had an odd issue in that it would power on just fine but with no display, but lay it flat on its back and the display was fine.
Opened it up and out fell a screw… Looked over the whole system but found nowhere for it to go. Checked caps while back was off (all good) and over the last few days I’ve been configuring it with Sorbet Leopard, Final Cut Studio, a FireWire RAID box I have and going to use it as a retro video editing platform (and you thought you were krazy!)
It has got the bong , there go the fans
Hahahhhhh
Bottom Right Cap is blowing
Very entertaining! Maybe it's just he camera, but at the 22:00 min mark, on the bottom right-hand corner, that cap looks to be a budging a little bit.
I had a white plastic MacBook that I had to repair. It had a disc stuck in it, I fixed it by unplugging and replugging power. Then I put a ruler in the drive and it spat it out.
WOW.
Honeycat - Exodus Honey is the best song ever. For those who don't know, that's the name of the intro music in the Leopard / Snow Leopard video.
Honeycut*
I believe I may still have the airport card from when I tore down my PowerMac G5. Hopefully, I can find it and share a part number or anything else if you need.
I hold command+E when booting a G5 Mac to get the optical drive to eject at boot. Also, I believe you could use a USB optical drive in place of the built-in one. Pretty sure I made that work once.
You didn’t watch the whole video, did you?
That back plate is basically a preview of the iMac Air.
"got the bong"
Hey smokers, krazy ken here.
Druaga1 is weed for the soul
Weed box
I just noticed that I need a PowerBook G4. Dam that thing is beautiful.
Great video. Ended watching it all, even if it would not help me with my current problem. I was given one G5 equal to this one with a problem (or several?). The screen is freaking blackish, almost can't see the letters in it. Also, it doesnt boot. It shows the Apple, and then an error box shows telling me to restart. Any ideias?
I don't have OS disks (nor I know where to download one). I've thought it could be nice to have a linux running in it but it can't boot from the pen drive no matter what I try. -.-
Dang. Everything is crazy not gonna lie.
That fan wow
My dudes so fancy, he uses another mac as a flash drive
hitting a *mac startup*
You have a good singing voice!
Love this video! My iMac G5 throws a drive error. How do I replace that?