It did not look like a trivial undertaking and I did not have the time just then to do anything more complex.
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I downloaded the G5 Quad service manual from the web and reviewed what needed to be done. The machine wasn’t dead anymore, but it was far from healthy.
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This was both too hot and too noisy to allow me to return the G5 to full service.Ĭlearly I needed to get into the CPU area and get at a presumed accumulation of dust there before I could restore fully normal operation. It improved, but the CPU temperature stabilized in the low 60’s C region, and the fan rotations at their full value of 3600 RPM. This aligned perfectly with the blistering CPU temperatures and the full speed fan rotations and so I carefully cleared all the dust out and closed the machine back up, confident that it would now be back in the land of the living. Instead, what I found was dust, and lots of it, obstructing free airflow into the CPU area of the machine. In The Reports of My Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated, urged on by reader Ty (author of the now defunct Resto-Bytes blog) to not give up without a fight, I made an initial effort to find and repair the cause of the problem, which at the time I assumed to be a failure of the G5 Quad’s infamous Liquid Cooling System (LCS). I shut it down immediately, assumed rather too quickly that it was done for and deduced that there was no course left but to harvest all the valuable parts I could from it and put the carcass out to pasture.
In A Casualty on the Front Lines I described discovering the machine one day with its fans running at full blast, and the CPU temperature meter hovering in the 80’s C. You will need to know your ip address of your machine to determine what your network segment is.Some time back, I did two posts on the apparent death, and then partial recovery, of my much loved Power Mac G5 Quad. In this example, I exported my user directory. This requires administrative privileges to create this file.Ĭreate an entry for the directory you want to export. You will need to create the file /etc/exports.
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So how is it one goes about firing up an NFS server running under Mac OS X 10.5.8? Well, I am so glad you asked. Did a little Google-ing and in an 1/2 hour I had my sons Windows 7 gaming PC mounting a volume off my PowerMac G5 server. I was surprised at how easy it was to setup NFS on the PowerMac G5. NFS is an acronym for Network File Server. And 'this ol'Mac' running her UNIX operating system (well Mac OS X 10.5.8) had the answer.
Since I work and save on a centralized server, my PowerMac G5, and I like consolidating libraries, my home needed a means to centralize access across different operating systems.
Sorry, you'll have to pry the UNIX from my cold dead hands! But my sons are tech geeks too and they venture out more and have their Windows 7 gaming systems. All my project documents sit on this server as well as my home intranet video streaming library. My PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3 Ghz is still in active service. But that project is on hiatus due to limited time and fundings.
As I write this article I am still working on resurrecting my PowerMac G5 Quad.
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