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The PowerMac G5 is a desktop computer first produced in 2003 by the Apple Corporation. This guide will review the repair process of an Apple PowerMac G5 model number A1047 EMC 2061 from 2004. It was discontinued in 2006 as part of the Intel switch first to developers then consumers.

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Powermac G5 wont boot.

Powermac G5 , 2.3 DP not starting anymore. Power button

LED blinking and something ticking pretty loud inside .

Any ideas?

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And Yellow LED behind of ram is on

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looks like no power, all fans not working

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How many broken Macs do you have? I've counted three so far.

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total six, mayer

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Browsing in the internet i found this

http://appleinsider.com/articles/06/11/0...

and my serial # under this cover

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Some hard drives tick when failing. Depending upon which which diagnostic LED is blinking it could be that you don't have the air deflector shield in the proper place.

Try booting from your diagnostic/install CD/DVD and run AHT (apple hardware test).

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Hi Vitali! Led blinking, loud ticking, no fans moving=power supply died! Sorry to say so.

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