My G5 died recently so I'm selling the RAM from it. I have Five - 256MB PC3200 RAM chips. I'm asking $10 each or $50 for all 5 chips. I think it's a fair price (see otherworldcomputing.com they're asking $13.95 each plus shipping) and I need the money to pay off my new Mac, so help a brotha out.

Just curious - What would cause a G5 to "die?" I understand that a hard disk might go, but do the other components quit?

I'm still happily on a year 2000 Powerbook (upgraded to G4) and year 2002 G4 desktop with nary a problem (except obvious performance issues such as current speed levels, etc.). Seems like a G5 should still be going. ???

Some suffered coolant leaks, some the power supplies went, some the logic boards failed.

Some are covered under a "Power Mac G5 Repair Extension Program for Power Supply Issues"

http://www.apple.com/support/powermac/powersupply/repairextension/

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Originally posted by Mary Jo Disler:
Just curious - What would cause a G5 to "die?" I understand that a hard disk might go, but do the other components quit?

I'm still happily on a year 2000 Powerbook (upgraded to G4) and year 2002 G4 desktop with nary a problem (except obvious performance issues such as current speed levels, etc.). Seems like a G5 should still be going. ???

I have no idea what caused it. The Apple store told me it had a bad mother board and one bad processor. It was freezing up and having kernel panics sporadically before it finally stopped starting up at all. The Hard Drive is fine (which I'm using right now), the RAM is fine. It would make a nice planter box perhaps... Actually I'm sending it to Apple to be recycled when my new machine arrives unless someone would want it. It would cost something like $1200 to fix.

Scott,

I would be happy to recycle the computer for you. Bring it to the next meeting!