Apple versus the analog monster
Here, Ars Technica answers an old-new qustion:FatBits: John Siracusa’s chirping-G5-of-Doom
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Anyway, that’s all in the past. In my original lament about the chirping, I expressed my hope that the “revision 2” Power Mac G5 would come with a silent power supply. Since then, Apple has released three more revisions of the Power Mac G5. Although the enclosure is externally the same as it was in revision 1, the CPUs have changed at least twice, the internal details of the case have been tweaked several times, and the motherboard even went through a few different designs.
Yet through all of this, one thing has remained unchanged. The stupendously sucktacular Chirping Power Supply of Doomâ„¢ is still a fixture of the Power Macintosh product line to this day! There’s a seemingly eternal supply of interminable threads on this topic in the Apple support forums, with smaller flare-ups elsewhere on the net.
Everyone goes through the same dance in these 2006 threads as we rev-1 G5 owners did back in 2003. “What’s making the noise?” (The power supply.) “What can we do to fix it?” (Try to minimize power fluctuations by disabling CPU nap.) “Will Apple replace my power supply under warranty?” (Probably.) “Will that totally silence the chirping?” (Probably not.)
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