Mac 23 Jul 2004 08:45 pm
Desktop G5 Rebooting
This is driving me nuts. I’ve had this G5 (single cpu, 1.6G) for a few months, and now its started rebooting randomly for no apparent reason. I finally looked in the logs today and found the culprit:
Jul 23 18:56:31 localhost kernel: AppleU3: WARNING: platform-chip-fault expected, but not found Jul 23 18:56:31 localhost kernel: ApplePMU::PMU FORCED SHUTDOWN, CAUSE = -122
Googling “PMU FORCED SHUTDOWN, CAUSE “ gave me some hits, but there were all for powerbooks and ibooks, and the fix was to reset the PMU. Searching further on Apple’s support site yielded no direct hits on how to reset the PMU on the desktop G5, but they did have an entry for the XServe G5. I’m going to have a look around my G5 tonight and see if I can find the PMU reset button. Its seems overly complicated for something like this…