Hi,Neal! No it wasn't a coolant leak and it wasn't in the group
of G5 that was included in the recall.

However, occasionally the G5 would make a noise like it was
spinning a drive and the fans would kick in like crazy. It only
happened once in a while but it did that from the very beginning.
My hard drive failed within the first year of use and had to be
replaced.

Apparently it's only a safety issue if many of the G5s of that
generation and production lot have the same thing occur. I haven't
seen any others post anything on the net similar to mine, but I am
going to keep an eye out. It could be a fluke or it could be that
mine is just the first to do it. Luckily I was using it at the
time and knew what to do. I shudder to think what would have
happened if the computer had been left on with no one to watch it.

On 7/24/09, Neal wrote:
> Had it been "acting strange" long before the fire e.g. fan
> noise or suddenly stopping, starting, problems booting or
> freezing?
>
> Just wondering.
>
> N
>
> On 7/23/09, Jean Bullock wrote:
>> Wow, that was exciting. I was sitting at my computer and I
>> heard a crackling noise. It sounded like a piece of
>> cellophane had gotten stuck on a fan. I looked at the fan
>> and nothing was there. Then I realized it was coming from my
>> G5. I stood up and looked over my monitor, and saw flames at
>> the bottom of my G5 where the power supply unit is. They
>> were contained within the housing but I could see it through
>> the little holes. I blew out the flames and unplugged
>> everything from the unit.
>>
>> It was 5 months out of the Applecare warranty. So I had to
>> pony up $300 to get it repaired, since there is no other
>> known issue. It's a good thing I was working on it at the
>> time. Imagine if it had been left on while everyone was
>> sleeping. The Apple repairman said it's working fine now
>> but of course they won't let me have the defective part
>> back. I told them since I paid for it out of my own pocket,
>> then I should get it back but the fine print in the repair
>> contract says the part has to go back to Apple for "analysis."

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