Mac Pro Early 2008 - Black Screen problem

Set-up
Mac Pro 3,1 (Early 2008)
Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory  32 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics  ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
Storage 2 TB SATA Disk , 2 x 500GB SATA Disk , 128GB Solid State SATA Disk
Display LG 19LS4D-ZB
Operating System Mavericks (10.9.4)
Hi,
I received this mac yesterday from an eBay seller. Everything once booted is running well, I spent most of the day yesterday installing various softwares such as the Adobe Creative Suite (CS6). Then all of a sudden, after around 8 hours of using the machine and editing some video content on Premiere Pro, I get this black screen (with absolutely no warning). The computer didn't change tone or anything with the way it was running, it sounded the exact same as it was. It wasn't like there was no signal coming from the graphics card, there was a signal, it was just a black screen (no cursor or anything). Eventually, I had to turn off the computer using the button on the front.
I have messaged the person who sold me the computer about this, and he has said "The problem is very simple: VGA card goes to sleep. You can change the 'go to sleep time' as Windows system, but don't know where this is with a mac". I've googled to the end of the earth but can't seem to find anything on it!
I've attached these screen shots too just in case...
Any help would be greatly appreciated or happy to answer any questions,
Thanks,
Sam

Try booting to Recovery and repairing the the startup disk via Disk Utility.
OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
Next try resinstalling the OS
OS X Mavericks: Reinstall OS X

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    /Library/LaunchAgents:
    total 64K
    -rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 612 May 15 10:11 com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 456 May 15 07:08 com.bjango.istatlocal.plist*
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 574 May 24 22:05 com.blackmagic-design.DesktopVideoFirmwareUpdater.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 576 Oct 27  2011 com.delicioussafari.DeliciousSafariAgent.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 721 Apr  5 10:21 com.parallels.DesktopControlAgent.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 565 Apr  5 10:21 com.parallels.desktop.launch.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 797 Apr  5 10:20 com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 508 May 17 21:18 net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist
    /Library/LaunchDaemons:
    total 104K
    -rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel  634 May 15 10:15 com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel  421 Jun  4 14:44 com.apple.remotepairtool.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1.1K May 15 08:53 com.attotech.iscsid.plist
    -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel  597 May 15 07:08 com.bjango.istatlocaldaemon.plist*
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel  471 May 24 22:05 com.blackmagic-design.streaming.BMDStreamingServer.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin  488 Jan 18 22:50 com.datarobotics.ddservice64d.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin  484 Jan 18 22:50 com.datarobotics.ddserviced.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin  510 May 23  2011 com.econtechnologies.ChronoAgentRemote.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel  568 Aug 25  2010 com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel  567 Apr  5 10:21 com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel  675 May 17 21:43 com.squirrels.kextinstaller.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel  517 May 15 09:45 de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher-20compatibility.plist
    lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin   74 Apr  4 17:45 org.macports.rsyncd.plist -> /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.rsyncd/org.macports.rsyncd.plist
    lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin   72 Apr  4 23:19 org.macports.slapd.plist -> /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.slapd/org.macports.slapd.plist
    /Library/Mail/Bundles:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 May 17 16:43 GPGMail.mailbundle/
    drwxrwxr-x 4 root admin 136 Jan 11 12:54 OMiC.mailbundle/
    /Library/PreferencePanes:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Feb  6 15:03 Air Display Preferences.prefPane/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Jun 27  2010 Choosy.prefPane/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Feb  3 11:21 ChronoAgent.prefPane/
    drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 May 15 09:13 Cursorcerer.prefPane/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 May 24 22:05 DesktopVideoPrefsPanel.prefPane/
    drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel 102 Apr 27 12:14 Flash Player.prefPane/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 May 20 12:13 Hazel.prefPane/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Jul 23  2011 Perian.prefPane/
    drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Jul 18  2011 TrackballWorks.prefPane/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Aug 30  2011 Tuxera NTFS.prefPane/
    /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:
    total 168K
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 102K Aug 25  2010 com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper*
    -r-xr--r-- 1 root wheel  59K May 17 21:43 com.squirrels.kextinstaller*
    /Library/QuickLook:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 3 dburr staff 102 Feb 12 12:36 QLMarkdown.qlgenerator/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root  wheel 102 Jun 16  2011 iWork.qlgenerator/
    /Library/QuickTime:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root  admin 102 Jul 23  2011 AC3MovieImport.component/
    drwxrwxr-x 3 root  admin 102 Sep 12  2011 AppleAVCIntraCodec.component/
    drwxrwxr-x 3 root  admin 102 Sep 12  2011 AppleHDVCodec.component/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root  wheel 102 Jun 13  2011 AppleIntermediateCodec.component/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root  wheel 102 Jun 13  2011 AppleMPEG2Codec.component/
    drwxrwxr-x 3 root  admin 102 Sep 12  2011 AppleProResCodec.component/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root  admin 102 May 24 22:05 Blackmagic Codec.component/
    drwxrwxr-x 3 root  admin 102 Sep 12  2011 DVCPROHDCodec.component/
    drwxrwxr-x 3 dburr admin 102 Aug  9  2011 Elgato Turbo.component/
    drwxrwxr-x 3 root  admin 102 Sep 12  2011 FCP Uncompressed 422.component/
    drwxrwxr-x 3 root  admin 102 Sep 12  2011 IMXCodec.component/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root  admin 102 Jul 23  2011 Perian.component/
    /Library/ScriptingAdditions:
    total 0
    drwxrwxr-x 3 root  admin    102 May 15 10:54 Adobe Unit Types.osax/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root  wheel    102 Oct 27  2011 DeliciousSafari Addition.osax/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 dburr macports 102 Jan  5 06:45 SIMBL.osax/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root  admin    102 Apr 26 00:00 TotalFinder.osax/
    /Library/Spotlight:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 21  2009 Microsoft Office.mdimporter/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jun 16  2011 iWork.mdimporter/
    /Library/StartupItems:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Apr 27 13:39 tap/
    drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Sep  1  2009 tun/
    /etc/mach_init.d:
    total 0
    /etc/mach_init_per_login_session.d:
    total 0
    /etc/mach_init_per_user.d:
    total 0
    Library/Address Book Plug-Ins:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 3 dburr admin 102 Mar  5 02:01 SkypeABDialer.bundle/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 dburr admin 102 Mar  5 02:01 SkypeABSMS.bundle/
    Library/Fonts:
    total 0
    Library/Frameworks:
    total 0
    drwxrwxrwx 5 dburr staff 170 Aug 24  2010 EWSMac-GC.framework/
    drwxrwxrwx 5 dburr staff 170 May 17 22:42 EWSMac.framework/
    Library/Input Methods:
    total 0
    -rw------- 1 dburr staff 0 May 14 15:18 .localized
    Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 5 dburr staff 170 Feb  4 04:26 Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin/
    Library/Keyboard Layouts:
    total 0
    Library/LaunchAgents:
    total 32K
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dburr staff 697 May 15 11:01 com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dburr staff 618 May 15 08:13 com.apple.AddressBook.ScheduledSync.PHXCardDAVSource.AA278322-D5AB-4321-B4ED-D9 0478690405.plist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dburr staff 886 May 14 15:18 [email protected]ist
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dburr staff 802 May 14 18:47 com.google.keystone.agent.plist
    Library/Mail/Bundles:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 4 dburr staff 136 Jan 23 09:53 MailActOn.mailbundle/
    drwxr-xr-x 4 dburr staff 136 May 11 10:08 MailTags.mailbundle/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 dburr staff 102 Apr 26 08:28 SpamSieve.mailbundle/
    Library/PreferencePanes:
    total 0
    Library/Services:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 3 dburr staff 102 May 15 10:04 ToastIt.service/
    Library/Spotlight:
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 3 dburr staff 102 May 11 10:08 MailTags.mdimporter/
    Results from Step 5:
    Cobook, ScreenSharingMenulet, PhotoSync, Growl, PinPoint, EvernoteHelper, Caffeine, TrackballWorksHelper, Alfred, DropCopy Pro, Fantastical, Moom, TextExpander, ChronoSyncBackgrounder, TotalFinder, Yoink, AirDisplayStatusItem, Choosy, AirParrot, Melo, Synergy, Cursorcerer, ScreenCapture, HazelHelper, PleaseSleep, SMARTReporter, iTunesHelper, DDAssist, Dropbox

  • Mac Pro Early 2008 - random reboots!

    Hello!
    I have a problem with my Mac Pro Early 2008...
    Processor  2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
    Memory  10 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
    Graphics  NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
    Software  OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
    ...ther screen will break up into random blocky pattern (like the video card freezes) and the Mac will reboot, kernel panic basically...
    ...3 months ago i updated the RAM from 6gb to 10gb, but haven't done anything else to the **** thing.
    ...it's done it five times in the last two days now.
    ...here is my lates panic report...this happened 10 minutes ago.
    ...does this report make sense to anyone?
    ===================================
    Interval Since Last Panic Report:  1997046 sec
    Panics Since Last Report:          3
    Anonymous UUID:                    E39A1BFB-D1E1-D614-7991-B49386694DC1
    Wed Jul 24 16:56:33 2013
    panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff801669e53b): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0x4, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.24.15/osfmk/x86_64/pmap.c:2337
    Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
    0xffffff813feeb960 : 0xffffff801661d626
    0xffffff813feeb9d0 : 0xffffff801669e53b
    0xffffff813feeba50 : 0xffffff80166a3a3a
    0xffffff813feebae0 : 0xffffff80166a53a6
    0xffffff813feebb00 : 0xffffff8016664406
    0xffffff813feebbf0 : 0xffffff801666706c
    0xffffff813feebce0 : 0xffffff801666b0e0
    0xffffff813feebd10 : 0xffffff8016665bdf
    0xffffff813feebd40 : 0xffffff8016717554
    0xffffff813feebd70 : 0xffffff80167197c3
    0xffffff813feebdc0 : 0xffffff801691184f
    0xffffff813feebdf0 : 0xffffff80169062e6
    0xffffff813feebea0 : 0xffffff80166fa0af
    0xffffff813feebed0 : 0xffffff80166f37a7
    0xffffff813feebf30 : 0xffffff80166fa029
    0xffffff813feebf50 : 0xffffff80169e16aa
    0xffffff813feebfb0 : 0xffffff80166ce9c3
    BSD process name corresponding to current thread: launchd
    Mac OS version:
    12E55
    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May  1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64
    Kernel UUID: 896CB1E3-AB79-3DF1-B595-549DFFDF3D36
    Kernel slide:     0x0000000016400000
    Kernel text base: 0xffffff8016600000
    System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)
    System uptime in nanoseconds: 14846309182590
    last loaded kext at 3120916610267: com.apple.filesystems.smbfs    1.8.4 (addr 0xffffff7f98562000, size 229376)
    last unloaded kext at 410364773343: com.apple.driver.StorageLynx    3.1.7 (addr 0xffffff7f9853e000, size 8192)
    loaded kexts:
    com.Logitech.Control Center.HID Driver    3.6.0
    com.metakine.handsoff.driver    2.0.8
    com.apple.filesystems.smbfs    1.8.4
    com.apple.driver.Oxford_Semi    3.1.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor    1.9.5d0
    com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC    1.60
    com.apple.filesystems.autofs    3.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient    3.5.10
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDA    2.3.7fc4
    com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl    1.1.11
    com.apple.iokit.CSRBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport    4.1.4f2
    com.apple.GeForce    8.1.2
    com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet    1.0.0d1
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager    4.1.4f2
    com.apple.driver.AppleLPC    1.6.0
    com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X    7.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleMCEDriver    1.1.9
    com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl    3.4.5
    com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin    1.0.0
    com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient    3.5.5
    com.apple.driver.XsanFilter    404
    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage    2.3.1
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet    3.1.1b1
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub    5.5.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI    4.9.6
    com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless    1.0.0d1
    com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib    1.0.0d1
    com.apple.BootCache    34
    com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort    2.5.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA    2.5.1
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI    5.5.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI    5.2.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM    1.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons    1.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleRTC    1.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleHPET    1.8
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS    1.9
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC    1.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC    1.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient    196.0.0
    com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall    4.0.39
    com.apple.security.quarantine    2.1
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement    196.0.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice    3.5.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport    2.1.1
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSBP2    4.2.2
    com.apple.kext.triggers    1.0
    com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib    2.3.7fc4
    com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily    1.8.9fc11
    com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib    1.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController    1.0.11d0
    com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal    8.1.2
    com.apple.NVDAResman    8.1.2
    com.apple.iokit.IOSurface    86.0.4
    com.apple.iokit.AppleBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport    4.1.4f2
    com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily    10.0.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController    2.3.7fc4
    com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily    2.3.7fc4
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP    2.2.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl    3.4.5
    com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport    2.3.7
    com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily    2.3.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMC    3.1.4d2
    com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy    1.0.0
    com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily    5.3.0d51
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDKeyboard    170.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard    170.2
    com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver    4.1.4f2
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily    4.1.4f2
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver    5.2.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub    5.5.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite    5.2.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice    3.5.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily    1.7
    com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily    1.7.1
    com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily    1.7.1
    com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport    3.5.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily    3.5.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient    5.5.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily    4.5.5
    com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily    3.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily    2.3.1
    com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily    2.5.1
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily    5.6.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily    1.8.1
    com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime    1.7
    com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily    1.1
    com.apple.security.sandbox    220.3
    com.apple.kext.AppleMatch    1.0.0d1
    com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet    7
    com.apple.driver.DiskImages    345
    com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily    1.8
    com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore    28.21
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform    1.7
    com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily    2.7.3
    com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily    1.4
    com.apple.kec.corecrypto    1.0
    System Profile:
    Model: MacPro3,1, BootROM MP31.006C.B05, 8 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 10 GB, SMC 1.25f4
    Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, PCIe, 512 MB
    Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x0D9B, 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
    Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x0D9B, 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
    Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x802C, 0x3138484632353637324A4438304545314434
    Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x802C, 0x3138484632353637324A4438304545314434
    Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
    Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
    Bluetooth: Version 4.1.4f2 12041, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
    Network Service: Ethernet 1, Ethernet, en0
    PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-1
    Serial ATA Device: ST3500630AS P, 500.11 GB
    Parallel ATA Device: PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-112D
    USB Device: hub_device, 0x0409  (NEC Corporation), 0x005a, 0xfd400000 / 2
    USB Device: Keyboard Hub, apple_vendor_id, 0x1006, 0xfd410000 / 4
    USB Device: USB Laser Mouse, 0x046d  (Logitech Inc.), 0xc069, 0xfd413000 / 6
    USB Device: Apple Keyboard, apple_vendor_id, 0x0221, 0xfd412000 / 5
    USB Device: EIZO USB HID Monitor, 0x056d  (Eizo), 0x0002, 0xfd430000 / 3
    USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8206, 0x5d200000 / 2
    FireWire Device: built-in_hub, 800mbit_speed
    FireWire Device: OEM ATA Device 00, G-TECH, 800mbit_speed
    ==============================

    ...and this is my report from yesterday when it last happened to me...
    ==============================
    Tue Jul 23 22:05:20 2013
    panic(cpu 5 caller 0xffffff80156b8655): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f96aed154, type 14=page fault, registers:
    CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000000010, CR3: 0x00000000238e8000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
    RAX: 0x0000000000000001, RBX: 0xffffff811be18000, RCX: 0xffffff802e224e98, RDX: 0xffffff813df6ba38
    RSP: 0xffffff813df6bb60, RBP: 0xffffff813df6bb60, RSI: 0x0000000000000000, RDI: 0x0000000000000000
    R8:  0x0000000000000000, R9:  0x00000000000003ff, R10: 0xffffffffffffffff, R11: 0x00000000ffffffff
    R12: 0xffffff811be18000, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0x0000000000000002, R15: 0x0000000000000000
    RFL: 0x0000000000010246, RIP: 0xffffff7f96aed154, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000010
    Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000010, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x5
    Backtrace (CPU 5), Frame : Return Address
    0xffffff813df6b800 : 0xffffff801561d626
    0xffffff813df6b870 : 0xffffff80156b8655
    0xffffff813df6ba40 : 0xffffff80156ce17d
    0xffffff813df6ba60 : 0xffffff7f96aed154
    0xffffff813df6bb60 : 0xffffff7f96ad6844
    0xffffff813df6bbb0 : 0xffffff7f96ad679a
    0xffffff813df6bbd0 : 0xffffff7f96ab228e
    0xffffff813df6bc00 : 0xffffff7f95c913a0
    0xffffff813df6bc40 : 0xffffff7f95c9130f
    0xffffff813df6bc60 : 0xffffff7f95c9675c
    0xffffff813df6bcf0 : 0xffffff7f95c8ee50
    0xffffff813df6bd20 : 0xffffff7f95ce01cf
    0xffffff813df6bd70 : 0xffffff8015a33efb
    0xffffff813df6bdc0 : 0xffffff8015a65297
    0xffffff813df6be30 : 0xffffff801569874f
    0xffffff813df6be80 : 0xffffff8015620b3d
    0xffffff813df6beb0 : 0xffffff8015610448
    0xffffff813df6bf00 : 0xffffff801561961b
    0xffffff813df6bf70 : 0xffffff80156a6536
    0xffffff813df6bfb0 : 0xffffff80156ce9e3
          Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
             com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[990D1A42-DF16-3AB9-ABC1-6A88AC142244]@0 xffffff7f95c85000->0xffffff7f95cbcfff
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7f95c46000
             com.apple.NVDAResman(8.1.2)[96AE69DE-8A37-39D0-B2D3-D8446A6AA670]@0xffffff7f95c dc000->0xffffff7f95f81fff
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7f95c46000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[6C8CFC18-75F0-3DEF-86C7-CEB2C1FD6BB1]@0xff ffff7f95cc8000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[990D1A42-DF16-3AB9-ABC1-6A88AC142244]@0 xffffff7f95c85000
             com.apple.GeForce(8.1.2)[7EC545A4-4B57-32F1-8DC3-C31023AFBDCB]@0xffffff7f96aae0 00->0xffffff7f96b7bfff
                dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.1.2)[96AE69DE-8A37-39D0-B2D3-D8446A6AA670]@0xffffff7f95c dc000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[6C8CFC18-75F0-3DEF-86C7-CEB2C1FD6BB1]@0xff ffff7f95cc8000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7f95c46000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[990D1A42-DF16-3AB9-ABC1-6A88AC142244]@0 xffffff7f95c85000
    BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
    Mac OS version:
    12E55
    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May  1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64
    Kernel UUID: 896CB1E3-AB79-3DF1-B595-549DFFDF3D36
    Kernel slide:     0x0000000015400000
    Kernel text base: 0xffffff8015600000
    System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)
    System uptime in nanoseconds: 43990035275
    last loaded kext at 33162859687: com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC    1.60 (addr 0xffffff7f96d60000, size 32768)
    loaded kexts:
    com.Logitech.Control Center.HID Driver    3.6.0
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  • MAC PRO (Early 2008) RAID CARD ISSUE - SYSTEM FREEZEHello (hopefully someone can shed some light on my issue)  I own as above a MAC PRO (Early 2008) this has a RAID card installed along with two 15k.7 cheetah hdd (320gb) and a spare drive, (which i m

    Hello (hopefully someone can shed some light on my issue)
    I own as above a MAC PRO (Early 2008) this has a RAID card installed along with two 15k.7 cheetah hdd (320gb) and a spare drive, (which i made a regular drive)
    a while ago i had to replace the RAID card battery, so i did this, over a year later the same thing happened again, but as previous just left it and the system seemed fine for ages, until last night i was working in PHOTOSHOP and everything just froze and the screen kind of appeared GREEN, could not do a single thing. So restarted the mac, this time grey screen for ages and a message appeared, (macs version of blue screen) (see attached).
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    so i found my copy of snow leopard and got the computer to run this and at least launch the DISK UTILITY and (Interestingly in the drop down menu RAID UTILITY was also in the menu) but it did not matter which utility i used the (RAID or DISK) neither could see any of drives, just the dvd drive.
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    After performing this HARDWARE task and inserting all three HDD, and running the DISK utility from the drop down menu via the SNOW LEOPARD disc.
    (interestingly since the RAID card had been removed the RAID UTILITY  from the drop down menu no longer appeared). running disk utility I can now only see the regular (spare) hdd and DVD Drive, but the two RAID HDD , again, still do not show up DISK UTILITY?
    O.K. so i could chuck out the RAID card (AND RAID HDD) and just go with a regular set-up, and run a back restore from Time Machine on a NEW hdd purchased.
    but what is wrong with the RAID, is the card at fault or are both HDD used for the RAID knackered? can i perform any tests, to see whats what?
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    working in photoshop and then everything stopped working and the lot froze! only option was to force shutdown (via button).
    and try to restart, hoping all was fine, this was not the case :-(
    I had the added issue of the RAID card system, that i have, this was confused to say the lease and would not behave or work, causing the start up to hang.
    so i thought the HDD must be bust and the root cause. ( but soon learnt it was not the cause )
    ...bought a new HDD removed the RAID card and replugged the cable from RAID card into LOGIC board, ( making the computer act like any normal non-RAID system). I managed to install the OSX, using the snow leopard disk way. once the mac was running, i started to notice the screen would flicker and started to see 'artefacts'. so i started to reveal my symptoms to the web and forums and soon discovered that my graphics card could be the issue all along?.
    (nvidia geforce 8800gt 2x dvi).
    I read up on that a fix, could be either A. reply the thermal paste, as the card could be over heating or B. stick the card in the oven trick.
    Tried option A. first and nothing still issues, so last night took the plunge carried out option B. and ta da it worked! i even managed to run
    from my new HDD my lasted install OS X, absolutely fine. I then thought, maybe i could repair my RAID so replugged all the HARDWARD back in and
    carried out a disk repair and disk permissions on drives( took a small amount of time), via the SNOW LEOPARD disc - (Disk utilities) and this worked and now have my system working as it was just over 6 days ago.
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    and renew thermal paste, approx 15.00gbp, technically i don't need the new HDD, but it was all part of the trial and error way i went. ( i do have extra storage as a result!)"

  • Mac Pro Early 2008 crash after gear on boot

    Hi. I have a Mac Pro (Early 2008), with Mavericks installed. A couple of days ago, it crashed hard (in Portal, as it happens) and then wouldn't boot. When it was crashing it showed full green in various (dark? or random?) areas of the screen, and then random vertical lines of coloured noise. The cursor went jerky, and then stopped moving at all. Having decided this was a more serious problem than a simple steam error, I forced the machine to shut down with the case button, and then turned it back on again, but it wouldn't come up, and hasn't (with exceptions, see below) since.
    The behaviour is:
    Boot chime, Apple, Apple-with-spinning-gear, a sensible (it seems) amount of spinning gear, then the gear stops and I get some flashing on my screen (like, a complete red screen, or orange screen – colours vary – displayed for less than one refresh, so I see a brief flash of colour with tearing). Occasionally instead of flashing I get an unexpected reboot: once when this happened I also got the kernel's (multiple language) "Your computer restarted because of a problem" screen.
    Safe Mode has the same problem (I get a progress bar, when the progress bar completes everything stops and "screen flashing" happens).
    EFI boot volume selector works fine, but when I continue to boot, either from my main partition or the Recovery partition, I get the same problem.
    Verbose mode works until the point where the graphical user interface should come back, which gives me a white screen and nothing (except screen flashing). I do get a certain amount of "kSMCBadArgumentError" before that point, but see below.
    Single User Mode works as it should, fsck finds no errors, all my data appears to be on my hard drive as expected, but on typing "exit" to continue boot I end up in the same position as Verbose Mode. Trying kextload to load all my extensions gives the kSMCBadArgumentError lines, but no other problems (until I try to boot). I have already tried using SUM to remove all the launch agents/daemons/extensions from /Library/ (leaving only the ones in /System/Library/). This worked (I modified the disk as I intended) but didn't help me boot.
    I did get the recovery partition to boot once (seemingly randomly), Disk Utility found no errors. The full Apple Hardware Test doesn't seem to be an option from the recovery partition? (I've moved house a few times in the last 6 years, and I don't know where my physical AHT disk is any more. I do have a friend who would probably be able to burn one if Apple provides the disk image as a download.) I have had a full successful boot once too (maybe on the restart after using the recovery partition?) which let me use my administrator user perfectly (I used it for about 5 minutes?), but then after logging out and while trying to log in as my "standard" user I got full green noise as before, and the machine locked up again.
    I've rotated my RAM (I have 2x1GB sticks and 2x2GB, as well as my usual 6GB config I've tried each of the pairs in "two-stick" configuration). No difference, except on one boot I got error lights (full on) on one riser, I assume that was because I hadn't seated it properly during rotation, because I took it out and put it back in again and I've not had the lights before or since.
    I've also tried swapping in an older system drive, but that made no difference. (The old drive may have been a little flaky itself, but single-user mode booting reliably suggests, at least to me, that my normal drives aren't the problem?)
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    Edited to correct OS field, which didn't work. I really do mean Mavericks.

    RE: Mac Pro Replacement Graphics cards
    1) Apple brand cards,
    2) "sold in the Apple store" cards, and
    3) "Mac Edition" cards ...
    ... show all the screens, including Boot up screens, Safe Mode, Installer, Recovery, debug screens, and Alt/Option boot screens. At this writing, these choices include:
    1) Apple brand cards:
    • Apple-firmware 5770, about US$250** works near full speed in every model Mac Pro, Drivers in 10.6.5
    • Apple-firmware 5870, about US$450
    2) "sold in the Apple store" cards
    • NVIDIA Quadro 4000, about US$1200
    • NVIDIA Quadro 5000, about US$2500
    3) "Mac Edition" cards -- REQUIRE 10.8.3 or later:
    • SAPPHIRE HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 MAC Edition, about US$480** Vendor recommends Mac Pro 4,1
    • EVGA GTX 680 Mac Edition, about US$600
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    If you are Meet ALL of these:
    • running 10.8.3 or later AND
    • don't care about "no boot screens" etc AND
    • can re-wire or otherwise "work out" the power cabling, THEN:
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  • Mac Pro Early 2008 will not boot off Win7 Install DVD

    Hello,
    I am hoping someone out there will have encountered something similar and have some suggestions or ideas, because at this point I can't think of anything else to try.
    I have a 2.8 Ghz 8-core Mac Pro (Early 2008) with an Nvidia 8800GT Graphics card. I am running OS 10.6.2, fully patched and updated.
    I am attempting to install Windows 7 Ultimate via Boot Camp, and am encountering a rather odd problem.
    Once I have launched Boot Camp Assistant it allows me to partition the drive and does so correctly, but when it attempts to reboot off the Windows 7 installation DVD, I encounter a blank grey-white screen similar to that which you normally get on startup but without the Apple logo. This continues for some time (it seems to vary), and then the screen goes dark and the monitor says it is receiving no signal. The fans on the Mac Pro go for a while, then it goes to sleep. I've tried leaving it for a couple hours, no dice.
    I've tried both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows install disks. I had the release candidate for Windows 7 installed previously, and it worked perfectly. I have since tried that same install DVD that I used to install the release candidate, and it encounters the exact same issue. Booting up off the Snow Leopard Install DVD works fine.
    I tried doing a clean install of Snow Leopard on a spare drive, booting off that, and then starting from square 1 using Boot Camp Assistant to re-partition that same drive. Same problem. No matter what I do or try, my Mac Pro does not want to boot off this install disc. I have yet to try the disc in another machine to see if it works there, and I will as soon as I can, but the fact that the RC disc worked a few months back and now will not seems to rule out the boot discs as defective. I've also tried both my internal optical drives with no change, and no other discs have any issues.
    I've already spent an hour and a half talking to Apple Technical Support, and they seemed stumped, so I'm hoping someone will have a notion. If not, I understand and appreciate you taking the time to read this- I have no idea at this point, and I'm generally a pretty knowledgeable user.
    - Andrew

    Thank you for your reply,
    Pull all the drives you have other than the one that you will install Windows 7 to.
    I think I will try this next.
    Don't put Windows 7 on the same drive as OS X, give it its own.
    That was initially what I started out doing.
    And you don't even need Boot Camp Assistant.
    True, but it's what Apple suggests using.
    Might also want to try moving the monitor cable to the other card port.
    Hmm, I think I'll try that.
    Any other PCI cards or devices attached or installed should also be questioned or disconnected.
    I've disconnected everything I could.
    Always a good idea to start fresh which I assume you are doing (not trying to upgrade over RC etc).
    Yes, the drive was empty to start with.
    Honestly it seems like the Mac Pro is generally refusing to boot from any Windows disc. Things I've tried since my initial post:
    - Loaded Windows 7 Install disc into my room mate's windows PC... loaded up fine, got to install screen
    - Tried his OEM copy of Windows Vista 32-bit, same issue
    At this point it seems like maybe some kind of firmware issue or some kind or graphics driver issue, but I'm pretty much grasping at straws at this point. It doesn't seem like it's even getting to the point where hard drives or anything matters.
    It does recognize that I have a Windows 7 install disc inserted when I use the boot selector/startup disk chooser.
    Thanks for the ideas, I'll try those out and see if any of them help,
    -Andrew

  • Mac Pro Early 2008 + boot camp!!! pliz help from Pros!

    Hi guys,
    I'm currently using a Mac pro Early 2008 Quad 2.8 with 4 Gb of RAM. I also have 4 HDDs ( 2 of them are 1Tb( Western Digital Black and Green series), 1 is 320Gb-original comes with MP and one 250 Gb Western Digital caviar). All of my HDDs are internal. Recently, my superdrive failed on me. Therefore, i have to replace it using a Samsung OEM DVD optical drive ( TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203D ) which was connected via the extra SATA port on my MP logic board. The optical drive was recognized fine by my MP.
    Recently, as I used to work on both platforms ( Mac and PC) for audio mastering, I've decided to install windows 7 using bootcamp so that I can use Wavelab on my Mac for audio mastering. I had my 250Gbs SATA on HDD bay 4 formatted as a single volume for Bootcamp using Bootcamp Assistant. The process went fine until the system restarts for Windows installation. As I used Bootcamp before, i understood that freaking apple EFI wont read SATA (or external) optical drive to install Windows via Bootcamp, therefore I used RefiT as bootloader ( this method always worked for me before on other macs). I also have windows 7 ultimate ligit DVD. However, I experienced this :
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    - After trying Bootcamp traditional way of installation without success, I install RefiT into my OSX drive ( 320 GBs), have MP restarted twice, then i got Refit boot menu, chose the windows installtion DVD..... now REFIT shows me that having some problem with Legacy boot and can't start the DVD.
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    I'm using Mac OSX 10.6.3. And below is my system profile:
    Model Name: Mac Pro
    Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
    Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
    Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
    Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05
    SMC Version (system): 1.25f4
    Disc Burning:
    TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203D:
    Firmware Revision: SB00
    Interconnect: ATAPI
    Burn Support: Yes (Generic Drive Support)
    Profile Path: None
    Cache: 2048 KB
    Reads DVD: Yes
    CD-Write: -R, -RW
    DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
    Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

    hi all,
    Finally I had my Mac pro Early 2008 Quad installed Windows XP SP3 on 2nd internal HDD.
    Here's the update for anyone that is having the same problem as I had.
    1st : you need to prepare some elements for a smooth installation
    - Winclone for mac osx
    - Windows XP image that was made from Winclone ( I had to download Winclone 1st, then ran to a friend of mine who had Windows already installed on his Mac using bootcamp and made an image of a version of Windows ( XP/vista/7) on his HDD via Winclone. The image will have file extension like this : xxxx.winclone ( xxxx is the name you choose)
    - bootcamp 3.0 drivers for windows, just in case.
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    3rd: open bootcamp Assistant. prepare your drive for a Windows installation then quit it. However, somehow in my Mac Pro, the partition that BCA created wasn't mounted on my Finder, therefore I opened disk Utility and then reformat my BOOTCAMP drive to FAT32 or NTFS ( if you install NTFS-3G, disk utility will allow you).
    4th: Open winclone. Now choose Restore. Then choose your Windows image that you made earlier and choose the Partition that you formatted for Windows and wait. It wont take long for the software to copy the image to your partition.
    5th: now its time to restart your computer. hold down Option key so that you can choose the Windows Partition to boot.
    6th: Windows will boot up and starting to scan for hardware changes again ( as the computer hardware ID and specs changed).
    7th: if needed, use bootcamp 3.0 to install drivers for your Mac in windows.
    8th: register your copy of Windows
    Hope this help.by the way, you also want to force your Mac Pro to recognize all of your SATA HDDs and optical drive by force it to load up drivers in AHCI mode. There are lots of threads over Internet about how to do it. Perhaps InsanelyMac forum ( that's where i find it).
    And finally good luck with guys who are having the same problems like me. It took me 3 weeks to find out how to do it.
    Sorry admin for any violations ( I only want to help people cos I know its hard with guys who dont know ).
    CHEERS!

  • Mac Pro (Early 2008) and HP LP3065 30" display compatibility issue

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    Is there FIX / Workaround to Mac Pro (Early 2008) and HP LP3065 30" display compatibility issue ? ( +w/ ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT display adapter+ ). Its really annoying problem :-/.
    Main problem is when i start my Mac, my 30" HP screen dosen't wake up, it always on suspend mode. Sometimes it wakes up on the 3rd try orso, sometimes it ruins my motivation, ideas and i give up (talk about inspiration killer). If i connect PC Laptop to that screen, sreen wakes up straight away. ATI says display adapters "drivers" are included on the OSX install. Great. Weird thing is i didn't recognize this problem at all 6-8 months ago, so i thought my system is fine. So i can't return my HP screen anymore.
    My choices are to buy another 30" screen or buy different display adapter; there's two choices atm i think;
    *-ATI Radeon HD 3870 512MB PCI-E for Mac Pro (~200€)*
    *-EVGA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 1GB (~500€)* (this one has seperate OSX drivers).
    _Can anyone confirm if those display adapters work with HP 3065 30" screen ?._
    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=687624
    http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9388978
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1794155&tstart=60
    Br,
    Petri

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  • What drive in Mac Pro early 2008 or 2009?

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    There are already three other drives in these machines, some of them are Western Digital drives and they work fine, but they were purchased years ago.
    I returned the drive and purchased a Western Digital Red 1Tb drive in replacement. I chose a Red because I will be setting up a RAID system soon but needed it temporarily as storage in the Mac Pro. It didn't work at all in the Mac Pro Early 2008. At first it seemed to work but at restart, the system said the disk was not formatted, although I had formatted it successfully (but it really took a long time) with Disk Utility.
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    Apparently, I should be able to put a 1Tb disk in these machines, and the SATA 3 drives are supposed to be compatible with the SATA 2 of the Mac Pros. But it doesn't work although we spent hours trying everything and reading everything we could find on the subject.
    My question is: are these drives supposed to work in older Mac Pros from 2008 and 2009?
    If not, what drive should I purchase for these machines? I need a quiet, fast drive.
    Thanks.
    Ellen

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    About using SSD for Photoshop's scratch, I seem to remember reading something saying that it will reduce the drive's life somewhat. I don't know how much or if it matters, or if it's the better choice anyway.
    Actually, the reason we still have these old Mac Pros (two for work, one for the server) is that, every year, we hoped to see some major improvement and put off upgrading because we didn't feel the new ones announced year after year would change our life.
    We've been using Macs for almost 30 years now. The first was a Mac Plus 512k, in January 1985. (My first computer (in 1981) was a ZX81, with 1k of RAM... I did get a 16 k plug in extension though). We usually upgrade when the specs show a speed improvement of at least 4X, or when the architecture changes radically. All this to say we are now waiting to spend all our Christmas money on some shiny new tubular Mac Pros. We will then have to reconsider our whole setup,  and add some external Thunderbolt drives. At that time, I'll be back to discuss the best options. Till then, this will do.
    And the reason we tried a Red was because we thought maybe we could use it later on a dedicated machine used only for music over the network. The drive is used just about continuously all day long. Bad idea obviously.

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