Boot and Reliability Problem

Greetings,
In August 2008 I bought my first Mac and ever since have trouble with it. I already contacted Apple Support, Sonnet Support, Lacie Support, still there is no solution on the table.
I thought, before I have the maschine picked up I give it a shot in these fora.
My configuration:
Mac Pro 3.0Ghz, 16 Gig, 4x 750 Gig HD internal, 3x 1TB external (Time capsule, 2x Lacie quadra), Sonnet E4P.
My main problems:
1. Noise level:
The maschine emits a humming noise, intervalling up and down, probably located where the PSU is installed (decibel meter check). The noise is clearly audble, even over the AHT noise of the fans speeding up. The resonance can be felt if a hand is put on the chassis.
I asked friends with similiar maschines, and none of them reports this extremly annoying hum. I checked the HD sleds, all sits tight.
I assume this is only able to be resolved by sending the maschine to service.
2. Boot and Reliability Problems:
If my Mac is out over night, and on booting it up in the morning, it takes around 6-7 minutes until boot cycle is complete. If I am not mistaken, this should be more in the region of 30 seconds.
Up until recently, after boot OSX did not find a harddrive, but I solved this, the reason was that the useless dealer I bought it from formatted one internal drive as MS-DOS FAT, go figure.
However, I need to run a RAID-0 via OSX, and will exchange the WD Caviar SE for WD 1TB RE3 for that purpose. I am also having trouble with my xternal Lacie Drives on Sonnet E4P, but I send system logs and reports to Sonnet still waiting on their answer.
Would it be correct to assume that less than one minute is a more appropriate boot up time?
Does anyone else around here have this noise problem I described?
Best wishes
OVS

Good evening The Hatter,
yeah, I studied a couple of those threads and tried to apply findings. Tell me, you say you have your MCP on the side, does that not cause problems for the DVD drive and/or other parts. The MCP does not look as if it is designed to lay on it's side.
I tried to de couple the chassis from the floor with heavy carpet underlay, still the same. I am not fuzzy, but this sound is really disturbing in a quiet environment, and I often need it quiet when I work on photographs. I left the case open, I pushed the lever half way up, nothing resolved that.
Allow me to ask you something else, you seem to have a lot of Mac years under your belt, would you think my boot problems can come from a dodgy OSX installation? The dealer I bought it from in August installed everything, but has proven to be rather incompetent and very sloppy. The first few weeks, on 10.54, I had probably 8-10 kernel crashes, which stopped after 10.5.5 and so far only occurs when I use sleep mode, hence I can;t use it anymore.
The pain in the butt is that I probably would be best advised to do a complete clean install, hence have to authorise all my software again. - Sigh - I intend to wait with that until i received new HD's.
Best wishes
OVS

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Am sorry to hear about the issue that and I’d like to help you with the issue that you’re facing,
And first I’d like to ask you to share with us the operating system version installed on your machine to be able to help you more.
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com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDateless load succeeded
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
BTCOEXIST off
wl0: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless controller
5.100.98.75
AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::checkStatus - received Status Packet, Payload 2: device was reinitializad
rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 6E918706-FC0D-37460-A3A0-6268A51DF93B
Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleAPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleIntelPchSe riesAHCI/PRT0@0/AOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlock
storageevice /IoBlockStorageDriver/TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF Media/IOGUIDPartit
BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
Kernel is LP64
com.apple.launchd 1   com.apple.launchd 1   *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
com.apple.launchd 1   com.apple.launchd 1   *** Verbose boot, will log to /dev/console. ***
Running fsck on the boot volume...
** /dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)
** Root file system
   Executing FSCK_HFS (version diskdev_cmds-540.1~25).
BootCacheControl: UNable to open /Var/db/BootCache.playlist:2 No such file or directory
launchctl:Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchDaemons
launchctl:Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /System/Library/LaunchDaemons
Any help or suggestions on what to do next would be welcomed.
I am in the middle of the Atlantick, stuck with a brand new, non working Apple MacBook Pro.
Best regards
Sergio Ramos

Reinstalling MacOS does NOT fix the problem for me. I'm still searching a solution !
Bernard

MacBook Pro does not boot when 'cold', Windows 7 on the other hand boots without any problem

Hey everyone,
I have a strange problem with my MacBook Pro mid 2009 13" running OSX Mavericks. For more than a year I have trouble booting my laptop. A 'cold' start (a fresh boot) usually ends with the prohibition sign on a grey back ground (starting in verbose mode results in the error message that the main drive could not be found). So far so strange.
I have Windnows 7 installed as a bootcamp partition. If I start the laptop with Windows booting is no problem and Windows runs smoothly (what a terrible world we live in). If I let the laptop run for let say 10 minutes and restart the laptop Mac OS starts without any problems. (It doesn't work if I immediately restart after windows booted; also reinstalling Mac OS as a clean install from an external medium did not change the problem; disk utility always finds something to repair but neither discpermission repair nor disk repair got rid of the problem).
As an additional comment a WD 500GB Scorbio Blue replaced the original hard drive about a years ago. I had no problems with the hard drive initally and I can't really believe that there is a problem with the hardware, I mean, why does Windows start and Mac OS doesn't?
Thanks for your time and help!
Marco

This isn't a direct answer to your issue but have you considered installing Wine so you can run the occasional windows app directly in OSX? It's a much more elegant solution IMHO. This avoids restarting all the time with Bootcamp and avoids crashing all the time (and the security risks) with Windows running.

LG Ally text message and gps problems

hello. ive been with verizon for about 10 years maybe. ive been overall happy with the service and customer service. but the prices should be alot lower.lol. i started out with the motorolas then switched to the lg phones. only problem with the motorola was the speakers. not loud enough. could never hear the phone ring. the lgs usually suffer from the same problem.
i had a few phone problems but nothing like this lg ally. im on my second one and about to be my 3rd one in about 3 months. 1st phone i had every problem under the sun. this phone i am suffering from text message problems and gps problems. i suffer from what everyone else has problems with. the messages wont send. they will eventually lock up. it will show the envelope with the red explanation point ( i think thats the graphic). then usually everytime when i sent a text the texts will close. it will send then bounce back and show up as a draft and i have to resend it and wait for it to go thru. finally the last problem with the texts. when i send a text a phone number from my contacts shows up and freezes on the screen. its in white text with a black background. its the same number every time. it stays on the screen until i restart or pull my battery out.
gps. when i open up google gps that comes with the phone i make sure the gps is on... when the directions are found and the map pops up 9 out of 10 times it just keeps saying searching for gps. the turn by turn never is found. the 1 time it does it takes a good 10 minutes to be found. atleast on my first one ally the gps did work 8 out of 10 times. it just took a good 5-10 minutes for gps to be found and show turn by turn.
anyone else have these problems? where you able to fix them or did you need to get a new phone? the 2.1 update was supposed to fix problems. i think they just made it worse. the ally is supposed to have 2.2 froyo. where is it. is it ever going to get it. i got this phone because i like the lgs and the keyboard. also the sales representative on the phone was giving the lg ally rave reviews. why couldnt he say dont buy this go with a motorola droid. this phone is the biggest junk ever made

I do apologize you are having trouble with your device I looked in our information system on the LG Ally in reguards to issues you are having it states if you have the Free Droid Security anti virus protection application down loaded it will cause the phone to lock up or freeze. Check and make sure you do not have the application on your device. Check you GPS settings and make sure correct. Go to Settings; Location & Security; make sure GPS is on wireless network. If this does not fix issue you can try doing a Master Reset on your device. Make sure your contacts are saved in your G-mail account or through Back Up Assistance.
Master Reset/Soft Reset:
Factory Reset option 1
From the main screen, touch menu tab
Touch Settings
Touch Privacy
Touch Factory Data reset
Touch Reset Phone
Warning: This will erase all data from your phone, including:
Your Google account
System and application data and settings
Downloaded Applications
It will not erase: Current System software and bundled applications; SD Card files, such as music or Photos
Factory Reset option 2 - Warning this will reset device back to original factory settings.
Turn off the phone
Press and hold "home" + "end" + "volume up or down" keys together for a few seconds when the device is power off
Once device displays boot information, release keys.
Soft Reset
Press the Power key.
Touch Power off.
Touch OK.
Press the Power key to power on the device.
or
Remove battery cover, remove battery and reinstall.Also there is a new update for LG Ally it will be the Froyo 2.2 but there is not release date available at this time it will post on your device when available. Hope this Helps. Leslie

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