Mac Pro 1.1 2006-2007

Originally this posted as 1996-1997 as I was attempting to post this at 2:30am.
I recently had an experience with my Mac Pro 1.1 where it started lagging badly and when I attempted to reboot it locked up. At one point the Time Machine external drive unmounted and my USB ports weren't functioning. Later I attempted to retrieve the back up drive and do a complete restore, but found Disk Utility would never finish repairing the disk and permissions. In fact, this caused the Mac Pro to lock up and I would lose my USB ports again.
I ran the Apple Hardware Test twice and no results that would tell me what happened.
It was until I purchased a new drive to put in the external back up drive that my Mac Pro returned to normal. In fact I have seen better performance.
My question is, is I would like to hear opinions on this. Was this a gradual failure of a back up drive that had slowly been causing my Mac Pro to run sluggish until it finally crashed? Can a failing back up drive using Time Machine cause this? If not then what caused the Mac Pro to lock up? What can cause USB ports to stop functioning altogether and then return not afte a reboot but eventually?
I'm concerned that I could be losing my Mac Pro in the near future. I would love the new Mac Pro coming out later this year, but money is an issue right now. I would not be happy with a Mac Mini and iMacs are still financially out of my reach as well.
Thanks you.

My advice:
Replace the system drive with a Samsung 840 120 or 250GB SSD
Upgrade boot drive on a regular basis - for some that might be every two years
You are STARVING your system with so little memory. Anemia most likely.
If you are running Lion then upgrade to 10.7.5
If you did not do a "clean" install of Lion ./ or at least a clean install of Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and then update to Lion, that too can be an issue.
Remove the very old 512MB DIMMs taking up space and replace with 4 x2GB ($60)
How To Install and Remove Memory Mac Pro
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4433
http://www.datamemorysystems.com/apple-mac-pro-8-core-2-x-quad-core-intel-xeon-3 -0ghz-bto-2007-memory-upgrades/
2x2GB FBDIMM DDR2 667MHz @ $32
http://www.amazon.com/BUFFERED-PC2-5300-FB-DIMM-APPLE-Memory/dp/B002ORUUAC/
http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT2KIT102472AF667
Mac Pro 8GB Kit
Komputerbay 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR2 667MHz ECC FB-DIMM 240 PIN
http://www.amazon.com/Komputerbay-PC2-5300F-Buffered-FB-DIMM-Heatspreaders/dp/B0 05HIWD5U/
SSD: Samsung 840 128GB
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Series-120GB-internal-MZ-7TD120BW/dp/B009NHAF06/
An SSD is a great way for $100 to make your mac faster and better than ever. Not justs quick boot and program launching but that too.
And a 1-2TB WD Black for data.
And of course you should be cloning your system, cloning your data drive(s), even swap and use a 2nd TimeMachine drive "only on weekend" to have a redundant backup set there too.
And instead of using USB, use FW400/800
You also have two extra SATA ports on the logicboard. For $25 run through a PCI card out the back for backups (not hot swap though). Ideal is to have internal 1-3TB drive for backup.
Can also add PCIe SATA card to add external backups; add USB3 (iffy).
If you have been living on 3GB RAM you have not been seeing good performance from your Mac Pro 1,1 (same model as mine, 7 yrs old this week)

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