Mac Pro 2008 slow application launch after startup?
It seems that my mac pro (early 2008 8-core) is pretty sluggish right after starting up. If I launch Safari it takes it a good 20 secs before I can actually use it. A browser window will open but I get the beach ball while it seems to be loading. There also seems to be a lot of hard drive activity after it first starts up. This also slows the system and you really can't do anything until it has settled down. I have Snow Leopard installed as an upgrade over Leopard. But, it seems to like it was this way with both operating systems.
I have a second internal drive partitioned for boot camp on the original startup disk. So, two internal drives and three external drives. Does this affect speed of overall system?
Anyway, is this common for this model? I just got a Mac Book Pro and it screams in comparison. It starts up and I can launch anything and there is no delay. I could be getting a little spoiled by this new mac.
Thanks for any help or insight!
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WILL A NEW LOGIC BOARD SOLVE MY PROBLEM?
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Took it in and they replaced the GPU card and PSU. Things were great ... for two weeks. Then suddenly the same symptoms, but at an accelerated rate of occurance. After a day, it did not power on at all save the three seconds of startup fans.
Took it in again. They AGAIN replace the known-faulty ATI Radeon HD2600 XT cards (two), the ones Apple have agreed to replace up to July 2011.
Well got the machine back and she worked like a charm... for two weeks. Same thing now. By the way all checks of hardware, ram, disk drives - extensively have come up OK.
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Mac Pro freezes or restarts shortly after startup
Hello,
My Mac Pro has developed a habit of freezing (including mouse pointer) a while (some 10 minutes) after powering on the machine. After a forced restart the problem has disappeared for the rest of the day. On some days the computer spontaneously restarts a while after powering on and then the problem is more persistent, with the light on the front flashing and the machine not getting through powering up at all. What then helps is removing and putting back the video card. I have already replaced the video card with a new one, after which the problem had disappeared for several weeks, but now it is fully back again.
Several runs with TechTool Pro did not reveal any hardware problem.
Can someone advise on how to diagnose the freezes etc. or even how to solve it?
Below is an error report produced after a forced restart.
Thanks for any answers!
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 493877 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: D7488D0B-AFE4-4AEF-B57E-147CF4D971A0
Tue May 8 20:01:18 2012
Machine-check capabilities (cpu 6) 0x0000000000000806:
family: 6 model: 23 stepping: 6 microcode: 1547
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5462 @ 2.80GHz
6 error-reporting banks
threshold-based error status present
Machine-check status 0x0000000000000005:
restart IP valid
machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x1000000020000000 invalid
IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000011 invalid
IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0xb200000084200e0f valid
MCA error code: 0x0e0f
Model specific error code: 0x8420
Other information: 0x00000000
Threshold-based status: Undefined
Status bits:
Processor context corrupt
Error enabled
Uncorrected error
panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff80002c2c95): "Machine Check at 0xffffff7f8192d876, registers:\n" "CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000099000, CR3: 0x00000000268f2000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660\n" "RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0x0000000000000001, RDX: 0x0000000000000000\n" "RSP: 0xffffff80f23fbc10, RBP: 0xffffff80f23fbc40, RSI: 0x0000000000000001, RDI: 0xffffff80e9afe148\n" "R8: 0xffffff8013f2c000, R9: 0xffffff80157da180, R10: 0x0000000000000c00, R11: 0xffffff80002d8220\n" "R12: 0x0000000000000001, R13: 0x0000000000000148, R14: 0xffffff8013f2c000, R15: 0xffffff8013da5040\n" "RFL: 0x0000000000000046, RIP: 0xffffff7f8192d876, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010\n" "Error code: 0x0000000000000000\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1699.24.23/osfmk/i386/trap_native.c: 278
Backtrace (CPU 6), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80e9b0dec0 : 0xffffff8000220702
0xffffff80e9b0df40 : 0xffffff80002c2c95
0xffffff80e9b0e0a0 : 0xffffff80002d83ef
0xffffff80f23fbc40 : 0xffffff7f8192643e
0xffffff80f23fbd20 : 0xffffff7f81927f68
0xffffff80f23fbdd0 : 0xffffff80002c41d4
0xffffff80f23fbdf0 : 0xffffff800022d2e5
0xffffff80f23fbe30 : 0xffffff800022dfd0
0xffffff80f23fbe90 : 0xffffff800022f383
0xffffff80f23fbef0 : 0xffffff80002157ff
0xffffff80f23fbf10 : 0xffffff800021bc5a
0xffffff80f23fbf70 : 0xffffff80002aeb80
0xffffff80f23fbfb0 : 0xffffff80002d8383
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement(167.3)[E08EC0D7-C364-3C57-A377-88 7B36241B1C]@0xffffff7f81924000->0xffffff7f8194dfff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
11D50b
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.3.0: Thu Jan 12 18:47:41 PST 2012; root:xnu-1699.24.23~1/RELEASE_X86_
Model: MacPro3,1, BootROM MP31.006C.B05, 8 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 1.25f4
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATI Radeon HD 4870, PCIe, 1024 MB
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x055D, 0x41505F4D503830305F424947320000000000
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x055D, 0x41505F4D503830305F424947320000000000
Bluetooth: Version 4.0.3f12, 2 service, 11 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet 1, Ethernet, en0
PCI Card: ATI Radeon HD 4870, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-1
PCI Card: ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATY,MotmotParent, Slot-1
Serial ATA Device: ST3500630AS P, 500,11 GB
Serial ATA Device: ST31000528AS, 1 TB
Parallel ATA Device: OPTIARC DVD RW AD-7170A
USB Device: WinTV HVR-900, 0x2040 (Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc.), 0x6502, 0xfd400000 / 3
USB Device: hub_device, apple_vendor_id, 0x9131, 0xfd300000 / 2
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, apple_vendor_id, 0x1006, 0xfd330000 / 6
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, apple_vendor_id, 0x0304, 0xfd333000 / 8
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, apple_vendor_id, 0x0221, 0xfd332000 / 7
USB Device: iP4700 series, 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.), 0x10d2, 0xfd310000 / 5
USB Device: Apple Cinema HD Display, apple_vendor_id, 0x9223, 0xfd320000 / 4
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8206, 0x5d200000 / 3
USB Device: SoundSticks, 0x05fc (Harman International), 0x7849, 0x5d100000 / 2
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, 800mbit_speed
FireWire Device: unknown_device, unknown_speedThis is the most recent kernel panic report:
So what does it tell?
Fri May 11 21:35:47 2012
Machine-check capabilities (cpu 6) 0x0000000000000806:
family: 6 model: 23 stepping: 6 microcode: 1547
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5462 @ 2.80GHz
6 error-reporting banks
threshold-based error status present
Machine-check status 0x0000000000000005:
restart IP valid
machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x1000000020000000 invalid
IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000011 invalid
IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0xb200000084200e0f valid
MCA error code: 0x0e0f
Model specific error code: 0x8420
Other information: 0x00000000
Threshold-based status: Undefined
Status bits:
Processor context corrupt
Error enabled
Uncorrected error
panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff80002c2c95): "Machine Check at 0xffffff7f8192d876, registers:\n" "CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x00000000b010300c, CR3: 0x000000002927c000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660\n" "RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0x0000000000000001, RDX: 0x0000000000000000\n" "RSP: 0xffffff80f29e3ba0, RBP: 0xffffff80f29e3bd0, RSI: 0x0000000000000001, RDI: 0xffffff80e9abc148\n" "R8: 0xffffff8013f2d000, R9: 0x0000000003000000, R10: 0x00007fff86f41e62, R11: 0xffffff80002d8220\n" "R12: 0x0000000000000001, R13: 0x0000000000000148, R14: 0xffffff8013f2d000, R15: 0xffffff8013da9f40\n" "RFL: 0x0000000000000046, RIP: 0xffffff7f8192d876, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010\n" "Error code: 0x0000000000000000\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1699.24.23/osfmk/i386/trap_native.c: 278
Backtrace (CPU 6), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80e9acbec0 : 0xffffff8000220702
0xffffff80e9acbf40 : 0xffffff80002c2c95
0xffffff80e9acc0a0 : 0xffffff80002d83ef
0xffffff80f29e3bd0 : 0xffffff7f8192643e
0xffffff80f29e3cb0 : 0xffffff7f81927f68
0xffffff80f29e3d60 : 0xffffff80002c41d4
0xffffff80f29e3d80 : 0xffffff800022d2e5
0xffffff80f29e3dc0 : 0xffffff800022dfd0
0xffffff80f29e3e20 : 0xffffff800022f383
0xffffff80f29e3e80 : 0xffffff8000234a80
0xffffff80f29e3ee0 : 0xffffff8000234e97
0xffffff80f29e3f20 : 0xffffff8000550ddb
0xffffff80f29e3f60 : 0xffffff80005ca448
0xffffff80f29e3fb0 : 0xffffff80002d7f39
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement(167.3)[E08EC0D7-C364-3C57-A377-88 7B36241B1C]@0xffffff7f81924000->0xffffff7f8194dfff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: SmartwareServerA
Mac OS version:
11D50b
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.3.0: Thu Jan 12 18:47:41 PST 2012; root:xnu-1699.24.23~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 7B6546C7-70E8-3ED8-A6C3-C927E4D3D0D6
System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 641570540722
last loaded kext at 30418113307: com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0 (addr 0xffffff7f80feb000, size 45056)
last unloaded kext at 96790614638: com.apple.driver.CSRHIDTransitionDriver 4.0.3f12 (addr 0xffffff7f80de6000, size 8192)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.filesystems.ntfs 3.10
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.4d0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.59
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.9
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.26
com.apple.kext.ATIFramebuffer 7.1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.1.7f9
com.apple.ATIRadeonX2000 7.1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBDisplays 317
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMCEDriver 1.1.9
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.2.2
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 4.7.5d4
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.5.3
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.0.1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.BootCache 33
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet 2.1.3b1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 4.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.8.9
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 4.5.8
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 4.4.5
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 167.3.0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 3.2.30
com.apple.security.quarantine 1.1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 167.3.0
com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 80.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.0.3f12
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.5
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.1.7f9
com.apple.kext.ATI4800Controller 7.1.8
com.apple.kext.ATISupport 7.1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio 2.8.2f5
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.6fc6
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.1.7f9
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.1.7f9
com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl 3.0.16
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.0.16
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.2
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.1d8
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.7.5d4
com.apple.driver.CSRUSBBluetoothHCIController 4.0.3f12
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 4.0.3f12
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.0.3f12
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDMouse 170.4
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse 170.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDKeyboard 152.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 152.3
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 4.4.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 4.5.3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 4.5.8
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 403
com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport 3.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.7
com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 2.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 4.5.8
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.4.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 4.5.8
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.security.sandbox 177.3
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 331.3
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 28.18
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.4
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6.8
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Mac Pro 2008 always crash after sleep and after first start
Hello, new in the forum,
2 years ago, I replaced the main disk of a Mac Pro 2008 for a SSD Samsung 470 256 Go.
Until then, it always crashed 1 or 5 minutes after sleep mode (which I didn't used much), and not always 10 to 15 minutes after the first start of the day.
No matter if I was working on it or not… Suitcase installed or not (no font problem here). Rest of the day was fine (if no sleep !).
The difference of speed was so big and "good" that I dealed with it. I though that the Mac Pro was a little old for the SSD technology, and that Apple would fix it, with chance…
2 weeks ago, I installed Maverick :
I got crashs during the work flow too. I needed to re-start 3 times at least… Re-start without extension was ok (or not), re-start, crash, re-start without extension, restart ok. I used Onyx, did PRAM too. And sometimes, I needed to re-install Maverick or even to do a clean-install !
So I suspected the Samsung 470 for all (sleep and work crashs) and replaced it for a Samsung 840 Pro 512 Go.
And the Mac Pro returned to Mountain Lion.
Not really better : no crash one day (yeeeees!) and crash after the first start the next day (nooooo!). Every time I tested sleep mode, it crashed.
My system :
Mac Pro 3.1 - 2,8 GHz - Quad
Mountain Lion, 10 Go ram DDR2, ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, 30' cinema display.
Adobe CS5 alone (minimal install) with Onyx to repair after each crash.
Could it be the video card, the mother board, the age of the boy ?
Thanks a lot !
Christophe SEdit !
I said that Finder and apps were blocked after 10 seconds (without extension).
But it was to clic on Launchpad that blocked all, and 5 minutes later it works again.
I did clic again on Launchpad, it blocked and 2 minutes later it appeared full screen but with rainbow circle, and quit.
- Restarted with extensions. Kernel panic!
- Restarted the mac and the grey screen with Apple blocked, without any mouse this time. 15 minutes later, still blocked.
- Forced restart without extension. Here are the reports of Kernel Panic and EtreCheck:
Kernel Panic Report:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 122463 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: 52E60929-F5AE-D9CD-04B0-1872526C0821
Mon Oct 13 10:58:17 2014
panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff8007cb8945): Kernel trap at 0xffffff8007ef69e0, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x000000000000008a, CR3: 0x000000002f749000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
RAX: 0xffffff80209bb7e8, RBX: 0xffffff801fc6d808, RCX: 0x0000000009000000, RDX: 0xffffff801fc6dde0
RSP: 0xffffff8131b7bbc0, RBP: 0xffffff8131b7bc00, RSI: 0x00000000000c43ff, RDI: 0xffffff801fc6dde0
R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0xffffff80220fbfa4, R11: 0x0000000000000020
R12: 0xffffff801fc6dde0, R13: 0x00000000000c43ff, R14: 0x00000000000c43ff, R15: 0x0000000000000002
RFL: 0x0000000000010202, RIP: 0xffffff8007ef69e0, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x000000000000008a, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x3
Backtrace (CPU 3), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8131b7b860 : 0xffffff8007c1d636
0xffffff8131b7b8d0 : 0xffffff8007cb8945
0xffffff8131b7baa0 : 0xffffff8007ccebfd
0xffffff8131b7bac0 : 0xffffff8007ef69e0
0xffffff8131b7bc00 : 0xffffff8007eee0d6
0xffffff8131b7be00 : 0xffffff8007d1a5d6
0xffffff8131b7be60 : 0xffffff8007d092aa
0xffffff8131b7bf50 : 0xffffff8007fe97ba
0xffffff8131b7bfb0 : 0xffffff8007ccf453
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mdworker
Mac OS version:
12F45
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.5.0: Sun Sep 29 13:33:47 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.48.12~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: EA38B02E-2B88-309F-BA68-1DE29F605DD8
Kernel slide: 0x0000000007a00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8007c00000
System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 121192507210
last loaded kext at 8889944220: com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60 (addr 0xffffff7f899fe000, size 28672)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver 2.4.7fc4
com.apple.driver.AppleTyMCEDriver 1.0.2d2
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.1.7f4
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.4.7fc4
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.12
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.1.11
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1
com.apple.kext.AMDFramebuffer 8.1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBDisplays 357
com.apple.iokit.CSRBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.1.7f4
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.ATIRadeonX2000 8.1.6
com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl 3.4.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.11d1
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.6.3
com.apple.driver.AppleMCEDriver 1.1.9
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.CSRHIDTransitionDriver 4.1.7f4
com.apple.driver.PioneerSuperDrive 3.3.1
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.5.6
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.3.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 635.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet 3.1.1b1
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 3.0.1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.BootCache 34
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.9.9
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.6.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 621.4.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 621.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.9
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 214.0.0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 4.0.39
com.apple.security.quarantine 2.1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 214.0.0
com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.6
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.4.7fc4
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.9.2fc7
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.12
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.11d1
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 86.0.4
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.1.7f4
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.1.7f4
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.4.7fc4
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.4.7fc4
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.4.5
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.7
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Model: MacPro3,1, BootROM MP31.006C.B05, 8 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 10 GB, SMC 1.25f4
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, ATI Radeon HD 2600, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x47523244463247425838454C3830304E3252
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x47523244463247425838454C3830304E3252
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x47523244463247425838454C3830304E3252
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x47523244463247425838454C3830304E3252
Bluetooth: Version 4.1.7f4 12974, 3 service, 12 devices, 0 incoming serial ports
PCI Card: ATI Radeon HD 2600, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-1
Serial ATA Device: Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series, 512,11 GB
Serial ATA Device: ST31000524AS, 1 TB
Parallel ATA Device: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D
USB Device: hub_device, apple_vendor_id, 0x9120, 0xfd500000 / 2
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, apple_vendor_id, 0x1006, 0xfd520000 / 4
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, apple_vendor_id, 0x0304, 0xfd521000 / 6
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, apple_vendor_id, 0x0221, 0xfd522000 / 5
USB Device: Apple Cinema HD Display, apple_vendor_id, 0x9220, 0xfd530000 / 3
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8206, 0x5d200000 / 2
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, 800mbit_speed
FireWire Device: unknown_device, unknown_speed
Report EtreCheck :
Description du problème :
Here is the report of EtreCheck after the Kerner Panic sent before.
Christophe.s
EtreCheck version : 2.0.2 (86)
Rapport créé 13 octobre 2014 11:23:31 UTC+02:00
Informations matérielles : ℹ️
Mac Pro (début 2008)
Mac Pro - modèle : MacPro3,1
2 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon CPU : 8-core
10 GB RAM Pas extensible
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1
2 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM 800 MHz ok
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2
2 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM 800 MHz ok
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1
1 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM 800 MHz ok
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2
1 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM 800 MHz ok
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 3
empty empty empty empty
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 4
empty empty empty empty
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3
2 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM 800 MHz ok
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4
2 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM 800 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Vieux - Handoff/Airdrop2 pas disponible
Informations vidéos : ℹ️
ATI Radeon HD 2600 - VRAM : 256 MB
Cinema HD Display 2560 x 1600
Logiciel du système : ℹ️
OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) - Uptime: un jour 0:11:6
Informations des disques : ℹ️
Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series disk0 : (512,11 GB)
Statut S.M.A.R.T. : Vérifié
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <non monté> : 210 Mo
MacPro SSD (disk0s2) / [Startup] : 511.25 Go (472.61 Go libre)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <non monté> [Restauration] : 650 Mo
ST31000524AS disk1 : (1 TB)
Statut S.M.A.R.T. : Vérifié
disk1s1 (disk1s1) <non monté> : 210 Mo
MacPro 1To (disk1s2) /Volumes/MacPro 1To : 999.35 Go (633.08 Go libre)
Recovery HD (disk1s3) <non monté> [Restauration] : 650 Mo
Informations USB : ℹ️
Verbatim Portable USB Drive 320,07 GB
Statut S.M.A.R.T. : Vérifié
disk3s1 (disk3s1) <non monté> : 210 Mo
320 Go Christophe Syren (disk3s2) /Volumes/320 Go Christophe Syren : 319.73 Go (313.64 Go libre)
USB 2.0 USB Flash Drive 8,17 GB
Statut S.M.A.R.T. : Vérifié
SANS TITRE (disk2s1) <non monté> : 8.17 Go
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse
Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
Plug-ins internet : ℹ️
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AdobePDFViewer : Version : 9.5.5 Aide
QuickTime Plugin : Version : 7.7.1
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Growl Aide
Time Machine : ℹ️
Skip System Files: NO
Sauvegarde automatique : OUI
Disques sauvegardés :
MacPro SSD : Taille de disque : 511.25 Go Disque utilisé : 38.64 Go
Destinations :
Data [Network]
Taille totale : 2 To
Nombre de sauvegardes total : 9
Sauvegardes la plus agée : 2014-10-08 01:39:21 +0000
Dernière sauvegarde : 2014-10-10 11:31:35 +0000
Taille de la disque de sauvegarde : Excellent
Taille de sauvegarde 2 To > (Taille de disque 511.25 Go X 3)
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0% ps
0% fontd
0% System Events
0% coreservicesd
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97 Mo Finder
75 Mo WindowServer
64 Mo com.apple.security.pboxd
64 Mo CalendarAgent
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My Mac pro 2008, not running after the Apple logo, i rebooting and i rebooting
My Mac Pro 2008 no boot afther the Logo Apple, reboot, reboot and reboot only, and in XP, the graphic is pertubed with bad graphics ... the mémory it's good, and i thinks my card graphic is out. SRY for my english, it's not my language. Help my please, my apple care is finished 10/2011, and i will repared itself. Many thanks. Alain Muno
Not saying this IS your problem, but … I just went through avery similar problem with Mac Pro3,1. Here is my story.
On boot of any Mac OP system drive, internal or externalHDD, (Lion or Snow Leopard), original Mac Pro install CD, Snow Leopard CD,nothing. (Would only go to gray screen,apple logo, spinning gear that would stop spinning after about a minute.) But, it would boot on XP drive. However, in XP, on Windows black startupscreen, had alternating columns of two different patters of blue dots and XPgraphics were not as they should be (larger icons on desk top, slow response,different size of desk top (maybe 600x400 when it should have been1024x768). Supplied hardware test showedno failures. Took it to shop. Their better diagnostics showed nofailures. All peripherals (my drives, myCDs, etc, disconnected. (NOTE: they didnot try a new video card since they did not have one.) Still would not start even using their drives(external or internal). Shop tried a newlogic board. That did not work and theyput the original one back in. Shop saidall they could come up with was new processors. This was not a cost effective option and they had none to try.
After thinking about it more, I figured it could be thevideo card: the original 8800 GT that came with the Mac: that it was so bad itwould not start in Mac OS but would limp along in XP. I was all set to buy another vid card one-bay just to try. While doing thatresearch, came across several articles on the Internet that discussed vid cardfailure due to micro-cracks in some solder joints. These develop due to age/heat cycles. The proposed fix was to ‘reflow’ the solder. Figured it was worth a try before spendingthe money on a new vid card. Found thesedetailed instructions on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7um_hZYom4 I followed the procedure, put the vid cardback in, and now it works just fine.
I did not and would not do this until I had ruled outeverything else. But, it has worked forothers and it did work for me. -
Mac Pro very slow with NAS (network attached storage) after OSX Update
*Hello,*
**I seem to have a rather unknown problem because after hours of google'ing I found nothing.**
**I'm working on a late 2008 Mac Pro with the 8 core Nehalem processor and 12 gigs of ram and some other hardware like a Blackmagic Decklink HD extreme.**
**(If you care to know the exact specs I can gives those to you, but right now I'm degrading the Mac Pro to 10.6.0.)**
**The Mac Pro connects via an ethernet cable > ethernet breakout > directly to an Mac Pro G5 PPC on a CAT5.E ethernet cable.**
**This G5 is running leopard and has our hard drives and RAID connected to it of which we work on our Mac Pro 2008. Normally this gives us the ability to read with over 100 mb/s and write at about 70 mb/s (Blackmagic diskspeed test).**
**But recently our drives got really, really slow. It wouldn't even play PAL footage realtime in our Final Cut timeline.**
**But as we downgrade to 10.6.0 this problem is gone. So we think that when we upgrade to 10.6.5, the problem initiates.**
**How does this happen and, more importantly, how do we get rid of this?!**
**Good to know; our 27" iMac or any other device in this building _does not have_ this problem. It's just the Mac Pro after an update.**
**Please help us out.**
**Kind regards,**
*W.*I have the same problem with any mac that has 10.6. On macs that I can go back to 10.5 on they work fine and fast. I install a used system at a client and that CPU is new enough to not be able to revert to 10.5 and their NAS is so slow that it is unless. So it's Apple's problem, they broke the protocol for NAS in 10.6 and will not fix it. My clients don't want to make the Move to 10.7 at this time,I am not eve sure if NAS will work well with 10.7 and I think Apple has to rethink its policy of forces us to upgrade to the lastest OS to get their problems fixed. Fix 10.6 to NAS protocol.
Maybe we don't need major system upgrades every year.. Fix the current system before you give us more problems with a major OS upgrade.
Now I might sound tainted, but I have been an Apple person since the first, Apple II came to market.. I sold many of them. So lets not go back to Apple 1980's when they couldn't get anything right.. They may be all powerful, now but they need to remember when there were rumors of them being sold and the stock sold for $11.00 a share.
I have searched for a fix, and many forums have stated the problem, but I just can't figure why they haven't relized that Apple mess up the protocol in 10.6. Its simple, everything works fine on 10.5 they forced us to upgrade to 10.6 and it's broke. go back to 10.5 and it's fixed. So logic states that Apple's 10.6 is different when it comes to NAS protocols... Simple... Fix go back to 10.5 Real fix.. Apple needs to fix it with a patch to 10.6
I have no problems with someone proving me wrong that it works fine, in 10.5 and is broken, very slow in 10.6.. -
I've replaced failed logic board in my Mac Pro 2008, but it's still not working.
When I press power button, all fans spins, GPU fan spins, but there is no chime and display.
DIAG LED shows only yellow STBY and green PWRG.
Please help !FBDIMMs
They age, stress, heat fatigue.
You just need to use RMA and warranty once you know which pairs.
And you should be seeing errors or wrong amount or something in Memory tab in System Profile.
Apple Hardware Test will spot parity error DIMMs and some hardware issues with RAM or Risers
Rember can try to look for errors but harder with ECC.
Don't. You can end up with corrujpt files, corrupt system, corrupt directory.
All of which takes more time to find and correct.
And you may need to do a clean install and go from there.
FBDIMMs should have lifetime warranty and buy from a reputable Mac source (Crucial, OWC, Kingston etc) that says "Mac Pro certified" -
mac pro too slow to use, spinning ball, no finder response, only hard power off, installing system stalls at 18 minutes left.
It is taking an hour to power up and mac apple logo appear onscreen. No finder controls or "clicks" are being recognized. Spinning beachball all the time.
Using hard power off and holding the mouse down, I was able to open the optical drive and then restart with "c" and ask the dvd to reinstall the system, but it has stalled before finishing the installation.
This happened about 4 days ago, first it started responding slowly, and then it just keeps spinning the beachball. I can't find hardware test. I did run etrecheck, it did not have any error messages, but I can't copy or move the data anywhere.... I am not able to access the mac pro with another machine, and now I am stuck in install freeze, so I can't copy etrecheck by hand onto a piece of paper.
Without being able to finish a reinstall, what can I try?
After it got bad, and before it got REALLY bad, I managed to repair permissions, but it took a long time. Most of a day. When I restarted from that, things were only worse.
Mac Pro 1,1 , 11 GB ram, 7300, 5TB hard drives, OS 10.6.8, the drive containing the system folder is/was 700 used, 290 free. While I could get commands to respond, I put Activity monitor on the desktop and watched it. System memory was 3.31 GB used, about 7 free, and some wired. No app was using a huge amount.
what should I try next? I put a bid on a new/old machine so that I could move the 4 hard drives over.Thank you for all your suggestions. Please correct me as I articulate this.
I have three versions( 5, 6, CC) of the Adobe Master Collection which I keep active for different clients. I have final cut and motion. I have Office 365. I have a collection of graphic apps that are individually not too big but in all, my app folder is 65GB and my bootcamp partition is 61GB. I can't fit all this on 120 ssd and a 256 will be full once I install, correct? drives should be half open?
Somehow I did not make it clear enough that I was trying to copy onto a 2TB drive I had just initiallized in order to try and save files from my startup drive. I don't use time machine. I take a day or a few days worth of documents and physically move them to another drive at night. If a series is finished I make two dvd's as well. The second black drive that was failing was the drive I moved my backup documents onto. At no point was I trying to backup onto the failing drives. I was trying to copy off both of them onto the other two drives, a third aux backup that has been there for a while, and a newish 2 TB which I designated as the startup drive when all this trouble started.
I wondered if there were any good techniques for trying to get the data off the failing drive. Thanks for the suggestion of Data Rescue 3. I don't have it yet, but I will try it as soon as I get it. I was never trying to repair in place.
I am very interested in getting a pci bracket and an ssd, but I may wait until I can afford the larger one. If I get an older bracket that is compatible with my old mac pro 1,1 , I'd like to be able to move it to a mac pro 3,1 if I get one. Will the larger ssd drives be compatible with the sata in a pci bracket that can work in my mac pro 1,1 ? sata 2 versus something else? If 240 or 256 is my size limit, how much more than my 65 and 61 GB partitions can I put on there? How much of a scratch disc can I make if I leave another 39 GB of headroom on my bootcamp partition? I'm filling 165 GB without making any allowance for temp files.
You have said that 120 is enough for any system. I think I must be misunderstanding something. Are you saying that assuming that most people run office and photoshop and maybe lightroom?
I have and use 4 HDD in this machine, mostly for document storage in two places.
I took out all but the group of 2GB ram chips I bought a year and a half ago. The old ram had passed the hardware test the last time I had access to the hardware test. Two black drives failed, one was a year old and one was a year and a half old, and that it may have been exacerbated by the heat wave. I don't know why the video and the monitor were affected save that the startup drive was failing. I am trying to replace the card.
With all this said, I am also looking at a used mac pro 3,1 with a better video card since a newer machine will likley be compatible through another OS upgrade. If a machine costs only a little more than a new card, it might be a better way to go.
I don't have any sources that offer an ssd for 100. ( of a size that is useful)
How large is your application folder? -
Mac Pro 2008 Apple Cinema Displays are black and there are start up issues
I have a Mac Pro 2008 Dual quad 2.8 GHz. I have two Apple Cinema Displays (graphics are the standard ATI Radeon HD 2600 – 2 dual link DVI. I have 4 2-GB RAM sticks (8 GB total).
Neither of my displays are showing anything. Their power lights are on but they are completely black throughout the start up process. In addition when I try to boot up with both graphics cards installed, I get nothing – no beeps no chimes. If just one card is installed (either card in either slot) the computer beeps, chimes and makes the sounds of booting up, but not a flicker on the displays. RAM does not seem to be the issue as I have tried booting with several configurations of RAM sticks with no negative or positive effects. I tried booting up with Hard Drives 1 & 2 removed with no effect. I have tried several different start up moods and have reset PRAM.
My guess is that there is something wrong with the motherboard. Or is it possible that both graphics cards are bad?The "least intensive" thing you can do is hold down Alt/Option at Startup. Thsi invokes the all-in-ROM Startup Manager, which will light up the screen gray or blue, then attempt to draw an Icon for each potentially-bootable Volume attached (if any). It works as if in slow motion, so you must be patient. If no activity after about two minutes you may count that as a failure.
The next most intensive is to attempt to boot from an incorruptible source of software, such as an Installer/Utilities DVD. This again uses the "one-size-fits-all" display driver, and attempts to load software off the DVD. The dark colored Apple is loaded off a drive -- it is not present inside your Mac.
The next most intensive step is to attempt to boot into Safe Mode. This also uses the "one-size-fits-all" display Driver, and does a disk check as it starts up, adding five minutes to the startup time. It then drwas a login screen and deamds your username and password, even if you normally auto-login. -
Mac Pro 2008 won't boot from install disc - black screen
Hello,
I recently purchased a new hard drive to replace the original that came with my Mac Pro 2008. I was able to format the new drive using Disk Utility. I am now at the point where I need to install OS X onto the new drive, but the computer refuses to boot from the disc. The disc is recognized by the computer (I can access the disc and am able to use the BootCamp applications, etc.) but I just get a black screen when trying to boot directly from the disc. The computer boots fine otherwise.
I have tried the following:
I have tried using both the gray install disc that came with the computer and the Snow Leopard Install DVD disc.
I have tried booting using the "C" key and the "option" key but still receive a black screen following the chime (I've held these down for several minutes).
I have tried restarting from either install disc using the Bootcamp Assistant.
I have tried running the installation software to get it to restart from the disc.
I have tried a combination of the drives, i.e. trying to boot from the discs with just the new drive installed, just the original drive installed, and with both in bay1 and 2.
Everything results in the computer starting up, hearing the chime, and then nothing..just black screen. I have the original drive partitioned with BootCamp with OSX Snow Leopard and Windows 7 installed (I don't know that that matters).
I am at a loss as to what to try next. It doesn't seem like the superdrive because it is recognizing the disc, it just won't boot from it.
Any help is appreciated, thank you.Clone should be a must and easy to do and learn (learn by doing! 2)
6800 would 'qualify' as 5x70 series flashed etc and same rule: 10.6.5
In the past there was 10.4.6, 10.5.6, but not 10.6.6 - even though strong need for such a DVD.
10.6.8 DVD would be excellent
Lion or ML - buy, download, make an installer flash card would be what I would do at this point.
Then keep both - dual boot as you learn and test and see what ML does and waht you had that required Rosetta to support PowerPC. See www.roaringapps.com about that.
With Carbon Coyp Cloner - was share, now commercial, great utility been around since 10.2.2 at least - this time 2003. 10 yrs.
You can clone the system folders, you can even selectively choose. You can skip copy of most of your home account and do that separately to another drive if you want.
Clone Windows with Paragon or WinClone and use Windows 7 or 8 DVD to do a system repair (automatic) or to edit the BCD file. It can and should - and all you do is boot Windows 7 DVD w/ only the one drive present and go at it. Piece of cake. But yes, Windows gets fussy if you change or remove or move. BCD to the rescue. A proper program for cloning like Paragon's "Clone OS" meant for going from disk drives to SSDs, knows that and how to do it.
Back to how to clone etc:
Clone
Disk utility has RESTORE which will also clone your system but not the Lion Recovery partition. Oddly Apple did not 'endorse' making bootable clone of the system which works too but most choose Carbon Copy Cloner - it works more consistently; it allows for smart update of the backup volume. Both can backup to a sparse disk image if desired.
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
http://www.bombich.com/software/updates/ccc-3.5.html
OS X Lion Install to Different Drive
How to create an OS X Lion installation disc MacFixIt
Migration Assistant Update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
http://www.apple.com/support/lion/installrecovery/
Create an OS X Lion Install disc
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20080989-263/how-to-create-an-os-x-lion-ins tallation-disc
How to clone your system:
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
http://www.macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120711_2-MacPro-internal-clone-ba ckup.html
The DVD is dependent on your hardware. And your hardware changed. The drivers for the 5780 and 6xxx are bundled in the OS and lacking. Minimum build thing.
Put the new drive anywhere you want. Does not matter. Can move it later. Can be drive bay 0-3 or a Firewire external or under the DVD drive.
When you clone pull the old drive and boot from the newly cloned.
After that keep a backup clone around all the time. Takes less than 10 minutes to do a smart update to copy just the changes to keep it current. So you have working copy of the system. I keep Clone "A" that I keep "as was" the system as of last month or whatever (like 10.7.4 before upgrade to 7.5).
Comes easier after doing it once and have all your ducks in a row. -
Mac Pro 2008 Won't Start Up without Option Key
Hi.
I cannot start up my Mac Pro 2008 without holding down the Option key.
My Snow Leopard internal hard drive failed, so I replaced my failed internal drive with a brand new one and put the cloned backup onto it. I also have other internal drives and partitions with systems 10.5.6, 10.7.5, and 10.8.4. I briefly added a Mavericks partition, but removed it.
I THINK the problems started after the HD failure, but I'm not sure. I added no peripherals recently, although I did add 4 gigs of RAM which were faulty and I had to replace them. But they test fine with a memory test.
If I Restart, the Mac comes up with a grey screen and won't boot into any system.
If I Shut down, then Start up, I get the gray screen.
In System Preferences, I can see every single possible Startup Drive, but no matter which one I select, the same gray screen happens on boot up.
However, if I hold down the Option key (from startup or restart), then I can choose any startup volume and it starts just fine.
I've run Disk Utility many times for Repair Disk and Repair Disk Permissions on every volume. I've run Disk Warrior. I've zapped the SMC/PRAM, etc. I've tried starting up from external firewire drives and USB drives. No matter which drive I select in StartUp Disk Preferences, it's the same grey screen.
I've tried starting up with ZERO peripherals attached except for USB keyboard and mouse.
I've taken out all startup and login items.
I'm don't know what else to try. I don't mind using the Option key every time, but I'm worried it's a sign of impending problems.
Thanks!Barry, thanks for your reply. Yes, that's what I mean when I wrote:
"In System Preferences, I can see every single possible Startup Drive, but no matter which one I select, the same gray screen happens on boot up."
I selected a default startup volume in sys preferences, closed it, and restarted. I tried every volume possible in turn.
But thanks for doublechecking -
HT1338 mac pro runs slow since I installed mountain lion
mac pro runs slow since i installed mountain lion
First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Otherwise, take the steps below when you notice the slowdown.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
Step 2
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long. -
Mac Pro 2008 or iMac 27 i7 ? Which to choose?
I am looking to upgrade to a faster Mac from my current Macbook Pro and decided either on an iMac 27 inch i7 2.8 GHz 8 Gigs RAM 4870 Video card or buy a used Mac Pro 2008 with 2 x 2.8GHz 4 Core (8 core total) with 10 Gigs RAM and an 8800GT video card.
Both come to almost the same price. Problem is I don't know which to get. The system will be used mainly for software development, running windows 7 and linux as Virtual Machine, some light gaming, and music (sampling, etc)
I love the iMac's LED screen and the i7 certainly is fast but love the Mac Pro's expandability in terms of hard drives and memory and I would use it on my 30 inch LCD. That said, would I ever go past the Mac Pro's configuration of 2 TB's of drives (maybe) and more than 10 Gigs RAM (don't know)? You're stuck with the iMac in terms of hard drives forced to add slow external cases.
The Mac Pro is over 2 years old at this point but I know the Mac Pro is a work horse and the iMac has had issues.
Anyone have an opinion on this? Might it be worth saving some more cash (although would take another 6 months) and getting a 2009 Mac Pro?
Let me know...Asked a lot and the new iMac makes it look better, but not for triple boot unless you stict to VMs most of the time. The freedom of having alternate OSs on their own drives and such.
AppleInsider gave the high end iMac makes sense if you go that route, and if you would need a monitor as well?
Barefeats has posted a number of tests of the iMacs
http://www.barefeats.com
Even the 2009 $2149 4-core is no slouch and easier to find and work with.
At that price, you are close to the 2010. So wait another 36 hrs.
http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html
http://www.barefeats.com/nehal17.html
Apple Specials change during the day, they disappear quickly.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac/mac_pro -
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Does the monitor work now from a reboot?
IOf yes then:
OS X: When your Mac doesn't sleep or wake - Apple Support
Apple computers: Black screen or unresponsive Mini DisplayPort display after sleep - Apple Support
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Hi,
I have a Mac Pro 2008 with only 4 cores and simple graphics card.
The rendering of previews has become pretty slow (could be due to the large size of the catalog).
Also I noticed that even displaying a preview that had already been created before takes very long time. This could be because the preview cache is full.
I already moved the catalog onto the fastest SSD on the market without great improvement.
Now I wonder if I could speed up lightroom by attaching powerful graphics card with eg. 192 cores.
Has anybody experience with this? Will it boost LR's performance or not?
Thanks.
MarcHi,
a better graphic card does not improve speed. Just cpu and 8gm ram work.
LR renders the displayed image on the screen if you are in develop mode. So, more resolution decreases lr speed :-(
Maybe you are looking for
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