Mac pro 2009 video
I'm experiencing some weird video problems with my early 2009 Mac Pro. Every once in a while, my Mac is unresposive. When this happens, the screen get these horizontal "bands". They are about 20 - 30 percent of the screen as they travel up. Then the desktop is complete. The Trackpad moves; but I can't click anything. After that, I have to reboot. Video is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB. Apple Cinema Display 24". Lion.
Throw the user data on non-system drive, which is where it belongs.
Can't really affect booting. Only your apps of course which load from home account support folders.
And OS X can get along on 20-200GB with most being on the low end until you add lot of .... big programs and multiple versions FCP, CS5 and 6, X-Plane or anything else.
There is an option to verify a TimeMachine drive, not sure how deep it goes .
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
Cutting corners may work, but to rule out everything, a clean Apple OS, then keep that cloned for future, for emergency use only, and then build from there until you have a working OS and an image/clone of it for safety.
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Finally I decided to move forward and installed Mountain Lion 10.8.4 (with all the updates). Now I am facing a dilemma, my external iSight Camera is working fine regarding the video fee but the Mic is useless. I am using a Mac Pro 2009 and a Apple Cinema Display 30". I checked all the trends about iSight External devices but no one has a really specific solution for my problem. Firewire is not longer supported with Mountain Lion? By the way my iSight was working perfectly before. So I am wondering if something wrong happened with the OS and the support for this kind of device? I reset the PRAM, the SMC, even I reinstalled the MAC OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4) from scratch. So I am wondering if the problem is that ML is not longer supporting this device or what is the issue here.
Hope someone can help me with it!
Thanks
JalcomJalcom wrote:... Firewire is not longer supported with Mountain Lion?...
Not true. External iSight works fine with my '09 Mac Pro and 10.8.4.
Jalcom wrote:... So I am wondering if something wrong happened ...
So it must have.
Jalcom wrote: ... help me with it!...
You have tried several good things, but there may be other suggestions from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 that you have not yet considered. Be sure to check more than one Apple app in more than one user account to help you pinpoint the cause of your trouble. Then you will know what to fix.
In addition to the Apple troubleshooting, check your > System Preferences... > Sound > Input to verify that your iSight's mic is selected, not muted, and that its volume setting is properly adjusted. You may need to check this again after restarting Mac or changing apps that use the mic.
Also, be certain that the apps you are testing are configured to use iSight's mic. Different apps select the mic in different ways. For example, QuickTime X allow selection among various microphone alternatives via one of its preferences as shown in the image below:
(I was using my Display microphone and did not have my external iSight connected when I made this image. Therefore, there is no iSight mic shown in my list of mic choices above. If your iSight's mic is properly connected, turned on, and recognized by your Mac, iSight will show in your QTX microphone preference choice list.)
If you are trying to use your iSight with a Flash based web site, also check your Mac's > System Preferences... > Flash Player > Camera and Mic settings to verify that your Flash system preferences are not blocking your mic.
Some other apps may offer mic and or camera selection via their application menus. If you have trouble finding out how to select the iSight internal mic in other apps, check each apps' Help or post back the name of the app whose selector you cannot locate here so we can try to help.
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Mac Pro Quad Core (Early09) 2.93Ghz OSX 10.8.4 24" LED Cinema Display External iSights -
HD 7970 video card for Mac Pro 2009
I just wanna buy one HD 7970 3GB for my 2009 MAC PRO. Do you guys flash the card or does 10.9.2 natively support HD 7970 diver? I've been looked at some HD 7970 cards on ebay, just confused with the power cables, some has one 6 to 6 pin and 6 to 8 pin cables. Others has two 6 to 6 pin cables. I don't know which one to buy is safe.
Here is the link:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/141058814...84.m1438.l2649
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/231169142...84.m1438.l2649yes-i agree with what kaz-k has written. As long as you get the correct power cables for your graphics card you should be okay. I think the Mac Pro has 2 6pin sockets. We don't flash the card ( thought I'm assuming it could be done elsewhere) , and Apple doesn't support anything other than a few graphics cards anyways, and it doesn't really read what's been posted here. here's the takeway: The card will probably work, however, due to the lack of a Mac EFI (basically a boot rom), you won't see a startup screen should you choose to install the card into your mac pro 2009. As the OS gets going you will see graphics. Should you need to do basic troubleshooting, eg choosing which drive to start up from
(command R on startup, I believe), the lack of a boot screen could be troublesome. If you don't care about that, by all means go ahead. 10.9.2 should have support for this card. If it helps, I bought a Sapphire 7950 for my Mac Pro 2008 (3,1) and although it doesn't run at quite full speed, it was a breeze to install, and it beat the 8800GT which was in that slot
good luck
John B -
Guys i have a Mac Pro 2009 with 4 monitors attached.
Since i upgrade to 10.8, then to 10.8.1 and now to 10.8.2 my Mac Pro every time it starts, cannot remember the order and appearance of my displays so ihave to reorder them every single time.
Can somebody tell me what to do???
Please help me either wise i ma going to burn it!I have brand new 10.8.2 Mac Tower with two matching video cards ordered from Apple directly and have the same problem. It wont save the display settings and also cant seem to tell which video card is which either.
In addition, the screen display images if loaded from a personal folder, is also not remembered after startup.
Please advise us what to do, Apple!!!! This is urgent for me. I am proifessional user and this machine is for use on live projection shows. We put a ton of money into this machine and it can't even remeber the displays! Not very amusing. -
Nvidia Quadro 4000 is Freezing / shutting down / Buggy with Mac Pro 2009
I currently have two Nvidia Quadro 4000 mac cards and there causing my Mac Pro 2009 machine to kernel Panic and freeze or shutdown my machine.
I dropped it off at the Apple store for them to diagnose the problem for 9 days and they went ahead and confirmed that it was the card which was causing the problem.
NVIDIA PLEASE UPDATE YOUR DRIVERS FOR THIS CARD FOR MAC.
Its ridicules that if you spend $1200 (apple store) that it will crap out your Mac Pro. I'm waiting for a updated driver in order to test the stability with the Mac Pro
I'm almost 100% sure I did the 10.6.6 update with the stock card, then installed the most updated drivers from Nvidia website and then installed the Cuda Drivers, then finally installing the Video card in the machine. After two days, system was acting up.
Once I get my machine back from Apple tomorrow, I will go ahead and give it one more last try to see if it works. I'm mean the cards are amazing with Adobe Premiere and Media Encoder (super fast), but at the cost that your machine will be very buggy.
Lets wait and see what Apple, Nvidia or PNY will do about the big problem. I'm wanting to keep these babies, so make some moves people and fix the issues for the Professionals.I hadn't been experiencing the problems you have, but I have been having issues, and yes it absolutely is a case of immature drivers. When the card was released in December, nVidia merely did a simple patch job on the 256.01.00f03 driver that shipped with 10.6.5 rather than include an optimized driver that was comparable to the 259.x driver available on the Windows platform at the time.
Since then, nVidia's engineers have been hard at work doing what appears to be nothing for the Mac. On the Windows side, the Quadro drivers have progressed to 267.11. Rather than provide Apple with updated drivers to include with 10.6.6 or this week's 10.6.7 release, they chose to sit back and wait for the 10.6.7 release and then release their own update.
After 4 months, their best and brightest have brought us <drumroll> driver version 256.01.00f03. To be fair, they changed it from "v5" (the patch job to enable Quadro 4000 compatibility) to "v6". The idea was that it would add compatibility for the Quadro 4000 running under 10.6.7, Sadly for nVidia's Quadro engineers, that driver's installer didn't actually work. It took them nearly a full day to fix that, finally releasing 256.01.00f03v7. As expected, there are no improvements in either performance or stability. In fact, what happened to me is that the new driver actually broke compatibility with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5's Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration feature.
Fortunately, I still had my GTX-285 card available, and this evening I pulled the Quadro and re-installed the older GTX card. I really wish nVidia would care enough to release a solid driver update, I really want to like the Quadro 4000. On paper the potential for video production and OpenGL rendering performance should be huge. -
Will Remote Desktop allow me to access and use my Mac Pro 2009 from my MacBook Pro 2011?
Own a small business, have two locations, I need to use Windows via Parallels on my Mac Pro 2009, but I am forced to spend most of my time at the other location which has a MacBook Pro 2011. Will Remote Desktop allow me to use the MacBook Pro 2011 to access the Mac Pro and use Windows via Parallels?
If all you need is to be able to control another computer, then ARD would be overkill. If the systems have Mac OS X 10.5 or later you can use the Screen Sharing built into those versions of Mac OS X to control the system.
Another and perhaps easier option is to use a service such as LogMeIn or TeamViewer. Either option may be significantly easier than dealing with screen sharing or ARD.
You'll want to confirm that any solution you choose will work with Parallels, of course. I haven't tried remote control of a system to use Parallals, so there may be special considerations there. If you don't get useful comments here, you might try Parallels' forums.
Regards. -
Hello,
Since yesterday my computer simply refuse to boot (Mac Pro 2009, Quad-Core 2.93 with a flashed Radeon 5870).
It was working fine the day before, I shut it down, unpluged it and when I came back the following day it wasn't working anymore.
When I try to boot it I can hear the fans but not the starting "DONG" it should do.
I tried to replace the graphic card with my old ATI 4870, tried to switch with some old RAM I had and tried to disconnect my hard drives one by one but it did nothing at all.
The only thing I have is this red dignostical LED you can see on this picture. I tried to find it's meaning but I wasn't able to find anything.
It would be nice if someone was able to tell me what this LED meant (and even nicer if it wasn't something expensive to replace !).
Thanks !Hello once again,
So, I finally had time to look a little deeper into this processor board and after removing the heatsink and cleaning the processor I noticed two little plastic screws (the ugly little red arrow on the picture I took from macbidouille.com, not the nice and big one) maintaining another heatsink on the board.
I'm not sure what is the component under this heatsink but one of these screws was broken (they aren't really screws but I don't know how to explain in English) and the heatsink wasn't correctly positioned anymore so I replaced these two screws, put everything back in order (with some thermal grease on the processor and the unknown component) and everything worked like a charm when I was done.
Thanks everyone for your help ! -
Mac Pro 2009-2010 firmware tool
Has anyone tried the Mac Pro 2009-2010 firmware tool hack that is floating around out there? It seems to work with no problems. A cheap way to turn your 2009 quad core into a 2010 hexacore. The price on the Xeon W3680 3.33Ghz Westmere has come down out of the stratosphere into the $500 range. $500 for that kind of speed improvement and the ability to run 1333Mhz RAM seems like a no brainer if one were thinking about upgrading. Have other people tried this?
This is not the place and no I have not heard, if there is/was it would be talked about on MacRumors, netkas or others. And I don't think it would be just firmware update. OWC Turnkey program involves more than just firmware change.
The W33680 was $590 but has gone up (popularity and supply/demand) to $620. Not $500 (though if you sell your cpu later then the out of pocket might be more like $400). -
Mac Pro 2009 won't boot after airport installation
Hey everyone, looking for some insight here.
I recently bought a Mac Pro 2009 running Mavericks (at time of receipt). It didn't come with an airport card so I purchased one to install myself. The Mac was running fine until this evening when I finally got around to installing the card, however since then it won't get past the grey boot screen with apple logo. I've tried disconnecting the airport card to see if that reverted it, but no change. I also can't boot into safe mode, so that's no good. The only thing I can do is bring up the giant padlock with the option key held, which I saw elsewhere was connected with a firmware password (my admin doesn't work).
Any advice here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!It wouldn't be much of a lock if you could circumvent it with advice from a forum.
Obviously a valid point, although possibly somewhat niaive where forums are concerned (no disrespect intended).
It was more an expression of frustration than anything else, to be honest, though. It's kind of absurd that this happened following a simple hardware upgrade. Most people I know aren't even aware they can set a firmware password, so basically what it means is don't upgrade a machine that's intented to be upgraded (I'm aware of the hyperbole here).
Looks like it will be a Mac store trip, though, yes. A pain in the arse since even my nearest authorised technician is miles away. -
Mac Pro 2009 - Kenel panic problem, any ideas?
My Mac Pro 2009 is nearly 3 years old, haven't had any problems with it but in the last day i've had a crash and a kernel panic. 1st time a grey box came down over a quarter of the screen and the machine froze and I had to hold th power button to restart.
2nd time I had a kernel panic with the following error, I haven't added any new hardware for months. The kernel panic I got is as follows:
[COLOR="Teal"]Interval Since Last Panic Report: 3567480 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: 89C272F3-CAEE-467F-B957-F2D902168859
Mon Dec 19 07:00:42 2011
Machine-check capabilities (cpu 10) 0x0000000000001c09:
family: 6 model: 26 stepping: 5 microcode: 17
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz
9 error-reporting banks
threshold-based error status present
extended corrected memory error handling present
Machine-check status 0x0000000000000004:
machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000800 invalid
IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0xbe00000000400e0f valid
MCA error code: 0x0e0f
Model specific error code: 0x0040
Other information: 0x00000000
Threshold-based status: Undefined
Status bits:
Processor context corrupt
ADDR register valid
MISC register valid
Error enabled
Uncorrected error
IA32_MC1_ADDR(0x406): 0x0000000000000280
IA32_MC1_MISC(0x407): 0x0000000001061d50
IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
Package 1 logged:
IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
Package 0 logged:
IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
panic(cpu 10 caller 0x2aaf41): Machine Check at 0x00f039c6, thread:0x198cdb7c, trapno:0x12, err:0x0,registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0x000f7000, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000006, EBX: 0x16b18c00, ECX: 0x859250a8, EDX: 0x00000000
ESP: 0x93352680, EBP: 0x93352758, ESI: 0x16a2ca00, EDI: 0x00000003
EFL: 0x00000046, EIP: 0x00f039c6
Backtrace (CPU 10), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x85981fb8 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x85981fec 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x85982008 : 0x2aaf41 (0x59dfe4 0x59e0d1 0xf039c6 0x198cdb7c)
0x859820f8 : 0x2a29f2 (0x1 0x28 0xe8243489 0xfffeed30)
0x93352758 : 0xf04c58 (0x9fd722e8 0x76 0x3 0x2b1f6a)
0x93352858 : 0x2ad0c5 (0xffffffff 0x7fffffff 0x93352898 0x858ae000)
0x93352878 : 0x225bba (0x858ae49c 0x9fd6e6f1 0x76 0x858ae488)
0x933528d8 : 0x22698c (0x1 0x198cdb7c 0x16b030dc 0x0)
0x93352948 : 0x2275b0 (0x198cdb98 0x2198ae 0x0 0x0)
0x933529b8 : 0x227654 (0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x933529d8 : 0x2199ab (0x0 0x76 0x933529f8 0xbcb382)
0x93352a08 : 0x535547 (0xa 0x3e8 0x93352a58 0xbcb3d5)
0x93352a28 : 0xbcb348 (0xa 0x304 0x0 0x38377073)
0x93352a58 : 0xbcb6c5 (0x1791c300 0x93352a7e 0x0 0x93352b2c)
0x93352a98 : 0xbcb759 (0x1791c300 0x544d4133 0x93352df8 0x5526cf)
0x93352ab8 : 0x5542d0 (0x1791c300 0x544d4133 0x93352df8 0x0)
0x93352b08 : 0xbc742c (0x17760fc0 0xbcb726 0x544d4133 0x93352df8)
0x93352b48 : 0xbc98a7 (0x1791c300 0x544d4133 0x93352df8 0x2)
0x93352b98 : 0x56d196 (0x1791c300 0x18563c70 0x93352ddc 0x50)
0x93352bd8 : 0x56e2d8 (0xbcf570 0x19298700 0x18563c70 0x50)
0x93352c28 : 0x56eb59 (0x19298700 0x2 0x93352c70 0x0)
0x93352d48 : 0x286638 (0x19298700 0x2 0x18563c6c 0x0)
0x93353df8 : 0x21dbe5 (0x18563c44 0x191e05a0 0x8f9f0 0x6377)
0x93353e38 : 0x210a86 (0x18563c00 0x0 0x19815310 0x18717d90)
0x93353e98 : 0x216f84 (0x18563c00 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x93353f18 : 0x295914 (0x93353f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x93353fc8 : 0x2a20f8 (0x19274940 0x0 0x10 0x0)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC(3.1.0d5)@0xbc6000->0xbcffff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.3.0)@0xbc2000
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement(142.6.0)@0xf02000->0xf25fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: TemperaturMonito
Mac OS version:
10K549
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro4,1 (Mac-F221BEC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 509488144627
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet 2.1.3b1 (addr 0xee5000, size 0x118784) - last unloaded 126385491163
loaded kexts:
com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring 8.0 - last loaded 38786563416
com.parallels.kext.prl_vnic 6.0 11994.637263
com.parallels.kext.prl_netbridge 6.0 11994.637263
com.parallels.kext.prl_usb_connect 6.0 11994.637263
com.parallels.kext.prl_hid_hook 6.0 11994.637263
com.parallels.kext.prl_hypervisor 6.0 11994.637263
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com.apple.filesystems.ntfs 3.4
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com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 142.6.0
com.apple.security.sandbox 1
com.apple.security.quarantine 0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 2.1.14
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 142.6.0
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com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver 2.4.5f3
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction 17
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.0.5f14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction 14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction 10
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com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 2.4.5f3
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com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.3fc2
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.0.5f14
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.0.5f14
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily 41
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.0d5
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.7.0a1
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com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 2.4.5f3
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Model: MacPro4,1, BootROM MP41.0081.B07, 8 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.26 GHz, 16 GB, SMC 1.39f5
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATI Radeon HD 4870, PCIe, 512 MB
Memory Module: global_name
Bluetooth: Version 2.4.5f3, 2 service, 19 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet 1, Ethernet, en0
PCI Card: pci1033,35, sppci_usbopenhost, Slot-3@4,1,0
PCI Card: pci1033,35, sppci_usbopenhost, Slot-3@4,1,1
PCI Card: pci1033,e0, USB Enhanced Host Controller, Slot-3@4,1,2
PCI Card: ATI Radeon HD 4870, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-1
Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH41N, 67.1 MB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD6400AAKS-41H2B0, 596.17 GB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2, 596.17 GB
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HDT721010SLA360, 931.51 GB
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HDT721010SLA360, 931.51 GB
Serial ATA Device: SAMSUNG HD103SJ, 931.51 GB
USB Device: Hub, 0x050d (Belkin Corporation), 0x0234, 0xfa200000 / 2
USB Device: iP4300, 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.), 0x10b6, 0x41400000 / 2
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x5a100000 / 2
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8215, 0x5a110000 / 4
USB Device: USB Receiver, 0x046d (Logitech Inc.), 0xc52b, 0x3d100000 / 2
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, Up to 800 Mb/sec[/COLOR]Uninstall the Hardware Monitor kernel extension, reboot, and see whether there's any improvement.
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Mac Pro 2009 8 core with an endless cycle while booting up
Dear all,
My Mac Pro 2009 edition (2.26 GHz,8-cores) is suffering from a weird situation which I can't solve, so I post the message and hope someone can help me to find a solution.
On Monday Morning, I found the rainbow cycle is running behind the screen saver after shifting my mouse. The Mac Pro was not responding (can move mouse), so I pressed the button for 5 secs to shut it down. Then, I pressed the start button and saw there is a folder with question mark on the screen. After looking several web pages, I realized that it might be the RAID is failed for some reasons. I used the OS X installation disc to boot up and found that the RAID card was not recognizing the original RAID 0 build while the RAID card was shown to be healthy. I decided to restore my system from the time machine (WD Green 2TB x2, RAID0), so I checked the content of the time machine and hoped that I can find since when the machine is not responding. Then, it was 5:36PM on Friday, the last backup (backup per hour). So, it has been freezed for more than 2 days right after I left my office! Anyways, I used RAID utility to rebuild the RAID 0 (1TB x 4) and started recovering the last backup. After 11 hrs, the restore had been successfully done, so I clicked the restart button. However, after booting up, I got a grey apple and a running circle below it. The loading screen remained for 10 hrs and wouldn't get in.
I sensed that there is something wrong. It couldn't be fixed by simply restoration by time machine. Therefore, I started exhaustively surffing the internet and looking for an answer. Here are things I have tried but didn't work:
1. Restoring from three different time points: last time point, 1 hour before the last time point, and midnight on Thursday. Not working.
2. Remove Mac Pro RAID Card and use Disk Utility to build SoftRAID 0. Not working.
3. Remove ATI Raedon 5770 and replace with the original GT120. Not working.
4. Use Apple Hardware Test from Application installation disc to perform both default and extended tests. Found no problems.
5. Replace SDRAM with the originial 6GB (1GB x 6) SDRAM.
6. Tried reseting PRAM (3 to 4 times each)
7. Tried reseting logic board by following the instructions from macusersguide (http://www.macusersguide.com/2009/06/reseting-the-logicboard/).
(*)8. I tried to boot from another HardDisk, which I installed Win7 on it a few months ago (including all needed drivers for the Mac Pro). It is an originial Win 7 and it works! I also tried to test the 4 HDs by using the windows experience index. I tried 5 times (1 disks individually and all 4 disks enabled). All tests passed.
So far, I can only conclude that the hardware seemed fine, and it could be a software thing which blocks me from getting into the Mac OS.
I have been working on this for 3 days, and I am really tried. Could someone help me addressing this issue? Is there anything I can do to test which part is doing wrong? Should I test more time points in the time machine? Should I just hand my Mac Pro to Apple retail stores and asking for fixing (apple care expired and they would charge fees..)?
Thank you so muchFrankly, if you want a reliable backup from which you can boot the computer, then don't use TM. Use a backup utility that makes bootable backups starting with the Restore option of Disk Utility. Here are others:
Backup Software Recommendations
Carbon Copy Cloner
Deja Vu
Silver Keeper
MimMac
Retrospect
Super Flexible File Synchronizer
SuperDuper!
Synchronize Pro! X
Synk Pro
Synk Standard
Tri-Backup
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. -
Hi there.
I have a mac pro 2009 quad-core intel xeon and since i've updated to 10.7.3 i've started to have problems with audio.
Sometimes when i turn on the mac, the audio doesn't work (the audio icon in the menu bar is shown grey, and if i try to rise the volume using the keyboard it doesn't work.
I've tried to get inside the audio preferences and select a different audio output like the internal speakers (i currently have speakers connected into the jack output) but it doesn't work too.
The only way to resolve this seems to do a RAM reset during the boot, but it's very annoying do this every time.
Anyone can help me to resolve this? Is it a software problem? Or my logic board is going to die?
It never did anything like this before the update.
Thanks for the support and forgive me for my bad english.
Greetz,
LorenzoI'm having similar problems with a brand-new Mac Pro 8-core. Mouse cuts out (I'm using a wired keyboard thankfully) and my Jawbone headset will work wonderfully with my old MacBook Pro but will only pair (maybe) on my Mac Pro.
Called and spoke with an expert and feel I get the run around. He had me shut down and unplug everything for 30 seconds. I did it but felt he was just having me "do something" to get me off of the line.
Apple has a problem with Bluetooth on their Mac Pros and isn't dealing with it. -
HELP! Upgrading Graphics Card on Mac Pro 2009
Hi all,
I'm interested in upgrading my current graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB to something with more memory.
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out which brand to go with that'll be compatible with my Mac Pro 2009 model and will work well under OSX Mavericks.
I really dont want to break the bank. Need a good amount of GDDR5 ram for Adobe Creative Cloud mostly. Would also like to run some gaming on PC Bootcamp drive under Windows 7 (Titanfall, Crysis, Battlefield, etc). However that's all secondary, thanks for your help.LOTS of choices, depends if you want ones that will work without fuss (ATI 5770 & 5870 plus Mac edition EVGA 680 and Sapphire 7950) still give you boot screens if you option boot.
If you don't care about boot screens, you can use almost any recent ATI or Nvidia card. If you only boot into OSX, you can live without boot screens. -
How many Sapphire Sapphire RADEON R9 270X can i install in my mac pro 2009?
How many of the graphics cards can I install in my mac pro 2009? Sapphire Sapphire RADEON R9 270X
ThanksWhy? do you use FCP-X? that will benefit from two. Also gaming in Windows where you can use Crossfire
You have two 6-pin power feeds so you will need a small 450W PSU - those come with two 8-pin and two 6-pin.
Those can often fit in the optical drive bay and cost $25-75 range.
"500W" is NOT for the card! that is the minimum PC PSU only!
when buying look for card that uses only two 6-pin and not an 8-pin power.
75W for the PCIe slot, and 150W from two 6-pin cables, most GPUs fall into the 200-250W at maximum stress levels8-pin is basically two 6-pins and 150W feed
> we CrossFired a pair of Radeon R9 270s in our 2010 Mac Pro tower. Under Windows 7 64bit Ultimate, it registered 145 FPS in the Diablo test.
http://barefeats.com/tube06.html
Keep in mind that the Mac Pro tower can't feed enough power to the dual 980s, dual 290Xs, or dual 7950s.
We used an auxillary power supply to compensate.
For the hard core GPU rendering, there are external expansion boxes with their own power supplies.
In an earlier article, we featured the Cubix Xpander which facilitated the connection of 5 GPUs to the Mac Pro tower.
If you favor an AMD GPU like the Radeon R9 290X, MacVidCards can modify it to run at PCIe 2.0 bandwidth in your Mac Pro tower.
The Sapphire Radeon R9 7950 Mac Edition is available from OWC and TransIntl.
February 6th, 2015 -- Dual GeForce GTX 980s vs other Dual GPUs running multi-gpu 'aware' apps
February 6th, 2014 -- (UPDATE) GeForce GTX 980 GPU versus 8 other GPUs running Games and OpenGL Benchmarks
January 29th, 2015 -- GeForce GTX 980 vs 9 other GPUs running Resolve, LuxMark, and Octane Render
December 28th, 2013 -- Does Final Cut Pro X 10.1 render faster on Mac Pro towers with Dual AMD GPUs? What about Motion 5.1?
Things to keep in mind:
The Radeon R9 280X we used was 'un-flashed.' It booted OS X fine but there was no startup screen. Also, when we checked the speed of CPU-to-PCIe-to-CPU communication, it appeared to be running in PCIe 1.0 mode instead of PCIe 2.0. However, unless the GPU intensive app saturates the PCIe 1.0 bandwidth, it will not run any faster in PCIe 2.0 mode. http://barefeats.com/tube12.html
Which is one reason why you might want to buy pre-modified cards from http://www.macvidcards.com -
hello,
after update to OS X 10.7.5 on my Mac Pro (2009) USB ports don't work at all after wake up from sleep mode; with 10.7.4 there was (nearly) any problem.
the used ports appear to be "killed"; the unused USB ports seem to work, but the Mac works in slow-motion.
The only "solution" is to restart my Mac.
- SMC-reset, PRAM-reset or repairing user rights had no positive effect; what is the solution - a bug-fix-update???I have a mac mini (A1283) with OS 10.7.4. Upon upgrading to 10.7.5 it did not start up again. Instead, the light was on and the hard drive did not start up. The light on the connected USB mouse was not lit.
My solution:
Cold start with Command-v pressed.
This should start Verbose mode (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492 ).
What happened on my mac mini was that the grey startup screen with the Apple logo appeared for a long while before the login screen came.
Maybe Cmd-v set open firmware params and fixed some corruption.
Anyway: my mac mini works again.
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