Mac Pro: 2nd Display Problem

Hello,
I have been having a lot of trouble with a Mac Pro and separate displays. First, it took me quite a bit of playing around to get it to recognize the first display plugged directly into the DVI port. I then went to add a second monitor through a mini display port to DVI adapter, and I cannot get the Mac Pro to recognize the monitor. Nothing shows up in display to suggest that the other monitor is there. Clicking on Detect Displays does nothing. Thinking it could potentially be a bad video card. I am also sure that the adapter, cable, and monitor are not faulty.
Thanks!

The video card is an Nvidia GeForce GT 120 512MB RAM. It is a Mac Pro 4,1. I have double checked every connected and I know nothing is loose. Also, when changing out trying to change monitors in hopes that it would be detected, the Mac shut down because of a problem. All of this keeps leading me to a bad video card.

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SOLVED!!!!!
SO I did some more digging around and read ATI cards seem to overheat easily. I knew the fan was working, but after closer inspection I realised there was ALOT of built up dust on the card and clogging the fan and airflow. Blew it out with alot of compressed air, stuck it back in the Mac and BAM...no black screens. I tested it by streaming 6 video sources...doing 2 screen captures at once as well as watching a HD movie in fullscreen. Did all this for 30 minutes and no crashes. I also downloaded an app to monitor the temps inside the computer and the expansion bay stays at 41 degrees. No clue what it was before but obviously it was hotter than that. So my problem is solved! Funny that 10.7.5 made the card work harder. I wonder if its off loading some CPU stuff to the GPU for processing more than 10.7.4 so its just working a bit harder and so it heats up faster....

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So I have a Mac Pro and a Macbook connected in a network via the ethernet I use to access the internet. Shared some files out, everything works fine and dandy.
BUT,
when the Mac Pro's display goes to sleep the connection is lost. I noticed the Mac Pro takes considerably longer to awaken it's display then does my Macbook, might this have something to do with it - that is, does the entire comp just go to sleep with it's display?
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My approach would be to first remove any non-apple USB devices. Unplug any monitors from the USB connections and other USB peripherals. Restart. If it's still there, start from a second account. Create one if you don't have one. If it disappears then it's a software issue in your admin user directory. Still there? Start from your DVD. If it's still there then it's hardware and time for a repair. If it disappears then it's software and the approaches are many and varied. You might try resetting your graphics card to ensure it's well connected.

Is it good time to buy Mac Pro with display?

Hi There,
I am thinking to buy Mac Pro with display and I wonder if it’s good time to do that. Displays still waiting for update. We have been waiting for Mac Pro update long and as far as I see the update wasn’t what people generally expected.
And disappointing thing about Blue-ray drive as well. I think it was good time to put one in by Apple.
So do you think its good time to buy all that stuff or wait longer and perhaps better Mac Pro with new display will come out soon?
Regards

Rufus wrote:
Um no.. It's more than an "extravagant speed bump," the new Mac Pro is using the new 45nm chip architecture. In addition, the significantly larger cache and faster 800mhz RAM make for drastic performance increase.<</div>
Um...yes..
and with this new faster processor, I'm to do what with???...open an Excel spreadsheet a nanosecond faster, get a few more fps on Doom3? Woop-tee-do! I now have 8 cores but most software uses 1 of them while the other 7 purr in idle.
BluRay/HD video is here... or should I say HAS BEEN here for over a year now.... how am I going to use this new super-dooper processor with editing, creating, and authoring HD video and discs?
A faster processor at this point is meaningless without the tools to use it with.
All they did with the new MacPro is give you a computer that is worth the fixed $2800 price tag.
Reminds me of the tire commercial on tv where they describe this car with exotic and powerful 12 cylinder engine, and plush leather seats, and race proven suspension...... but with no tires.
It all looks great on a spec sheet, but you can't use it to do any real work.
I can film HD video all day long, but I can't use a Mac to put it on disc...... (but I can use a Dell!!)
There is no way anyone can explain this other than political.... I would bet that this has something to do with Steve's affiliation with Disney and other studios in regards to his doomed movie rental snafu. Apple has always been the ground breaker in bringing such technology to the market first (a mouse, a cd drive, multiple displays, a superdrive, etc.), and usually before the consumer even understands they need it. To be this far behind with BluRay, he's got to be holding back for a reason ... and I would love to hear it.
I've been a Mac user for 22 yrs and have only been embarrised to be so twice... once when the fruit flavored iMacs were introduced (eventually proved to be the best selling computer model of all times), and now with the absence of BluRay. I've been hoping Steve will prove me wrong again, but I've been hoping for year now... and am still waiting.
Um... No, the Mac Pros power isn't gonna do much for an excel spreadsheet.. However, I bought mine to use with Logic Studio which does take advantage of all eight-cores and the faster front side bus and RAM, and the performance is remarkable..
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If you really want a Blu-Ray drive in your Mac Pro, then just buy one and stick it in the empty optical slot, but be prepared for the price tag... http://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/
And if you use one of the Pro apps that takes advantage of multiple cores, the new Mac pro is a dream.. If you don't use one of those apps, you probably don't need a Mac Pro. At any rate, you're whole spiel about the Mac pro's power being trivial or useless is nonsense..

Mac Pro Kernel Panic Problems

Hi, thanks for looking over my sudden Mac Pro problem. Recently, my Mac Pro Intel Xeon started to have continuous Kernel Panics, all during simultaneous programs running, but also with a common Mac torrent program running, Transmission. Keep in mind that I've ran Transmission before in the past and this problem just came up. I did some research and a lot of people were complaining about Transmission causing Macs to slow down, were causing kernel panics, etc.-
So, I opened up my Mac Pro, cleaned all the dust on and around the motherboard, reinserted the 8 GB of RAM I have (description below), ran a full defrag through iDefrag, zapped the PRAM and reset the PMU..but within a day, this morning, my Mac Pro had another Kernel Panic. Within this timeframe I refrained from using any torrent program and when the Kernel Panic occurred, I had Safari and iTunes open.
- Mac Pro: OS X 10.6.8, 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
- 8 GB, 1066 MHz DDR3 from OWC ( Purchased in March 2010 )
- When the kernel panics first started appearing, I ran an Extended Apple Hardware Test (about 1 month ago), and this was the result:
4MEM/62/40000006
0x79c29e98
Pass #12
Below is the most recent Kernel Panic I got, this morning's. It would be great if someone who knows more about this would be able to help. Thanks!
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 242604 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          3
Anonymous UUID:                    3FB5C9C7-17CD-4B0A-8BAA-FA6617C8A98E
Sun Jul 3 12:47:02 2011
Machine-check capabilities (cpu 0) 0x0000000000001c09:
family: 6 model: 26 stepping: 5 microcode: 17
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           W3520 @ 2.67GHz
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): 0x0000000000000800 invalid
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 0 logged:
IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0xfe0000400001009f valid
Channel number:         15 (unknown)
Memory Operation:       read
Machine-specific error: Read ECC
COR_ERR_CNT:            2
Status bits:
   Processor context corrupt
   ADDR register valid
   MISC register valid
   Error enabled
   Uncorrected error
   Error overflow
IA32_MC8_ADDR(0x422): 0x000000020ad37000
IA32_MC8_MISC(0x423): 0x5293bd0b00040080
DIMM:     0
Channel: 1
Syndrome: 0x5293bd0b
panic(cpu 2 caller 0x2aaf41): Machine Check at 0x010ad893, thread:0xf5ca000, trapno:0x12, err:0x0,registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00770000, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000001, EBX: 0x010bfda8, ECX: 0x00000001, EDX: 0x010bf940
ESP: 0x8525bbd0, EBP: 0x8525bc28, ESI: 0x00000000, EDI: 0x0d592800
EFL: 0x00000002, EIP: 0x010ad893
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x7c376fb8 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x7c376fec 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x7c377008 : 0x2aaf41 (0x59dfe4 0x59e0d1 0x10ad893 0xf5ca000)
0x7c3770f8 : 0x2a29f2 (0x1 0x33223d46 0x2f223637 0x656b3c3e)
0x8525bc28 : 0x10a4ee7 (0x7c2be0a8 0x1 0xd592800 0x0)
0x8525bd08 : 0x10a6850 (0xc0ffd12c 0x6796 0x2 0x0)
0x8525be08 : 0x2ad0c5 (0xffffffff 0x7fffffff 0x8525be38 0x7c2e5000)
0x8525be28 : 0x225bba (0x7c2e549c 0xc0b33cbb 0x6796 0x7c2e5488)
0x8525be88 : 0x22698c (0x1 0xf5ca000 0xd5bb884 0x2ab22a)
0x8525bef8 : 0x2275b0 (0xf5ca01c 0xf5ca01c 0x8525bf58 0x233203)
0x8525bf68 : 0x227631 (0x552ed0 0xdf47a80 0x0 0x7c2e5000)
0x8525bf88 : 0x552f8c (0x552ed0 0xdf47a80 0x844420e7 0x7fff)
0x8525bfc8 : 0x2a179c (0xdf47a80 0x0 0x10 0x0)
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement(142.6.0)@0x10a3000->0x10c6fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
10K540
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: 113897176467659
unloaded kexts:
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Model: MacPro4,1, BootROM MP41.0081.B07, 4 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.66 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 1.39f5
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, 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: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-4
Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH41N
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HDE721064SLA360, 596.17 GB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B1, 931.51 GB
USB Device: Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x9136, 0xfd300000 / 2
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x1006, 0xfd330000 / 7
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0220, 0xfd332000 / 8
USB Device: Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x9137, 0xfd340000 / 3
USB Device: Display Audio, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x2912, 0xfd341000 / 6
USB Device: Apple LED Cinema Display, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x9236, 0xfd343000 / 5
USB Device: Display iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8508, 0xfd342000 / 4
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x5a100000 / 2
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8215, 0x5a110000 / 3
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, Up to 800 Mb/sec

Only by removing pairs. When you find the pair that caused the panic, then one of the modules is bad. Best you can do without proper testing equipment. An Apple service tech has the information to interpret the error codes generated by the AHT, so they may be able to identify the actual module.

Mac pro cinema display cuts out and can't access Mac with screen sharing

Hi
A weird thing has started happening to my Mac Pro today. After using it for a few minutes the cinema display it is attached to on the Mac Pro just goes black. The Mac Pro is clearly still on - the light is on and i can hear the fans. The Mac Pro shows up on my local network and i can connect to it and access files from my Macbook, but screen sharing doesn't work (i just get the message 'contacting mac pro' and nothing else) and i can't connect to shared iTunes library either, which makes me think it is not just a display issue. I cannot wake the computer with the mouse or keyboard, which makes me think it isn't just a sleep issue. All i can do is physically turn the Mac Pro off, start it up and it will start up successfully and then work for a few more minutes before i get the same problem. I have reset the PRAM and SMC and still have the same problems. Can anyone suggest anything else i can try?
I should mention that i have another problem with the Mac Pro in that it has been spontaneously waking up from sleep and starting up from shutdown, and i still haven't resolved this. I don't know if it is connected to the above issue.
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I have experienced almost the exact same thing with my new 2008 Mac Pro and my 30" Apple display. It has happened to me twice in the last few weeks. The first time I chalked it up to a fluke, but now that it's happened again I searched the forums. In both cases I've had music playing in iTunes which continues playing, goes on to the next track, and so on. So the machine has not crashed in full. I too can connect to the files via another computer on the network, but cannot share the screen.
I have not had the sleep issues you have had.
I'll look at the link you provided in your next post to see where that gets me, but I wanted to let you know you were not alone on this one.

Mac Pro Adc Displays

Hi
Since Friday i have a Mac Pro.
I connect my old Adc Cinema Display, with an ADC-DVI Adapter.
Everything work fine.
I have another 17" ADC Display.
Is it possible to connect two ADC Displays, with two ADC-DVI Adaperts to the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT Graphiccard without a problem?
Thanks
Greetings from Vienna

I'm seeing a lot of this.
Pay attention closely.
If you have an ADC display and you want to connect it to the new Mac Pro, you must buy a different adapter. The ones supplied with the Mac Pro do not connect an ADC display to a DVI Mac Pro. You need to buy one that has a power supply and a USB port. DrBott and Apple make them.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2925616#2925616

Mac Pro Freeze/Display glitch on start up

I've only been using my new Mac Pro (late 2013) for a few days now but am expereicing an issue on restart/start up. It seems the computer struggles to search for the two new 1920x1200 Dell displays that are hooked up to it through mini display-DVI converters.
Sometimes it only sees one display, but when it finally finds the second one (usually before the login screen,) the second display appears to look corrupted showing a grid of weird static blocks. This then makes the pinwheel appear and login screen become translucent and eventually freeze forcing me to perform a hard reset.
Usually after a few hard restarts and switching the display cables around, it eventually starts up.
I'm running 10.9.3 btw and also am plagued with the Adobe/GPU issue. Could this problem also be related to OS X?
Thanks.

Try using another keyboard; I know that may sound unrelated, but it's simple, and this is my reason for the advice:
I've been having my computer shut itself off either during sleep or while trying to wake from sleep. Attempting to reset my pram, as directed by AppleCare, caused my mac pro to exhibit these symptoms exactly: one mostly black screen with peculiar rectangular patterns which occasionally contain bits of text, and an Apple logo covering login area of other screen.
I found that these issues only occurred while I had the apple keyboard connected; it is the same keyboard as depicted in the two images above. After disconnecting that keyboard I was able to use another to reset the pram successfully.
The sleep and shutdown issues I've been having are still occurring.
Anyway, try removing your Apple Aluminum USB Keyboard and see if that helps. It may still just be a treatable symptom of a bigger hardware problem, but it might help some of you out.

New Mac Pro - A graphics problem has been detected

System:
New Mac Pro (late 2013)
AMD Firepro D300, 2GB
3.7G Quad Core Xeon E5
12GB Ram
250G SSD Internal
dual display, 24" samsung BX2440 and older 19" dell
logitech mx518 mouse
Apple wired keyboard with numeric pad
external USB 2T drive used for time machine
OSX Yosemite: 10.10
Problem:
Every few hours I get one or sometimes multiple errors where the OS pops a small dialog box
Sometimes I am in a web browser, sometimes playing a game, Garage band, sometimes in email, it doesn't seem to matter what is happening. The problem comes randomly and once it does, it freezes the UI solid until it resets the graphics card (or something like that). I was playing Legend of Grimrock and the thing happened, and the game created an error report stating "Graphics hardware encountered an error and was reset: 0x0000000e"
What I have tried:
SMC Reset
PRAM reset
diskutil check disk (ok)
diskutil fix permissions (ok)
apple diagnostics, no problem found.
Apple support chat session (no resolution)
Question:
Is this a hardware problem where I should just go get my money back and/or get a new computer?
If not a hardware problem, is there some well understood fix for this?
Frustrated and ready to punt,
Paul

The problem I observed was not always directly related to an app being run. It would also happen with interaction between windows (just clicking from mail to a browser, for example). When this occurred, the popup dialog would show (shown in OP) and the corresponding freezes for a few seconds while it recovered.
One time I had a crash in an app was during a game where the same issue happened, and the game shut down with a crash dump. As noted above, the game itself reported the error as "Graphics hardware encountered an error and was reset: 0x0000000e". This was in the crash dump report. So here, the cards saw an error, and the OS reset them out from under a running game, which objected strenuously and asserted down like it was supposed to do.
So I disagree about it being a software problem. I suspect there truly is a graphics card problem in this case. The frequency of the trouble went from once every few days, to every day, and then to every few hours during a 2 week span, so the trajectory was heading in the wrong direction.

My new MacBook Pro has display problems

I am new to Mac. I had purchased a brand new MacBook Pro 13 inches with i7 processor on April2 this year, Within 10 days the display screen started to grey out and later on develop horizontal lines. I telephoned Apple support and when a telephonic solution became unlikely I was asked to take it to an Apple Authorized service centre in my town. The technician there could not clearly explain to me what was wrong with the system, but I understood him to say that he has reinstalled the graphics driver and the system was trouble free for a prolonged time thereafter (at the service centre). I also understood him to say that should the problem recur again, he would have to replace the motherboard. I was on a travelling tour for a week after this and was not able to test out this repair (I took my old windows system with me for the travel) To my utter dismay the problem has recurred again after 28 days of purchase. I have attached screenshots. The button for uploaing videos is greyed out therefore I will have to restrict myself to screenshots. All the three screen images occcur
in turn and the system becomes unusable and I have to use the poweroff button. The display problems start within 10 minutes of switiching on the system.
I took some time to discover these forums. The first time this problem occurred on my machin I posted this problem on mac-forums and I was advised to take it to an Apple store and let the apple genius bar worry about this one. I do not live wihtin any sort of manageable distance from such a place and the repair centre is an Apple Authorized Service Provider
Coming to the emotional aspects of this technological glitch. I feel like I have been hit by a truck.I had saved and scraped pennies to buy this dream machine and I believed I was escaping the ficleness of windows. But no windows system of mine (I have three) become so unusable
Will I have to spend time and effort to lug this machine to service centre to replace each of its component parts one by one ? Can I ever trust this machine to provide a presentation to an audience? What sort of an impression will I create if the system plays this trick on me in the middle of some presentation?

Shootis007, What is CC company? I googled CC and got many different answers.
I called Apple Support and told them my story and pressed for replacement and they told me repeatedly that there is no policy for replacement. The initial support person who attended my call asked me to take it to the seller and ask the seller for replacement. I dont think that is the way to go. I dont know what is his fault. He gave me a brand new system, the package was opened by me. Since I am new to Mac, I had taken a Mac user friend with me who showed me how to get started (right there in the shop) Neither the experienced Mac user friend nor I felt anything remiss at that time or later at the Seller level. Nevertheless I called the reseller and he explained his helplessness. I dont think it his fault at all.
Since I kept insisting on replacment I was put through to another support person who took pains to reassure me that I should get the defective part replaced and thereafter all will be well. For now I trust him. I have no other alternative
I really am puzzled. All you dear Mac users should know that the machine I dreamed of and really saved to purchase is giving me no end of troubles whereas my three windows machines sit there with their numerous stated deficiencies but gives me uninterrupted service

PowerPC OS X HD put into Mac Pro 2nd Drive Bay

Hello all,
I have a PowerPC G5 and a Mac Pro. The G5 had two drives in it, a master boot drive with 10.4.11 on it and a second internal drive with 10.4.9.
I took the second drive out of the G5 and put it into the Mac Pro's second drive bay. The Mac Pro's main drive is running OS 10.5.1.
I figured that I'd have to run the Mac Pro installation disc on the second drive to make it bootable on the Intel system, but it's not allowing me to install. It keeps telling me that I cannot boot off of the second drive in the OS X installation destination window.
How can I fully strip the OS out of the second drive without reformatting it/touching the other files I have on it so I can basically start it as a clean slate for the Intel system installation?

Hi,
your problem is that your 2nd drive is formatted using APM (Apple Partition Map) instead of GUID. Usually PPC Macs use APM and Intels use GUID. Even though Intel Macs can boot from an (already installed) Intel OS X, the Install DVD refuses to install on APM partitions when run on an Intel Mac. So in order to install OS X on this drive you need to repartition it using GUID partitioning in Disk Utility. This will, of course, delete everything that's on the drive!
If you don't want to do that you can put the drive in the G5, install Leopard and then put it back into your Mac Pro and see if it boots.

Mac Pro Photoshop CS6 problems.

Hello All,
I have a new Mac Pro 3.2 Ghz quad core intel Xeon running 16GB of Ram (for now) on a Apple Display 30" When running very large files on PS CS6 the layers start breaking up into strange streaks and white blocks. Sometimes if I quit PS it goes away other times the artifacts are still in the file. Any ideas?
Thanks Everyone!

I wanted to follow up on my oringal post. I never did figure out the Problem after upgrading to 32GB of Ram and following many of the suggestions it did help a bit but on a rare occasion with huge files and layers open PS will stop working properly and lock.
Also wanted to share what I was working on at the time:
http://www.hatchillustrations.com/Volkswagen-Technical-Illustration-Posters
http://www.hatchillustrations.com/Volkswagen-Technical-Illustration-Cars
Thanks everyone for your help,
Jim

Mac Pro internal drive problems

Hi there,
I bought a Mac Pro in October last year for business use and it's been going fine until about a month ago.
I have two internal drives and one of them was making a terrible THUNK! noise, powering down, then trying to start again - you can hear it spinning, not quiet getting there, then spinning again. When this happens, the machine hangs, sometimes until the drive gets back on it's feet, other times I need to do a hard restart. 50% of the time the machine will not start at all. ( gets to gray apple screen and goes nowhere)
It seems to be the boot drive that the machine shipped with that's causing the problems as Disk Utility keeps finding erros on it. When I repair it, the machine works fine for a while until, when I'm working away, suddenly THUNK! and everything starts over again! Also, my bluetooth mouse and keyboard seems to be palying up too, but I don't know if this is related.
I'm tearing my hair out and I need to edit some video on it for work soon, but this seems like it's going to be impossible if the drive keeps stopping like this!
Any advice would be much appreciated!
David Newbigging
Mac Pro 2.66 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Definitely get the backups current, an external FW would be nice to have too so you have it off line.
I zero every drive before using. It is possible that there are bad blocks. Which, according to a Google report, means it is likely to fail anyway. But zero the drive may be enough. Or 7way write erase.
Or use Windows and the vendor disk utility (which seem to be limited to DOS or Windows, even Vista has one) to recertify the drive.
I would buy a drive now, and try to get it replaced.
A severely corrupted directory can cause a drive to sound like it is in the death throes of failing.
Do you have Disk Warrior 4? have you installed Applejack? used Single User Mode and run fsck to repair the drive?
And have you already setup a 2nd boot drive? always essential to have an emergency boot drive; a working backup drive; and your main boot drive.
If a drive is going to fail, make it early on.
There are tools like Intech Speedtools to test and remap bad blocks. I always test and torture test a drive for a few days before trusting it.

Mac Pro USB port problem

The front USB ports on my 2010 Mac Pro aren't working. Every time I boot the Mac, I get a message window - twice - saying they were drawing too much power, and have been switched off, even though they're empty.
I've tried resetting the PRAM, powering off and unplugging everything and removing the battery from the logic board. Nothing has worked. The two front-facing FireWire ports are working, but the USB ports just won't come alive. Does anyone have any further ideas?

I would run the Apple Hardware Test:
Checking for a Hardware Problem
If you suspect a hardware problem, use the Apple Hardware Test application to help
determine if there’s a problem with one of the Mac Pro components.
To use Apple Hardware Test:
1. Disconnect all external devices from your Mac Pro, except the display, keyboard,
and mouse.
If you have an Ethernet cable connected, disconnect it.
2. Restart your Mac Pro while holding down the D key.
3. When the Apple Hardware Test chooser screen appears, select the language you
want to use.
4. Press the Return key or click the right arrow button.
5. When the Apple Hardware Test main screen appears (after about 45 seconds), follow
the onscreen instructions.
6. If Apple Hardware Test detects a problem, it displays an error code. Make a note of the
error code before pursuing support options. If Apple Hardware Test doesn’t detect a
hardware failure, the problem may be software related.
You may also consider replacing the front panel board.

Mac Pro / Cinema Display slow boot time

Hi there,
I have a late 2008 Mac Pro, running OSX 10.6.8 and it is connected to a 23" Apple Cinema Display.
A couple of days ago I noticed that when I switched the Mac on, the display would not turn on.
I forced it to shut down by holding the power button, and tried again, but nothing.
Today I switched it on, and again the display did not turn on, but I left it like that, and after about 25 minutes it turned on.
I shut it down from finder, and switched it back on and it worked instantly.
I used Disk Utility to clean up my disk, but I can't run a Disk Utility or Hardware Test from the CD, as the optical drive has not been working well for a few years.
I am guessing that it may be the display needing a while to "warm up" so it is dying, or that it might be a RAM issue that after the first long boot resolves itself.
Any thoughts as to how I should look into this more?
Thanks!!

I used Disk Utility to clean up my disk, but I can't run a Disk Utility or Hardware Test from the CD, as the optical drive has not been working well for a few years.
Never use DVDs myself, definitely not for repairs.
Install OS X or clone the drive and have a 2nd bootable backup.
CCC can check files with checkum for integrity during copy (have to go into advanced options for copy operation).
Always have even a small boot drive handy. Even a flash drive can serve your purposes.
DU checks the directory. You don't clean up, not with DU and not with 3rd party "cleaner" apps.
You can do a Safe Boot, or try, and even run fsck -fy in Single User Mode in a pinch - the Safe Boot though you should try.
I would suspect the GPU. Beyond that, just 2008-itis that affects these 3,1 models more than any other. And yes SMC and NVRAM reset and remove all devices. Even slide out the disk drives and anything else. And press the power on button for 10 seconds while unplugged, to fully reset. NRAM is done from cold boot and the old 4-finger salute of P+R+CMD+OPT keys.

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