Mac Pro (early 08) Vista 64 Business OEM Fails to finish installing

I have this problem with the 64-bit Vista on my Mac Pro. I had no trouble installing 64 bit home basic on this same machine. Right now I am in the process of zeroing out all the data on my disk then attempting to reinstall.
When I run the 64 bit installer cd everything goes fine with boot camp until the first restart.. when it starts back up it doesnt finish the installation like with home basic, instead it goes back to the install new vista/enter serial nonsense.
It does create a windows partition full of files. I tried to boot into vista in safe mode. I just get an error that forces me to reboot saying I needed to finish my installation.
My disk is not scratched.. I'm not sure the problem here.

no, wireless is not working. I don't use it so it's not a big deal for me but I would certainly like to know how to fix it. You are right, it's probably a matter of drivers. I also run xp in bootcamp on the same computer and wireless works fine there. I mostly use xp because vista has a lot of glitches (this being one). One thing in favor of vista that I noticed is that it recognizes full 6GB of RAM. XP sees only 2GB which as I understand from posts on this forum is the best it can do.

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Mac Pro Early 2008 will not boot off Win7 Install DVD

Hello,
I am hoping someone out there will have encountered something similar and have some suggestions or ideas, because at this point I can't think of anything else to try.
I have a 2.8 Ghz 8-core Mac Pro (Early 2008) with an Nvidia 8800GT Graphics card. I am running OS 10.6.2, fully patched and updated.
I am attempting to install Windows 7 Ultimate via Boot Camp, and am encountering a rather odd problem.
Once I have launched Boot Camp Assistant it allows me to partition the drive and does so correctly, but when it attempts to reboot off the Windows 7 installation DVD, I encounter a blank grey-white screen similar to that which you normally get on startup but without the Apple logo. This continues for some time (it seems to vary), and then the screen goes dark and the monitor says it is receiving no signal. The fans on the Mac Pro go for a while, then it goes to sleep. I've tried leaving it for a couple hours, no dice.
I've tried both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows install disks. I had the release candidate for Windows 7 installed previously, and it worked perfectly. I have since tried that same install DVD that I used to install the release candidate, and it encounters the exact same issue. Booting up off the Snow Leopard Install DVD works fine.
I tried doing a clean install of Snow Leopard on a spare drive, booting off that, and then starting from square 1 using Boot Camp Assistant to re-partition that same drive. Same problem. No matter what I do or try, my Mac Pro does not want to boot off this install disc. I have yet to try the disc in another machine to see if it works there, and I will as soon as I can, but the fact that the RC disc worked a few months back and now will not seems to rule out the boot discs as defective. I've also tried both my internal optical drives with no change, and no other discs have any issues.
I've already spent an hour and a half talking to Apple Technical Support, and they seemed stumped, so I'm hoping someone will have a notion. If not, I understand and appreciate you taking the time to read this- I have no idea at this point, and I'm generally a pretty knowledgeable user.
- Andrew

Thank you for your reply,
Pull all the drives you have other than the one that you will install Windows 7 to.
I think I will try this next.
Don't put Windows 7 on the same drive as OS X, give it its own.
That was initially what I started out doing.
And you don't even need Boot Camp Assistant.
True, but it's what Apple suggests using.
Might also want to try moving the monitor cable to the other card port.
Hmm, I think I'll try that.
Any other PCI cards or devices attached or installed should also be questioned or disconnected.
I've disconnected everything I could.
Always a good idea to start fresh which I assume you are doing (not trying to upgrade over RC etc).
Yes, the drive was empty to start with.
Honestly it seems like the Mac Pro is generally refusing to boot from any Windows disc. Things I've tried since my initial post:
- Loaded Windows 7 Install disc into my room mate's windows PC... loaded up fine, got to install screen
- Tried his OEM copy of Windows Vista 32-bit, same issue
At this point it seems like maybe some kind of firmware issue or some kind or graphics driver issue, but I'm pretty much grasping at straws at this point. It doesn't seem like it's even getting to the point where hard drives or anything matters.
It does recognize that I have a Windows 7 install disc inserted when I use the boot selector/startup disk chooser.
Thanks for the ideas, I'll try those out and see if any of them help,
-Andrew

Mac Pro Early 2008 + boot camp!!! pliz help from Pros!

Hi guys,
I'm currently using a Mac pro Early 2008 Quad 2.8 with 4 Gb of RAM. I also have 4 HDDs ( 2 of them are 1Tb( Western Digital Black and Green series), 1 is 320Gb-original comes with MP and one 250 Gb Western Digital caviar). All of my HDDs are internal. Recently, my superdrive failed on me. Therefore, i have to replace it using a Samsung OEM DVD optical drive ( TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203D ) which was connected via the extra SATA port on my MP logic board. The optical drive was recognized fine by my MP.
Recently, as I used to work on both platforms ( Mac and PC) for audio mastering, I've decided to install windows 7 using bootcamp so that I can use Wavelab on my Mac for audio mastering. I had my 250Gbs SATA on HDD bay 4 formatted as a single volume for Bootcamp using Bootcamp Assistant. The process went fine until the system restarts for Windows installation. As I used Bootcamp before, i understood that freaking apple EFI wont read SATA (or external) optical drive to install Windows via Bootcamp, therefore I used RefiT as bootloader ( this method always worked for me before on other macs). I also have windows 7 ultimate ligit DVD. However, I experienced this :
- when I restarted my MP without having refit installed , there was always a flashing Apple + a prohibition mark and Windows installation didnt start. I've tried to reboot, hold down OPTION key so that the Windows installation DVD is read by optical drive and then choose it, same thing happened.
- After trying Bootcamp traditional way of installation without success, I install RefiT into my OSX drive ( 320 GBs), have MP restarted twice, then i got Refit boot menu, chose the windows installtion DVD..... now REFIT shows me that having some problem with Legacy boot and can't start the DVD.
Anyone is having the same problem like me with the flashing Apple+ prohibition mark ? Please HELP me!!!! I've used Bootcamp and REFIT for ages on Mac and never had this happened. Bleh!
I'm using Mac OSX 10.6.3. And below is my system profile:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.25f4
Disc Burning:
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203D:
Firmware Revision: SB00
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Generic Drive Support)
Profile Path: None
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

hi all,
Finally I had my Mac pro Early 2008 Quad installed Windows XP SP3 on 2nd internal HDD.
Here's the update for anyone that is having the same problem as I had.
1st : you need to prepare some elements for a smooth installation
- Winclone for mac osx
- Windows XP image that was made from Winclone ( I had to download Winclone 1st, then ran to a friend of mine who had Windows already installed on his Mac using bootcamp and made an image of a version of Windows ( XP/vista/7) on his HDD via Winclone. The image will have file extension like this : xxxx.winclone ( xxxx is the name you choose)
- bootcamp 3.0 drivers for windows, just in case.
2nd : install Winclone on your Mac osx drive.
3rd: open bootcamp Assistant. prepare your drive for a Windows installation then quit it. However, somehow in my Mac Pro, the partition that BCA created wasn't mounted on my Finder, therefore I opened disk Utility and then reformat my BOOTCAMP drive to FAT32 or NTFS ( if you install NTFS-3G, disk utility will allow you).
4th: Open winclone. Now choose Restore. Then choose your Windows image that you made earlier and choose the Partition that you formatted for Windows and wait. It wont take long for the software to copy the image to your partition.
5th: now its time to restart your computer. hold down Option key so that you can choose the Windows Partition to boot.
6th: Windows will boot up and starting to scan for hardware changes again ( as the computer hardware ID and specs changed).
7th: if needed, use bootcamp 3.0 to install drivers for your Mac in windows.
8th: register your copy of Windows
Hope this help.by the way, you also want to force your Mac Pro to recognize all of your SATA HDDs and optical drive by force it to load up drivers in AHCI mode. There are lots of threads over Internet about how to do it. Perhaps InsanelyMac forum ( that's where i find it).
And finally good luck with guys who are having the same problems like me. It took me 3 weeks to find out how to do it.
Sorry admin for any violations ( I only want to help people cos I know its hard with guys who dont know ).
CHEERS!

Mac Pro Early 2008 - random reboots!

Hello!
I have a problem with my Mac Pro Early 2008...
Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 10 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
Software OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
...ther screen will break up into random blocky pattern (like the video card freezes) and the Mac will reboot, kernel panic basically...
...3 months ago i updated the RAM from 6gb to 10gb, but haven't done anything else to the **** thing.
...it's done it five times in the last two days now.
...here is my lates panic report...this happened 10 minutes ago.
...does this report make sense to anyone?
===================================
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 1997046 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          3
Anonymous UUID:                    E39A1BFB-D1E1-D614-7991-B49386694DC1
Wed Jul 24 16:56:33 2013
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff801669e53b): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0x4, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.24.15/osfmk/x86_64/pmap.c:2337
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff813feeb960 : 0xffffff801661d626
0xffffff813feeb9d0 : 0xffffff801669e53b
0xffffff813feeba50 : 0xffffff80166a3a3a
0xffffff813feebae0 : 0xffffff80166a53a6
0xffffff813feebb00 : 0xffffff8016664406
0xffffff813feebbf0 : 0xffffff801666706c
0xffffff813feebce0 : 0xffffff801666b0e0
0xffffff813feebd10 : 0xffffff8016665bdf
0xffffff813feebd40 : 0xffffff8016717554
0xffffff813feebd70 : 0xffffff80167197c3
0xffffff813feebdc0 : 0xffffff801691184f
0xffffff813feebdf0 : 0xffffff80169062e6
0xffffff813feebea0 : 0xffffff80166fa0af
0xffffff813feebed0 : 0xffffff80166f37a7
0xffffff813feebf30 : 0xffffff80166fa029
0xffffff813feebf50 : 0xffffff80169e16aa
0xffffff813feebfb0 : 0xffffff80166ce9c3
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: launchd
Mac OS version:
12E55
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May 1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 896CB1E3-AB79-3DF1-B595-549DFFDF3D36
Kernel slide:     0x0000000016400000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8016600000
System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 14846309182590
last loaded kext at 3120916610267: com.apple.filesystems.smbfs    1.8.4 (addr 0xffffff7f98562000, size 229376)
last unloaded kext at 410364773343: com.apple.driver.StorageLynx    3.1.7 (addr 0xffffff7f9853e000, size 8192)
loaded kexts:
com.Logitech.Control Center.HID Driver    3.6.0
com.metakine.handsoff.driver    2.0.8
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs    1.8.4
com.apple.driver.Oxford_Semi    3.1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor    1.9.5d0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC    1.60
com.apple.filesystems.autofs    3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient    3.5.10
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA    2.3.7fc4
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl    1.1.11
com.apple.iokit.CSRBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport    4.1.4f2
com.apple.GeForce    8.1.2
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet    1.0.0d1
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager    4.1.4f2
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC    1.6.0
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X    7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMCEDriver    1.1.9
com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl    3.4.5
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin    1.0.0
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient    3.5.5
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter    404
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage    2.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet    3.1.1b1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub    5.5.5
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI    4.9.6
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless    1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib    1.0.0d1
com.apple.BootCache    34
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort    2.5.2
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA    2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI    5.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI    5.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM    1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons    1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC    1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET    1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS    1.9
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com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC    1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient    196.0.0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall    4.0.39
com.apple.security.quarantine    2.1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement    196.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice    3.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport    2.1.1
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSBP2    4.2.2
com.apple.kext.triggers    1.0
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com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily    1.8.9fc11
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib    1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController    1.0.11d0
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal    8.1.2
com.apple.NVDAResman    8.1.2
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface    86.0.4
com.apple.iokit.AppleBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport    4.1.4f2
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily    10.0.6
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com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily    2.3.7fc4
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP    2.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl    3.4.5
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport    2.3.7
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily    2.3.7
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC    3.1.4d2
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy    1.0.0
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily    5.3.0d51
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDKeyboard    170.2
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard    170.2
com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver    4.1.4f2
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily    4.1.4f2
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver    5.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub    5.5.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite    5.2.5
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice    3.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily    1.7
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily    1.7.1
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com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport    3.5.0
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com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient    5.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily    4.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily    3.0
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com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily    2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily    5.6.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily    1.8.1
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime    1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily    1.1
com.apple.security.sandbox    220.3
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch    1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet    7
com.apple.driver.DiskImages    345
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily    1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore    28.21
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform    1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily    2.7.3
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily    1.4
com.apple.kec.corecrypto    1.0
System Profile:
Model: MacPro3,1, BootROM MP31.006C.B05, 8 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 10 GB, SMC 1.25f4
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, PCIe, 512 MB
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x0D9B, 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x0D9B, 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x802C, 0x3138484632353637324A4438304545314434
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x802C, 0x3138484632353637324A4438304545314434
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Bluetooth: Version 4.1.4f2 12041, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet 1, Ethernet, en0
PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-1
Serial ATA Device: ST3500630AS P, 500.11 GB
Parallel ATA Device: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0409 (NEC Corporation), 0x005a, 0xfd400000 / 2
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, apple_vendor_id, 0x1006, 0xfd410000 / 4
USB Device: USB Laser Mouse, 0x046d (Logitech Inc.), 0xc069, 0xfd413000 / 6
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, apple_vendor_id, 0x0221, 0xfd412000 / 5
USB Device: EIZO USB HID Monitor, 0x056d (Eizo), 0x0002, 0xfd430000 / 3
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8206, 0x5d200000 / 2
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, 800mbit_speed
FireWire Device: OEM ATA Device 00, G-TECH, 800mbit_speed
==============================

...and this is my report from yesterday when it last happened to me...
==============================
Tue Jul 23 22:05:20 2013
panic(cpu 5 caller 0xffffff80156b8655): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f96aed154, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000000010, CR3: 0x00000000238e8000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
RAX: 0x0000000000000001, RBX: 0xffffff811be18000, RCX: 0xffffff802e224e98, RDX: 0xffffff813df6ba38
RSP: 0xffffff813df6bb60, RBP: 0xffffff813df6bb60, RSI: 0x0000000000000000, RDI: 0x0000000000000000
R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x00000000000003ff, R10: 0xffffffffffffffff, R11: 0x00000000ffffffff
R12: 0xffffff811be18000, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0x0000000000000002, R15: 0x0000000000000000
RFL: 0x0000000000010246, RIP: 0xffffff7f96aed154, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000010, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x5
Backtrace (CPU 5), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff813df6b800 : 0xffffff801561d626
0xffffff813df6b870 : 0xffffff80156b8655
0xffffff813df6ba40 : 0xffffff80156ce17d
0xffffff813df6ba60 : 0xffffff7f96aed154
0xffffff813df6bb60 : 0xffffff7f96ad6844
0xffffff813df6bbb0 : 0xffffff7f96ad679a
0xffffff813df6bbd0 : 0xffffff7f96ab228e
0xffffff813df6bc00 : 0xffffff7f95c913a0
0xffffff813df6bc40 : 0xffffff7f95c9130f
0xffffff813df6bc60 : 0xffffff7f95c9675c
0xffffff813df6bcf0 : 0xffffff7f95c8ee50
0xffffff813df6bd20 : 0xffffff7f95ce01cf
0xffffff813df6bd70 : 0xffffff8015a33efb
0xffffff813df6bdc0 : 0xffffff8015a65297
0xffffff813df6be30 : 0xffffff801569874f
0xffffff813df6be80 : 0xffffff8015620b3d
0xffffff813df6beb0 : 0xffffff8015610448
0xffffff813df6bf00 : 0xffffff801561961b
0xffffff813df6bf70 : 0xffffff80156a6536
0xffffff813df6bfb0 : 0xffffff80156ce9e3
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[990D1A42-DF16-3AB9-ABC1-6A88AC142244]@0 xffffff7f95c85000->0xffffff7f95cbcfff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7f95c46000
         com.apple.NVDAResman(8.1.2)[96AE69DE-8A37-39D0-B2D3-D8446A6AA670]@0xffffff7f95c dc000->0xffffff7f95f81fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7f95c46000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[6C8CFC18-75F0-3DEF-86C7-CEB2C1FD6BB1]@0xff ffff7f95cc8000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[990D1A42-DF16-3AB9-ABC1-6A88AC142244]@0 xffffff7f95c85000
         com.apple.GeForce(8.1.2)[7EC545A4-4B57-32F1-8DC3-C31023AFBDCB]@0xffffff7f96aae0 00->0xffffff7f96b7bfff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.1.2)[96AE69DE-8A37-39D0-B2D3-D8446A6AA670]@0xffffff7f95c dc000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[6C8CFC18-75F0-3DEF-86C7-CEB2C1FD6BB1]@0xff ffff7f95cc8000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7f95c46000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[990D1A42-DF16-3AB9-ABC1-6A88AC142244]@0 xffffff7f95c85000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
12E55
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May 1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 896CB1E3-AB79-3DF1-B595-549DFFDF3D36
Kernel slide:     0x0000000015400000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8015600000
System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 43990035275
last loaded kext at 33162859687: com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC    1.60 (addr 0xffffff7f96d60000, size 32768)
loaded kexts:
com.Logitech.Control Center.HID Driver    3.6.0
com.metakine.handsoff.driver    2.0.8
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC    1.60
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager    4.1.4f2
com.apple.driver.AppleTyMCEDriver    1.0.2d2
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver    2.3.7fc4
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA    2.3.7fc4
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient    3.5.10
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl    1.1.11
com.apple.filesystems.autofs    3.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet    1.0.0d1
com.apple.GeForce    8.1.2
com.apple.iokit.CSRBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport    4.1.4f2
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X    7.0.0
com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl    3.4.5
com.apple.nvidia.NVDAStartup    8.1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleMCEDriver    1.1.9
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC    1.6.0
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin    1.0.0
com.apple.driver.CSRHIDTransitionDriver    4.1.4f2
com.apple.driver.AppleFireWireStorage    3.1.7
com.apple.driver.initioFWBridge    3.1.7
com.apple.driver.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolSansPhysicalUnit    3.1.7
com.apple.driver.LSI_FW_500    3.1.7
com.apple.driver.Oxford_Semi    3.1.7
com.apple.driver.StorageLynx    3.1.7
com.apple.driver.PioneerSuperDrive    3.1.7
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient    3.5.5
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter    404
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com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless    1.0.0d1
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Can't install montain lion, mavericks or yosemite on my mac pro early 2008 8core

I tried installing mountain lion mavericks and yosemite on my mac pro early 2008 I upgraded the video card to see if that was the problems and still the same the problem is that after installing even during install the mouse moves super slow and the keyboard won't work at all so I can't entern
any information this is with a clean install and even if I update lion it does the same everything works fine on lion 10.7.5 problems there does any one know what could be the issue here? I'm only running one monitor and its the 30 inch cinema display here are the specst of my machine excuse my grammar and spelling it was never my favorite subject
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per Processor): 12 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.25f4
Serial Number (system): G881111VXYK
Hardware UUID: 714C0BE4-9A35-5C33-BF74-0F55F7C31B5F
AMD Radeon HD 6870:
Chipset Model: AMD Radeon HD 6870
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x6738
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 007-NETKAS-ORG
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.507
Displays:
Cinema HD:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number: CY03018WXMP
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
ECC: Enabled
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1:
Size: 2 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x014F
Part Number: 0x5453324741504D41435038502D5420202020
Serial Number: 0x00031CFB
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2:
Size: 2 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x014F
Part Number: 0x5453324741504D41435038502D5420202020
Serial Number: 0x00031CFB
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x80AD
Part Number: 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Serial Number: 0x01431026
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x80AD
Part Number: 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5935
Serial Number: 0x57656411
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 3:
Size: Empty
Type: Empty
Speed: Empty
Status: Empty
Manufacturer: Empty
Part Number: Empty
Serial Number: Empty
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 4:
Size: Empty
Type: Empty
Speed: Empty
Status: Empty
Manufacturer: Empty
Part Number: Empty
Serial Number: Empty
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x80AD
Part Number: 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Serial Number: 0x01172313
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x80AD
Part Number: 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Serial Number: 0x01172714
Intel ESB2 AHCI:
Vendor: Intel
Product: ESB2 AHCI
Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported
WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0:
Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model: WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0
Revision: 01.03B01
Serial Number:     WD-WMASY0158891
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk2
Medium Type: Rotational
Bay Name: Bay 1
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
disk2s1:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name: disk2s1
Content: EFI
HD:
Capacity: 499.25 GB (499,248,103,424 bytes)
Available: 484.82 GB (484,820,348,928 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s2
Mount Point: /Volumes/HD
Content: Apple_HFS
Recovery HD:
Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name: disk2s3
Content: Apple_Boot
WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0:
Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model: WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0
Revision: 01.03B01
Serial Number:     WD-WMASY0158891
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk2
Medium Type: Rotational
Bay Name: Bay 1
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
disk2s1:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name: disk2s1
Content: EFI
HD:
Capacity: 499.25 GB (499,248,103,424 bytes)
Available: 484.82 GB (484,820,348,928 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s2
Mount Point: /Volumes/HD
Content: Apple_HFS
Recovery HD:
Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name: disk2s3
Content: Apple_Boot
Intel ESB2 AHCI:
Vendor: Intel
Product: ESB2 AHCI
Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported
HDS725050KLA360:
Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model: HDS725050KLA360
Revision: K2AOAB5A
Serial Number:       KRVN67ZBHBEEAH
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk1
Medium Type: Rotational
Bay Name: Bay 2
Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
UNTITLED 1:
Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,860,992 bytes)
Available: 449.41 GB (449,412,988,928 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: MS-DOS FAT32
BSD Name: disk1s1
Mount Point: /Volumes/UNTITLED 1
Content: DOS_FAT_32
HDS725050KLA360:
Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model: HDS725050KLA360
Revision: K2AOAB5A
Serial Number:       KRVN67ZBHBEEAH
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk1
Medium Type: Rotational
Bay Name: Bay 2
Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
UNTITLED 1:
Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,860,992 bytes)
Available: 449.41 GB (449,412,988,928 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: MS-DOS FAT32
BSD Name: disk1s1
Mount Point: /Volumes/UNTITLED 1
Content: DOS_FAT_32
Intel ESB2 AHCI:
Vendor: Intel
Product: ESB2 AHCI
Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported
HDS725050KLA360:
Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model: HDS725050KLA360
Revision: K2AOAB5A
Serial Number:       KRVN67ZAK1RKSF
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Medium Type: Rotational
Bay Name: Bay 3
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
disk0s1:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s1
Content: EFI
machd:
Capacity: 499.25 GB (499,248,103,424 bytes)
Available: 372.42 GB (372,419,407,872 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /
Content: Apple_HFS
Recovery HD:
Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s3
Content: Apple_Boot
HDS725050KLA360:
Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model: HDS725050KLA360
Revision: K2AOAB5A
Serial Number:       KRVN67ZAK1RKSF
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Medium Type: Rotational
Bay Name: Bay 3
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
disk0s1:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s1
Content: EFI
machd:
Capacity: 499.25 GB (499,248,103,424 bytes)
Available: 372.42 GB (372,419,407,872 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /
Content: Apple_HFS
Recovery HD:
Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s3
Content: Apple_Boot
Intel ESB2 AHCI:
Vendor: Intel
Product: ESB2 AHCI
Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported
Intel ESB2 AHCI:
Vendor: Intel
Product: ESB2 AHCI
Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported
Intel ESB2 AHCI:
Vendor: Intel
Product: ESB2 AHCI
Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported

Try this:
clone your system and repair it with Disk Warrior instead
Or try a clean test system install on another drive
A must: SmcFanControl 2.2 - a mere 400 rpm extra to keep air cooling up
Try to run w/o externals. MyBook included.
Is that a 7200.11 1TB? they had a lot of issues.
Run AHT off your OEM DVD.
2008 had to have EFI and SMC updates to deal with freezes on wake from sleep, and like all models, high inrush current. Hopefully you have a UPS and is 1500VA unit.
When you do hard restart from power button, you almost certainly add more directory errors and to files requiring immediate attention to repair and rebuild the directory; and to scan and repair and delete cache and temp files and folders. A must. Invest in bootable backups SuperDuper along with Disk Warrior (or TechTool Pro 6, maybe Drive Genius 3 but I'd rate that #3).
TimeMachine has its own bad habits, especially with Green drives and some externals.
Try to rule out everything and then add back one at a time.
And it may just be time to replace the 8800, very common, a couple threads this week, and it is 3 yrs old. Might want ATI 5870 or 5770.

Black Screen for Install of Windows 7 on Mac Pro Early 2008

I have a mac pro early 2008 with lion 10.7.4 and boot camp 4.0.3 I think... anyways the problem I have is when I am in boot camp, and configure the HDD partition, then the machine reboots... when it reboots and starts up boot from the install DVD (legit retail copy) I just get a black screen on both monitors. No curser, nothing just a black screen, same as I get when the machine is off! the little white LED lights are on and nothing...
I can hear the DVD spinning up and down a few times then that just stops too...
I have tried resetting the PRAM, pulling the power and watch battery inside for a few minutes, I tried the "fix" that is online for the imac problem with the answerfile and got no different resutls with anything, still the same probelm.
I have the OEM ATI Radeon video card 512MB.
* as a side note, I was never able to download the windows support drivers prior to trying the install... I tried and tried for the last two days so this time I "unchekced" that box and just went for the install...
Any help will be greatly appriciated, thank you :-)
Mike

Hey Hatter, I know this is a little old but I've just picked up this thread and I wonder if you can help. I get the same issue as:
JRASupport
Jun 28, 2012 1:56 PM
I have a mac pro early 2008 with lion 10.7.4 and boot camp 4.0.3 I think... anyways the problem I have is when I am in boot camp, and configure the HDD partition, then the machine reboots... when it reboots and starts up boot from the install DVD (legit retail copy) I just get a black screen on both monitors. No curser, nothing just a black screen, same as I get when the machine is off! the little white LED lights are on and nothing...
I get that dreaded black screen following partioning of my drive on the Windows 7 install on Mavericks on a Macbook Pro late-2008 (MBP5,1) but I'm at a loss to work out where the solution lies in the thread! ;-(
To date I've spent about 5 days going back and forth trying all sorts of combinations, including the obvious:
- removing bootcamp 5 and reverting to 4
- installing the imac drivers
A HUGE thanks if you can offer any help as I'm at the end of my tether...!
Adam
BTW I'm working off USB with 32 bit Windows 7 ISO

Hello. My mac pro early 2008 restarts after sleep mode and it works slower. I tested it with apple hardwear test and it seems to be ok. Thank you.

Hello. My mac pro early 2008 restarts after sleep mode and it works slower. I tested it with apple hardwear test and it seems to be ok. Thank you.

Try this:
clone your system and repair it with Disk Warrior instead
Or try a clean test system install on another drive
A must: SmcFanControl 2.2 - a mere 400 rpm extra to keep air cooling up
Try to run w/o externals. MyBook included.
Is that a 7200.11 1TB? they had a lot of issues.
Run AHT off your OEM DVD.
2008 had to have EFI and SMC updates to deal with freezes on wake from sleep, and like all models, high inrush current. Hopefully you have a UPS and is 1500VA unit.
When you do hard restart from power button, you almost certainly add more directory errors and to files requiring immediate attention to repair and rebuild the directory; and to scan and repair and delete cache and temp files and folders. A must. Invest in bootable backups SuperDuper along with Disk Warrior (or TechTool Pro 6, maybe Drive Genius 3 but I'd rate that #3).
TimeMachine has its own bad habits, especially with Green drives and some externals.
Try to rule out everything and then add back one at a time.
And it may just be time to replace the 8800, very common, a couple threads this week, and it is 3 yrs old. Might want ATI 5870 or 5770.

Mac Pro (early 2008) keeps crashing

I have a Mac Pro (early 2008) that keeps crashing, becoming ever more frequent. It usually happens upon starting up the computer, and once it's all loaded, it crashes, as in all shuts down, and then immediateky restarts itself. This can go on repetitively 10 times or more. Usually, once it's stabilized and remains open, perhaps after 30min-1 hour, it will remain ok for the rest of the day. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this problem. Do I need to update the memory/the graphics card/buy new computer?! Any advice would be very much appreciated. Here are the specs:
Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 6 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM - 2GB 2GB 1GB 1GB (4 slots free)
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB
Software Mac OS X Maverick 10.9.1
Raid Hardrive
And here is the problem report:
Machine-check capabilities 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
Processor 0: machine-check status 0x0000000000000004:
machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0xf200000410000800 valid
MCA error code:            0x0800
Model specific error code: 0x1000
Other information:         0x00000004
Threshold-based status:    Undefined
Status bits:
   Processor context corrupt
   Error enabled
   Uncorrected error
   Error overflow
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): 0xf200001044100e0f valid
MCA error code:            0x0e0f
Model specific error code: 0x4410
Other information:         0x00000010
Threshold-based status:    Undefined
Status bits:
   Processor context corrupt
   Error enabled
   Uncorrected error
   Error overflow
Processor 1: machine-check status 0x0000000000000004:
machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0xf200000410000800 valid
MCA error code:            0x0800
Model specific error code: 0x1000
Other information:         0x00000004
Threshold-based status:    Undefined
Status bits:
   Processor context corrupt
   Error enabled
   Uncorrected error
   Error overflow
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): 0xf200001040100e0f valid
MCA error code:            0x0e0f
Model specific error code: 0x4010
Other information:         0x00000010
Threshold-based status:    Undefined
Status bits:
   Processor context corrupt
   Error enabled
   Uncorrected error
   Error overflow
Processor 2: 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
Processor 3: 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): 0xb200000080200e0f valid
MCA error code:            0x0e0f
Model specific error code: 0x8020
Other information:         0x00000000
Threshold-based status:    Undefined
Status bits:
   Processor context corrupt
   Error enabled
   Uncorrected error
Processor 4: no machine-check status reported
Processor 5: no machine-check status reported
Processor 6: no machine-check status reported
Processor 7: no machine-check status reported
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff800f8dca29): "Machine Check at 0xffffff800f8e274e, registers:\n" "CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0xffffff80c69a6000, CR3: 0x0000000011faf000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660\n" "RAX: 0xffffff80bb0bf000, RBX: 0x0000000000000022, RCX: 0x000000005ba860d3, RDX: 0x0000000000000000\n" "RSP: 0xffffff80c1193d00, RBP: 0xffffff80c1193ce0, RSI: 0x0000000000000002, RDI: 0x0000000000000220\n" "R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x000000000000000b, R10: 0xffffff80c1193e20, R11: 0xffffff800fe89ce8\n" "R12: 0x0000000000000003, R13: 0x7fffffffffffffff, R14: 0x0000000000000001, R15: 0xffffff7f91368c98\n" "RFL: 0x0000000000010002, RIP: 0xffffff800f8e274e, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000000\n" "Error code: 0x0000000000000000\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2422.1.72/osfmk/i386/trap_native.c:1 68
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80c112de80 : 0xffffff800f822f69
0xffffff80c112df00 : 0xffffff800f8dca29
0xffffff80c112e060 : 0xffffff800f8f3eaf
0xffffff80c1193ce0 : 0xffffff800f8e24f4
0xffffff80c1193d00 : 0xffffff7f9134ab93
0xffffff80c1193d30 : 0xffffff7f9134ac47
0xffffff80c1193d70 : 0xffffff7f91344544
0xffffff80c1193e70 : 0xffffff7f91343b89
0xffffff80c1193f30 : 0xffffff800f8dda5c
0xffffff80c1193f50 : 0xffffff800f83757a
0xffffff80c1193f90 : 0xffffff800f8378c8
0xffffff80c1193fb0 : 0xffffff800f8d6aa7
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement(216.0)[A6EE4D7B-228E-3A3C-95BA-10 ED6F331236]@0xffffff7f91341000->0xffffff7f9136bfff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
Not yet set
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 1D9369E3-D0A5-31B6-8D16-BFFBBB390393
Kernel slide:     0x000000000f600000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800f800000
System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 2767142887
last loaded kext at 1266803966: com.apple.driver.CSRHIDTransitionDriver          4.2.0f6 (addr 0xffffff7f9088c000, size 16384)
loaded kexts:
com.Logitech.Control Center.HID Driver          3.3.0
com.apple.driver.CSRHIDTransitionDriver          4.2.0f6
com.apple.driver.PioneerSuperDrive          3.3.5
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient          3.6.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRAID          4.0.6
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter          404
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver          3.0.1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless          1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib          1.0.0d1
com.apple.BootCache          35
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage          2.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub          650.4.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet          3.1.3b1
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort          2.9.5
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA          2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224          700.36.24
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI          4.9.9
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI          650.4.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI          650.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons          2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET          1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC          2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS          2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC          2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC          1.7
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com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall          153
com.apple.security.quarantine          3
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement          216.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDKeyboard          170.15
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard          170.15
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver          650.4.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub          650.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite          650.4.0
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Model: MacPro3,1, BootROM MP31.006C.B05, 8 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 6 GB, SMC 1.25f4
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, ATI Radeon HD 2600, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x0198, 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x0198, 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x0D9B, 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x0D9B, 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x88), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.16)
Bluetooth: Version 4.2.0f6 12982, 3 services, 22 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en2
PCI Card: ATI Radeon HD 2600, Display Controller, Slot-1
Serial ATA Device: SAMSUNG HD154UI, 1.5 TB
Serial ATA Device: ST3500320NS, 500.11 GB
Serial ATA Device: ST2000DM001-9YN164, 2 TB
Serial ATA Device: SAMSUNG HD154UI, 1.5 TB
Parallel ATA Device: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D
USB Device: Keyboard Hub
USB Device: Apple Keyboard
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: CTE-650
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, Up to 800 Mb/sec
Thunderbolt Bus:

AHT by now is only on the OEM DVD and is not fool-proof or definitive or much else. Just a way to rule out some obvious failures.
a new set of 2 x 2GB FBDIMM $25 might be worth for testing.
replacing the ATI 2600XT or get Apple to, they still will it seems like.
Was it a clean install of Mavericks? did you import your old apps and profile data? might be worth a look at redoing.
Some airport and wifi/BT cards can be suspect.
Whatever is happening, all those crashes are going to mangle the directory of the boot drive even more. Reason in spades to have a clean system, image it for restore, and so you have a system just for testing.
3.1's in their 4 yrs have had more issues like this than any other model.

Mac Pro (Early 2008), Tiger Boot

Is my Mac Pro (Early 2008) able to boot from Tiger normally? I 've tried many times but it seems that Tiger has not the necessary drivers for my ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro! Boots, but there is no communication with my graphics card. Is there any way to make it work?
I' ve tried to install Tiger from the DVDs of my MacBook Pro, MacBook and from the DVDs of a friend's previous generation Mac Pro, but not from a Retail Tiger DVD... Do you think that this is my problem?

The only hack is to find a system with 2600M it sounds like.
Or get X1900 that works in 10.4.11 and 10.5.x
Cloned system and then reapply the combo update would do if you do have an Intel Tiger system.
I've been using Vista x64 since late '06, before it was RTM forward, and the horror stories of trying to get it to run on some motherboards, BIOS, etc - I have more respect for what people are willing to go through, how different it is on Mac Pro, and the way OS X is tighter controlled to hardware... but it does make for problems.
People held off buying Mac Pro until CS3. And now some are considering buying ref'd units just to run Tiger or wait 3-6 months for things to catch up.
Game developers love 8-cores, cuts down time to compile, test and develop, and will pay dividends down the road in games that unless the power, but most, a lot, of applications really have trouble using more than 4-cores, it is a technical challenge and requires new compilers and tools.
ATI and Apple aren't likely to build any new drivers for Tiger

Graphics card Mac Pro (Early 2008) What is supported

I desperatly need a new Graphics Card for my Early 2008 Mac Pro.
Bellow are the listed and supported graphics cards from apple site.
None of the cards listed for early 2008 is possible (Very hard) to get here in Norway.
I've read some treads here saying that ATI Radeon HD 5870 will work on Early 2008 Mac Pro.
- Can someone please verify that this will work?
- On the Note for early 2009 The radeon HD 5870 card requires Mac OS X v10.6.4 or later and it requires the use of both auxiliary power connections?
Both auxiliary power connections. Do Early 2008 Mac Pro have this possibility?
Graphics cards for Mac Pro (Early 2008)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (part number 630-9191 or 630-9897)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
ATI Radeon HD 4870, offered as an upgrade kit
Note: The Radeon HD 4870 card requires Mac OS X v10.5.7 or later for use with the Mac Pro (Early 2008).
Graphics cards for Mac Pro (Early 2009)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
ATI Radeon HD 4870
ATI Radeon HD 5870, offered as an upgrade kit
Note: The radeon HD 5870 card requires Mac OS X v10.6.4 or later and it requires the use of both auxiliary power connections.

Robban1978,
I have 27 Apple Mac Pro's (between work/office, home, and clients), and have four Apple Mac Pro's (just at home) and I have purchased the Diamond Radeon HD 7970 graphics cards (7970PE53GHZ) for each of the 27 computers and the graphics cards do work great in all of my Apple Mac Pro computers (2008, 2010, and two 2012 Apple Mac Pro).
The only problem is that I have to boot directly into Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 to use the graphics cards because Diamond/Radeon/AMD have not released graphics drivers for the Radeon 7970 for OS X 10.8.x Mountain Lion (as of yet?)
See here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20289120
See here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20289931
See here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4391012
Hopefully AMD/Radeon/Diamond will release updated graphics drivers for OS X 10.8.x Mountain Lion, and I believe the Diamond Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition graphics card is probably the best graphics card out on the market (based on it's price/performance), the only problem/issue is there are no OS X 10.8.x Mountain Lion drivers for the Radeon HD 7970 series graphics cards yet.
Hopefully AMD/Radeon/Diamond will work on developing and releasing OS X 10.8.x Mountain Lion drivers.

MAC PRO (Early 2008) RAID CARD ISSUE - SYSTEM FREEZEHello (hopefully someone can shed some light on my issue) I own as above a MAC PRO (Early 2008) this has a RAID card installed along with two 15k.7 cheetah hdd (320gb) and a spare drive, (which i m

Hello (hopefully someone can shed some light on my issue)
I own as above a MAC PRO (Early 2008) this has a RAID card installed along with two 15k.7 cheetah hdd (320gb) and a spare drive, (which i made a regular drive)
a while ago i had to replace the RAID card battery, so i did this, over a year later the same thing happened again, but as previous just left it and the system seemed fine for ages, until last night i was working in PHOTOSHOP and everything just froze and the screen kind of appeared GREEN, could not do a single thing. So restarted the mac, this time grey screen for ages and a message appeared, (macs version of blue screen) (see attached).
I restarted the machine and this time a flashing question mark folder!
could not do a thing.
so i found my copy of snow leopard and got the computer to run this and at least launch the DISK UTILITY and (Interestingly in the drop down menu RAID UTILITY was also in the menu) but it did not matter which utility i used the (RAID or DISK) neither could see any of drives, just the dvd drive.
so looked around on you tube and various forums and discovered if i take out the RAID CARD and re-plug the main lead from the RAID card back in to the LOGIC BOARD I would be reverting the MAC to a normal regular non-RAID computer.
After performing this HARDWARE task and inserting all three HDD, and running the DISK utility from the drop down menu via the SNOW LEOPARD disc.
(interestingly since the RAID card had been removed the RAID UTILITY from the drop down menu no longer appeared). running disk utility I can now only see the regular (spare) hdd and DVD Drive, but the two RAID HDD , again, still do not show up DISK UTILITY?
O.K. so i could chuck out the RAID card (AND RAID HDD) and just go with a regular set-up, and run a back restore from Time Machine on a NEW hdd purchased.
but what is wrong with the RAID, is the card at fault or are both HDD used for the RAID knackered? can i perform any tests, to see whats what?
thanks for your help in advanced.

hello people, the issue was in fact the GRAPHICS card nothing to do with the HDD or RAID system ( although this did cause issues with the RAID system it basically lost its way) below is my replay to another similar problem some one else had!
working in photoshop and then everything stopped working and the lot froze! only option was to force shutdown (via button).
and try to restart, hoping all was fine, this was not the case :-(
I had the added issue of the RAID card system, that i have, this was confused to say the lease and would not behave or work, causing the start up to hang.
so i thought the HDD must be bust and the root cause. ( but soon learnt it was not the cause )
...bought a new HDD removed the RAID card and replugged the cable from RAID card into LOGIC board, ( making the computer act like any normal non-RAID system). I managed to install the OSX, using the snow leopard disk way. once the mac was running, i started to notice the screen would flicker and started to see 'artefacts'. so i started to reveal my symptoms to the web and forums and soon discovered that my graphics card could be the issue all along?.
(nvidia geforce 8800gt 2x dvi).
I read up on that a fix, could be either A. reply the thermal paste, as the card could be over heating or B. stick the card in the oven trick.
Tried option A. first and nothing still issues, so last night took the plunge carried out option B. and ta da it worked! i even managed to run
from my new HDD my lasted install OS X, absolutely fine. I then thought, maybe i could repair my RAID so replugged all the HARDWARD back in and
carried out a disk repair and disk permissions on drives( took a small amount of time), via the SNOW LEOPARD disc - (Disk utilities) and this worked and now have my system working as it was just over 6 days ago.
what was the cost to get this? bought a new hdd so 40.00gbp and thermal paste and cleaner kit ( your still need to do this ) search video card trick on you tube.
and renew thermal paste, approx 15.00gbp, technically i don't need the new HDD, but it was all part of the trial and error way i went. ( i do have extra storage as a result!)"

How can Install Final Cut Studio in my Mac Pro Early 2009 ??

I have Final Cut Studio 7 NOT installed yet and Mac Pro Early 2009 with OSX 10.9.5. I have Final Cut Pro X Version 10.1.4 installed. Can I installed Final Cut Studio here together with FCPX ?? Maybe not. What is the best way to install FCP Studio??
Do I need to make a partition? How? If so, what is the best OSX Version for FCP Studio ?? 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 ??
Thanks for any help I can get
Alberto Marban

Here is the Best Practice Guidelines from Apple:
Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, Compressor 4: Installation best practices - Apple Support
MtD

Mac Pro (Early 2008) shuts down unexpectedly

I have a recurring problem with my Mac Pro (Early 2008). I put the computer to sleep; then, when I tap a few keys on the keyboard to wake it up, I hear the start-up sound and it boots up as if it were shut down.
This is particularly strange, because I do not have to use the "power" button on the tower to turn it on. When I tap the keys on the keyboard, as if to wake it from sleep, it makes the start-up sound and boots. I am guessing that somehow it is shutting off when I first try to wake it from sleep, and then must re-boot. But this is odd behavior that I've never seen from any Mac, and I've been using them for almost 20 years.
Any ideas? I'm going to call Apple Support but I always dread those long wait times and often fruitless conversations. I did not migrate information from my previous system; I took the time to manually migrate my files and reinstalled all apps from DVD specifically to avoid problems like this. Very frustrating.

I've noticed the same problem for one day with my new MP 2.8 dualquad, got a reboot after every sleep.
This solved the issue for me:
• Reset the PRAM (Boot the machine and hold ALTCOMMAND+PR for 3 startup gongs)
• Reset the SMC -> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304123-en
Good luck

Mac Pro Early 2008 crash after gear on boot

Hi. I have a Mac Pro (Early 2008), with Mavericks installed. A couple of days ago, it crashed hard (in Portal, as it happens) and then wouldn't boot. When it was crashing it showed full green in various (dark? or random?) areas of the screen, and then random vertical lines of coloured noise. The cursor went jerky, and then stopped moving at all. Having decided this was a more serious problem than a simple steam error, I forced the machine to shut down with the case button, and then turned it back on again, but it wouldn't come up, and hasn't (with exceptions, see below) since.
The behaviour is:
Boot chime, Apple, Apple-with-spinning-gear, a sensible (it seems) amount of spinning gear, then the gear stops and I get some flashing on my screen (like, a complete red screen, or orange screen – colours vary – displayed for less than one refresh, so I see a brief flash of colour with tearing). Occasionally instead of flashing I get an unexpected reboot: once when this happened I also got the kernel's (multiple language) "Your computer restarted because of a problem" screen.
Safe Mode has the same problem (I get a progress bar, when the progress bar completes everything stops and "screen flashing" happens).
EFI boot volume selector works fine, but when I continue to boot, either from my main partition or the Recovery partition, I get the same problem.
Verbose mode works until the point where the graphical user interface should come back, which gives me a white screen and nothing (except screen flashing). I do get a certain amount of "kSMCBadArgumentError" before that point, but see below.
Single User Mode works as it should, fsck finds no errors, all my data appears to be on my hard drive as expected, but on typing "exit" to continue boot I end up in the same position as Verbose Mode. Trying kextload to load all my extensions gives the kSMCBadArgumentError lines, but no other problems (until I try to boot). I have already tried using SUM to remove all the launch agents/daemons/extensions from /Library/ (leaving only the ones in /System/Library/). This worked (I modified the disk as I intended) but didn't help me boot.
I did get the recovery partition to boot once (seemingly randomly), Disk Utility found no errors. The full Apple Hardware Test doesn't seem to be an option from the recovery partition? (I've moved house a few times in the last 6 years, and I don't know where my physical AHT disk is any more. I do have a friend who would probably be able to burn one if Apple provides the disk image as a download.) I have had a full successful boot once too (maybe on the restart after using the recovery partition?) which let me use my administrator user perfectly (I used it for about 5 minutes?), but then after logging out and while trying to log in as my "standard" user I got full green noise as before, and the machine locked up again.
I've rotated my RAM (I have 2x1GB sticks and 2x2GB, as well as my usual 6GB config I've tried each of the pairs in "two-stick" configuration). No difference, except on one boot I got error lights (full on) on one riser, I assume that was because I hadn't seated it properly during rotation, because I took it out and put it back in again and I've not had the lights before or since.
I've also tried swapping in an older system drive, but that made no difference. (The old drive may have been a little flaky itself, but single-user mode booting reliably suggests, at least to me, that my normal drives aren't the problem?)
Without wishing to privilege a hypothesis, could it be the graphics card? I have the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT, I believe (it looks exactly like the pictures of that card online, anyway) – installed by Apple at build time. I tried taking it out and putting it back in again, in case it had become poorly seated, but it seemed firmly in place – for example, the PCIe retainer clip was fully engaged before I removed the card – and reseating it didn't make any difference. I don't have a second card to test with, unfortunately. I wouldn't mind getting a new card to keep the machine running, of course, but I'd like to make sure that it's going to solve my problem before buying it!
Thanks for any help you can give!
Edited to correct OS field, which didn't work. I really do mean Mavericks.

RE: Mac Pro Replacement Graphics cards
1) Apple brand cards,
2) "sold in the Apple store" cards, and
3) "Mac Edition" cards ...
... show all the screens, including Boot up screens, Safe Mode, Installer, Recovery, debug screens, and Alt/Option boot screens. At this writing, these choices include:
1) Apple brand cards:
• Apple-firmware 5770, about US$250** works near full speed in every model Mac Pro, Drivers in 10.6.5
• Apple-firmware 5870, about US$450
2) "sold in the Apple store" cards
• NVIDIA Quadro 4000, about US$1200
• NVIDIA Quadro 5000, about US$2500
3) "Mac Edition" cards -- REQUIRE 10.8.3 or later:
• SAPPHIRE HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 MAC Edition, about US$480** Vendor recommends Mac Pro 4,1
• EVGA GTX 680 Mac Edition, about US$600
The cards above require no more than the provided two 6-pin aux power connectors provided in the Mac Pro through 2012 model. Aux cables may not be provided for third-party cards, but are readily available.
If you are Meet ALL of these:
• running 10.8.3 or later AND
• don't care about "no boot screens" etc AND
• can re-wire or otherwise "work out" the power cabling, THEN:
You can use many more cards, even most "PC-only cards"

Mac Pro (early 2008) keyboard stops working

My Mac Pro (early 2008) has the Apple USB extended keyboard go no ops after the computer has been on for a while. This has been happening for quite a while and began shortly after I installed 10.6. It seemed to disappear for a while after 10.6.6 showed up but has returned since 10.6.8 has arrived. It seems to happen only when the computer goes to sleep but it does not happen every time. But it does happen most times. It appears that all USB ports on the back of my Apple monitor become unusable when this happens.
Anyone have any ideas? This has the feel of the sleep issue this model had with an early OS a few years ago.
MacPro3,1, 10.6.8, 32 GB RAM, dual 32 GHz quad-core Xeon chips, 4 bays populated, 1 TB, 2 TB, 2 TB, 2 TB

Scott..
Try a Safe Mode boot...
Startup your Mac in Safe Mode
A Safe Mode boot takes a longer than a normal boot so be patient.
Once you are in Safe Mode, click Restart from the Apple () menu.
Then try the keyboard.
A Safe Mode deletes some system caches that may help, especially after an update.

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