Mac Pro PSU - moving from USA to AUS

Hi - I have two mac pros (and cinema displays) and I am looking to see if I can change out the PSU (power supplies) from the US 110 to the AUS 220(?) standard - replacing the parts instead of worrying about converters and fried electronics?
Is there a reasonable way to handle this ?
Thanks,
Ric

It looks like all you need is new power cords.
http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html
http://www.apple.com/displays/specs.html

Similar Messages

I had a mac pro system..from last 2 days the keyboard is not working properly..if i typed a key but it displayed 2 or 3 keys..what is the problem? is keyboard gone..?

i had a mac pro system..from last 2 days the keyboard is not working properly..if i typed a key but it displayed 2 or 3 keys..what is the problem? is keyboard gone..?

Hey ynareshbabu,
Thanks for the question. I understand you are having issues with your keyboard. The following article provides some great troubleshooting steps:
One or more keys on the keyboard do not respond
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1381
You may want to refer to the "Some keys don't work as expected" section.
Thanks,
Matt M.

Upgrade Mac Pro 1.1 from 10.5 to 10.6 issues

I'm trying to upgrade my Mac Pro 1.1 from 10.5.8 to 10.6
I have an original mac OS 10.6 disc bought online. It fails to load saying disc not readable.
machine specs are:

Mac Pro
Mac Pro (Late 2013)
MacPro6,1
MP61.0116.B04 (EFI 2.0)
2.20f18 (SMC 2.0)
Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
MacPro5,1
MP51.007F.B03 (EFI 1.5)
Mac Pro (Early 2009)
MacPro4,1
MP41.0081.B07 (EFI 1.4)
Mac Pro (Early 2008)
MacPro3,1
MP31.006C.B05 (EFI 1.3)
Mac Pro (8-core)
MacPro2,1
MP21.007F.B06 (EFI 1.2)
1.15f3 (SMC 1.1)
Mac Pro (Original)
MacPro1,1
MP11.005C.B08 (EFI 1.2)
1.7f10 (SMC 1.1)
Above are the versions you should have. I think the versions are live links to articles that will produce the downloads. From:
EFI and SMC firmware updates for Intel-based Macs - Apple Support

I moved from USA to South Africa and now cannot play my music on my new PC. I cannot remember the password for my USA account so cannot deauthorize that account to allow me to play my music on my South African account. How can I now play the music?

I moved from USA to South Africa and now cannot play my music on my new PC. I cannot remember the password for my USA account so cannot deauthorize that account to allow me to play my music on my South African account. How can I now play the music? When I try to use my secret questions to access my old account I am told I have the wrong answers, including my own birth date!!!

There's a couple of ways to get through to the authorisation controls in the 11.0.x versions.
The control is still in the Store menu, but first (if you're using iTunes versions 11.0.x) you might need to bring up the menu bar to see the Store menu.
If you're using 11.0.x, click on the wee boxy icon up in the top-left corner of your iTunes to see the "Show Menu Bar" control, as per the following screenshot:
Then you'll find the control in the Store menu:
Alternatively, if you don't want to bring up the menu bar, it's still possible to get into the authorise controls via nested menus accessible from the wee boxy icon. Here's a screenshot of where to find them:

My Mac Pro Experience (coming from PowerBook)

Hey All, I recently bought Apple's new power horse, and I thought I'd share my initial experience using it.
A little background
For the last few years I've been using a PowerBook G4 as my primary computer. I was about to buy a PowerMac when Apple made the announcement that they were going Intel, so I decided to put off a new computer purchase until they came out with the Intel-based PowerMac. When they finally came out with the machine a couple weeks ago, at first I was going to wait a month or two, giving time for any first-rev issues to surface. But turns out that's a lot easier said than done--on Saturday, after Flash froze up on me for the 3rd time that day, I ran to the Apple Store to get my Mac Pro.
Usage
I got the standard configuration and have since added a 160gb HDD for Windows from NewEgg and a another gb of memory from Crucial. Looking forward the plan is to go up to 4gb of memory, get ATI's Radeon X1900 XT when the Mac edition comes out, and grab a 500gb backup HDD.
To migrate my data over, I decided not to use the Migration Assistant as I didn't want to move any preferences or system files for apps I've uninstalled, etc.. So instead I just hooked up an ethernet cable between the computers. First I moved my apps, then my email, then my iTunes libraray, then all other files in my Desktop, Documents, Music, Photos, and Sites. I was already using .Mac syncing for my Bookmarks, Calendars, Contacts and Keychains, so that part was easy-- just enabled syncing.
Coming from a PowerBook, this thing is ridiculously fast. All these little things that took several seconds to load on my PowerBook are now instantaneous (loading Dashboard widgets for the first time after boot, for example). I have not noticed a performance hit running non-universal apps under Rosetta, however before I got more memory, the system's memory usage would almost max out when I was using Photoshop, so that extra 1GB definitely makes a difference there. One thing that's exciting about this computer is knowing it's only going to get faster as more applications become universal, Mac OS X Leopard comes out and has better 64-bit support, and as I add more RAM.
It's also very quiet. The new Xeons don't run very hot, and with the aid of a heatsink that spans the entire width of the machine on top of it, the fans are barely audible. The loudest part about it is the hard drive.
Boot Camp installation was just as easy as all the articles say. Windows runs pretty well on it– it lasted a full hour before crashing! I installed a program called MacDrive (www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6) that enables Windows to access Mac-formatted hard drives. One thing that's worth a mention about MacDrive is that you have the option of making those drives read-only, so if I get some crazy worm or virus or whatever, it won't stand a chance corrupting any of my important data on the OS X drive.
But the main reason I installed Windows was for the games. While I was sleeping I had Steam download and install Half-Life 2. This morning I opened it up to check the performance. It's not bad at all–-with a 1680x1050 resolution (native 20" Cinema Display res), the recommended video settings were as follows:
- model detail: high
- texture detail: high
- shader detail: high
- water detail: reflect world (of options: basic reflection, reflect world, reflect all)
- shadow dtail: high
- color correction - disabled
- antialiasing mode: none (of options: none, 2x, 4x, 8x)
- filtering mode: trilinear (of options: bilinear, trilinear, anisotropic 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x)
- wait for vertical sync: disabled
- high dynamic range - full
The high dynamic range capability is particularly exciting to me because my gaming pc crashed every time I tried playing The Lost Coast, Valve's high dynamic range demo level. So, not bad at all.
Annoyances
Big thing here is the lack of the wireless module. Unless I want to span a cable across my room, I need wireless internet. A temporary solution to this is I have my PowerBook sharing its wireless connection with the Mac Pro over ethernet.
Not all Mac applications work on it yet, due to the x86 64-bit architecture. So far the programs I have tried to run that won't include Parallels (basically a VirtualPC for Intel Macs), Cisco VPN Client, and MySQL Administrator. The iStat Pro widget is also acting up.
On the Windows side, there are several things Apple could improve on. The biggest one here is the Eject key-- it will only open, but not close, the cd tray. If you have two optical drives installed, it will open both of them together (whereas on OS X it opens/closes the top one, and ALT+Eject opens/closes the bottom one).
With the exception of these minor inconveniences (which probably won't even be around a month from now) my experience has been completely positive. The only time I've had any sort of trouble was when I tried accessing a mounted drive that was no longer physically connected, forcing me to relaunch Finder, but this is a well-known issue that has nothing to do with the specific machine.
If you're thinking about getting a Mac Pro, my advice is to go for it.
- Brandon
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

[iIt's good to finally read something positive in these MacPro discussions.
Bear in mind that this is a technical support forum where users get help for their technical issues rather than a "feel good about your purchase" forum.
As for the Mac Pro itself, from what I've seen it's a extremely stable system and relatively problem-free system. You might want to have a look in the MacBook forums for a comparison of the number of recurring issues. Only then will you appreciate how good the Mac Pro is.

Mac Pro - Scrolling/moving windows Really Jerky and delayed....

Not sure what's happeneing here... This is a brand New Machine, with ProTools 8 Installed as the only major program. There are ProTools Cards (HD2) and a BalckMagic Decklink HD Pro.
When ever I open a new windown In Finder, Safari, or any other program, the scrolling function is extremely jerky, delayed, and unusable. Moving a window around on the desktop is the same. Otherwise, computer seems fine. ANy ideas onhow to deal with this? This simply can't be right. Myn Other Mac Pro (2008) works just fine.
Thanks,
Todd A.

Are there updates for BlackMagic or ProTools to be more compatible?
When did you last run Disk Warrior?
Any problem installing and updating software or drivers?
Can you do a clean install or have a backup copy and try?
Last and least desireable, try with just basic hardware and system.
Your 2009 has a later build of OS X that still isn't out publicly. It should and could be used on your old Mac Pro and you could test it there. But your system from the 2008, that won't run properly at all on this system.

Probelm With EArly 2008 8-core Mac Pro on Wake From Sleep

Well, after more than a year of being a flawless machine, I am now starting to have trouble with my 8-core 2.8 GHz Mac Pro purchased in January of 2008. A few days ago I noticed that when I woke the Mac Pro from sleep, the desktop came up momentarily, and then the screen went went black after a second or less. The power light on the front of the Mac Pro was still burning brightly, but I could not do anything but do a power button forced reboot. I did so, and the machine booted up to a blue screen, but would proceed no further. I then did a second power button forced reboot. The Mac Pro then booted up perfectly this time and all was well.
However, I have noticed since then that often when I wake the Mac Pro up from sleep, the desktop comes up and everything looks normal, but I have absolutely no ability to do anything. I can move the cursor on the screen but clicking the mouse on anything (menu items, icons, etc.) does nothing. I cannot do anything but a forced reboot to regain control of the machine.
I have booted from my drive that has the clone of the OS perfectly with no problems. I have used disk utility to check the Mac's main boot drive and all checks out fine. I have repaired permissions. I have reset the SMC, but nothing has helped. This morning when I went to wake up the Mac Pro, the desktop came up, but absolutely nothing was operative. Mouse cursor moved on the screen, but I could not get any menu item or icon to respond when I clicked on it. I did a power button reboot and the machine is working again, but every time I do one of these power button reboots Time Machine takes 15-20 minutes to prepare and do its backup. Clearly something is wrong, but short of never putting my Mac Pro to sleep again I am out of ideas as to what to do next.
For over a year I have been using a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse, but I don't know if this is involved in the wake from sleep problem or not. I should add that this keyboard/mouse combination has never previously given any trouble at all.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions that anyone may have.
Tom

Glad to hear you were already using SuperDuper and (use to) use Disk Warrior.
Can't be rushed. Take a look at how long it takes Micromat and SoftRAID to update their products to get a ballpark idea of time and work to have compatible versions. Or do like others, wait for "SP1" or a year, wait for Adobe and others to be ready before fully supporting.
The best time to upgrade to (Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, and now Leopard) is a year out, even when the product is at its end release-point, not when it is just 1.0.
Minor but things First Aid misses, and can mean all the difference in the world. Major is bad enough that after recovering files you need, you should reformat and restore due to keys out of order, overlapped extents, corrupt journal (there is a tip about turning journaling off and back on to fix some problems).
I would wait for Disk Warrior (4.1.1) before upgrading to Leopard, rather than the other way around.
Alsoft can't work on an update until they have in their hands a stable and released version. And Disk Utility does and has changed during the last 18 months.
Apple is in the habit and you will find that developers are left in the dark during the last stage. Then 10.5.0 had too many bugs and problems. 10.5.2 was stable-ish, and changed the "rules of the game." 10.5.6 has had a few wrinkles of its own.
Apple warns to NOT use older versions of its own Leopard Disk Utility with the latest (10.5.6) when it comes to repairing permissions (see MacFixit).

Mac Pro PSU buzz yet again

Hi
I have this buzz and hiss that is intermittent and annoying coming from the PSU area on my Mac Pro which has been there since I got it.
It is not the HDs or disk drives as it still happens without them in and that also means its not an OS X problem.
I took it in for repair and the Applecare center says they replaced the PSU and it is working fine
First thing I heard when I got it back and turned it on was the buzz!
Is my only option going back again? I just want this fixed!
Thanks!

I've tried putting it in different places and it definitely comes from the PSU where the AC cord goes in. It used to be slighlty annoying, but now its so much louder! The "repair" has made the noise worse!
Maybe I'll get second time lucky? I just don't like to take my Macs to that place... they seem to come back with scratches and dents on metal macs
I'll see if try it at a different house

Mac Pro not booting from CD's using 'C'

All of a sudden I am unable to boot from a CD. Every disk that I try will not boot. The CD drive will try to read for 5 minutes, then crash with that different language please restart your computer crash screen. I've tried DISKWARRIOR and MacOS X Leopard. They will not boot. I've cleaned the disks and reset the PRAM, but still won't work. All external connections are unplugged.
3 months ago, it was working perfectly, I even did a clean install of Leopard. The only thing that was changed in my system, was an upgrade to the NVIDIA GeForce 88GT, but why would using a different video card force a crash during a CD boot?
Otherwise, my MacPro is working perfectly and the disk has no errors. I can read, write, install apps and run movies on the CD ROM drives. but cannot boot

Recently, I bought diskwarrior but it doesn't boot. I tried the Leopard install to test it out. That doesn't work, then I called Alsof and they said it should boot on my current system.
DiskWarrior will not boot on a Mac Pro (Early 2008).
"All Mac models meeting the system requirements for DiskWarrior *except the new Mac Pro and Xserve models introduced on 01/08/2008, the MacBook Air introduced on 01/15/2008, the MacBook/MacBook Pro models introduced on 02/26/2008 and the iMac models introduced on 04/28/2008* can be started from the CD."
<http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/support.html>
If you want to use DiskWarrior, you need to put it on another drive or partition containing OSX 10.5.4
Therefore, all of sudden nothing boots. Like I said, the only change I did was to replace the video card.
That's why the Leopard DVD won't boot. The Leopard DVD that came with the computer doesn't have drivers for the new graphics card. If you still have the old card, install it, install Leopard, update to 10.5.4, then put in the new graphics card.

Early 2008 Mac Pro wakes up from sleep with Mavericks.

Ever since I upgraded to OSX Mavericks on Tuesday, my early 2008 Mac Pro keeps waking up from sleep mode every couple hours. It goes back to sleep again on its own though after a minute, so I'm thinking it's some kind of new automated feature that I'm not aware of. With the Mac Pro being fairly loud when it wakes up from sleep mode, it woke me up three times last night! Is there some kind of option in the system preferences that I'm not aware of that can deactivate this new behavior? I usually only shut down my computer once a week, and keep it in sleep mode when I'm not using it most of the time, but I'm going to have to start shutting it down every night now to keep it from waking me up throughout the night...

Hello MARl0,
You may want to disable the Power Nap functionality, if available, in System Preferences -> Energy Saver.
OS X Mavericks: Change Power Nap settings
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14391
Cheers,
Allen

Do I need to install the drivers on my old Mac Pro disc or from my Snow Leopard disc?

Hi,
I've got a 2008 Mac Pro (dual quad @ 3GHz) w/ 24GB RAM and I've got Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit installed. What do I need to install?
On my newer 2009 iMac (which included Mac OS X 10.6) I just inserted that disc specific to the iMac and installed the drivers, but the disc for my Mac Pro is old (10.5.2) do I need to install the drivers on it or not? Can I just insert my Snow Leopard 10.6 disc to install Boot Camp etc., or won't that include drivers for the Mac Pro? The Mac Pro is running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
Thanks.

Thanks for your reply,
I have both the silver discs specific to my iMac and Mac Pro models that you receive with your Mac, and a general copy of Snow Leopard that you buy from the store.
I used the silver disc that is specific for my iMac to install the drivers, and Boot Camp 3.0 on my iMac. But with the Mac Pro, the software is older and only has Boot Camp 2.0, thus I'm wondering if I can simply use the software on the general copy of Snow Leopard I own, or does the silver disc contain specific drivers for my Mac Pro that I need?
I'm under perhaps the wrong impression that the silver discs that you get with your Mac purchase contain drivers for your specific Mac model which you can't get from the general Snow Leopard disc.
Thanks.

Updates on Mac Pro Prevent Boot from SSD

Hey there everyone,
I recently upgraded my 2010 Mac Pro (Quad Core) to an SSD Drive using the OCZ Petrol Drive and I coudn't be happier. The system is super snappy and works great. That said, I downloaded the latest updates to my system last night and as of today, it wont boot to the SSD. All other boot operations seem fine, but the SSD wont boot. It goes into the progress bar screen you get when a firmware update is running then just shuts itself down.
I tried reseting the PRAM with no luck and also tried a disk repair from the Lion Recovery Partition as well as a Lion DVD I made, but both fail to repair the disk. I am currently recovering from a Time Machine backup and everything seems to be OK so far, but has this happened to anyone else with the latest batch of updates? I will update this post when the Time Machine Backup completes and let you all know the outcome.

Update 2: I did a hard shutdown and rebooted holding down the option key to try and boot from the Lion Recovery partition and perform a disk repair only to find out the Lion Recovery partition was no more. Wow...looks like this is a bigger issue than I thought. Reinstalling Lion from a DVD now. This should be fun...

Trouble dual-booting Mac Pro after moving - Boot Camp

Here's the story: My wife and I just moved a few miles away, and I transported my "late 2005" Mac Pro carefully on the front seat, on its side. Upon arrival, I am having great difficulty booting up.
Generally, I dual boot into either Snow Leopard or Windows XP. Here's what has been happening since the move:
I boot holding down the Option key. At this point, I have mouse movement, but no activity on the screen for about 5 minutes. When my hard drive options finally appear on the screen, (mouse movement is still normal at this point), or I can Left/Right Arrow between the two operating systems... no problem. However, as soon as I either click on the desired icon, or hit the Enter key, the mouse freezes on the screen and stays that way for perhaps 10 minutes or so before Mac OS starts up. Then operation seems normal.
But when I try booting into Windows XP, it spontaneously reboots into the Boot Camp screen... again very, very slowwwwly.
Has this ever happened to you? Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot/resolve this problem?
Thanks in advance for your time and experience.
Eddie

Begin with this:
Mac Pro came out in Aug 2006, so the fact you run Windows, you have later than any Late 2005 (which referred to PowerMac and G5s)
Normally I would travel with the hard drives in boxes, removed.
XP and also Windows 32-bit any version only offers 1.9GB usable RAM.
Depends on where XP is, on the same drive as OS X? or on its own?
Try check the drive is seated tightly.
Run chkdsk
Boot XP CD
Clone Mac OS? so you have an image if needed.
Same goes for XP.
And if you set XP as the default boot OS?

Mac Pro wakes up from sleep, 'wake reason UHC6' / remote wakeup from some d

Out of nowhere, my new Mac Pro started suddenly waking up from sleep. It was fine initially, but started a few days ago seemingly without reason.
The console log states:
4/15/09 8:40:17 PM kernel USB (UHCI):Port 1 on bus 0x5a has remote wakeup from some device
4/16/09 12:31:15 AM kernel Wake reason = UHC6
4/16/09 12:31:15 AM kernel System Wake
When checking system, and USB, I find:
USB Bus:
Host Controller Location: Built In USB
Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBUHCI
PCI Device ID: 0x3a39
PCI Revision ID: 0x0000
PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086
Bus Number: 0x5a
BCM2045B2:
Product ID: 0x4500
Vendor ID: 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.)
Version: 1.00
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Broadcom
Location ID: 0x5a100000
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 0
Bluetooth USB Host Controller:
Product ID: 0x8215
Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.)
Version: 0.47
Serial Number: 0023124CDD1F
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Location ID: 0x5a110000
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 0
Now, from what I can see, the wake event comes from the Bluetooth - but I only have one BT device paired (they Apple wireless keyboard), and I have 'allows BT devices to wake up' DISABLED.
Does anyone have any suggestions or idea what could be causing the wake-ups? This seems to be happening every few hours, but at no specific times...
Thanks,
Dan

Depends.
As you can see, the wake event seems to specifically point to the ONE USB bus that the BT is on - but nothing else. All other USB busses have a different hex address....
Having said that, I have - on the other bus - an RF logitech mouse (I disconnected that - no difference. And, when waking it says 'wake even on the xxx' bus - not the one that 'seems' to wake the system).
Then, a UPS, and finally an Apple 30inch CinemaDisplay.
The strange this is that is was fine the first 2 weeks I had the system. Then, one weekend being gone, I turned it off (but that wasn't the first time) and then on. Since then, the wake-up issue on that 'remote device causing event' happened - though of course I can't be sure they are really connected....
Do you think another device could cause the wake-up - even though the console would wound to BT?
For the record, I have no BT issues (adapter turning of or otherwise) that I am aware of.
Thanks for the help / suggestions!
Dan

Mac Pro Keyboard changing from querty to azerty

Mac Pro Retina 2014 - QUERTY keyboard to AZERTY:
I bought an exterior azerty keyboard but cannot stop the querty one to activate the azerty. Whatever I try in the system preferences. Any help available ? Merci in advance.
META

Macs use "all devices active" with keyboards and mice. You can literally type every other key from alternating keyboards. There is no sensible way to turn them off.
The codes generated by the keys are not letters but key numbers. All you need is to set the correct keyboard translation to replace the default keyboard translation.
System preferences > Languages and text > Input Sources

Mac Pro PSU - moving from USA to AUS

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for