Mac Pro starting on its own.

I have run across a bug I think. After shutting down a Mac Pro the machine has turned itself on during the night. In Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Startup after power failure has been unchecked. There are no applications that have a 'run during the night' theme so I am at a loss as to why the machine starts itself up. Anybody have any clues?

I think you're confusing sleep and shut down. If a machine is asleep (which is what it does if you just shut the lid on a laptop) and you plug in or unplug a USB device, the computer will wake up. Of course, if you're unplugging a USB flash drive in this way, you could damage it.
OTOH, if the machine is shut down, it will not detect removal of a USB device, much less start back up.

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Hello,
Is there a way to have my mac start on its own for just one session and thats it. A one time deal?
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Oops, really for Warrior Ant.
Don't ask me to do it but that might be Applescriptable. I think there is a forum for A'S'.
Oops, really for Warrior Ant.
Don't ask me to do it but that might be Applescriptable. I think there is a forum for A'S'.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=724
There it is.
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I've got a 4 month old Mac mini
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So even if you put the screensaver to never it still starts on its own?
Also you clock runs faster by 4mins?
I smell an OS issue. Partition your drive and install a fresh OS onto it. If it works(no problem there) then restore the partition into 1 drive. Zero out the drive and put a fresh OS in it
**back it up first
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Hello Engender,
I should have followed up with a progress report because I eventually eliminated all the problems I was having with my Mac Pro, now it's behaving like a new computer… beautifully. I did originally take Grant's advice above, changing the setting that I had in the System Preferences > Energy Saver but that only stopped from rebooting on its own when I shut down my Mac properly. Otherwise it continued to restart on its own after freezing or crushing when I switched on the power. I took my machine to the Apple Store and after many tests they couldn't find anything wrong with it. I was very depressed about the whole business.
It was after going onto many of the other Apple related websites that I discovered that it wasn't a faulty power switch or fan, as as I originally thought, but found out that my problem was related to the Graphic Card and possibly I did not have enough ram (I had the original amount of 2 GB). The original card that came with the computer: 512 MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT was over heating and forcing my machine to shut down, I think it was because I had upgraded to OSX Lion which on its own requires at least 2 GB of ram to operate well. I added 4 GB of Ram to the 2GB I had (4GB kit (2GBx2), Apple 240-pin FBDIMM, DDR2 PC2-5300 upgrades for Apple Mac Pro (4-core) 1st Gen. - 2006-2007 Desktop/PC, CT579443 from Crucial.com about $160 for the set) and replaced the Graphic Card with ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB from Apple (around $260), (ATI Radeon HD 5770 Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro (Mid 2010) - Apple Store (U.S.)) This card works very well with my original Mac Pro 2008. I installed it about two weeks ago and no problem with it starting on its own, over heating or freezing. OSX Lion works well and I'm thinking of upgrading to Mountain Lion once I learn that my Mac Pro 1.1 will work with the new hardware I installed.
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499 bucks for everything I had access to in a multi-million dollar studio back then? Sounds like a more or less reasonable deal to me.

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Why does my new Mac Mini restart on its own?
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I went on a 2 week holiday where my mac pro dual core was unplugged. When I got back and started the system it would go to the desktop screen but would then either freeze or I would get red lines across the display. I would have to manually shut it down and restart till it worked normally.
So far I have reset the SMC, the PRAM/Nvram, I have replaced the computer battery, run Norton Anitvirus, run a apple Hardware test (it came back fine) I have run Disk Warrior and Tech Tools Pro 5 and I have done an OS X archive and install and nothing has changed.
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Thank you for the reply.
Can I ask a few questions as I'm slightly new to computers. I didn't quite get the freshly formatted new drive stuff.
In my mac pro I have the mac hd with an additional hd and I have one external drive which is my backup (I need to get another one).
Q1. Unfortunately my backup was made after way the trouble started so a fresh install and migrate won't help will it?
Q2. Because of this I was thinking of doing a fresh install then just transferring over the music and photos and downloading the software again - would this help?
Q3. Because of this, I own final cut studio 2 which was then stolen from me, can I just transfer this from my backup (if so how?)
Q4. How come you recommend uninstalling Norton Anti Virus?
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I have to force quite by holding down the power button.l
Have you tried option-command-powerbutton?
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TD

My WD Passport for mac won't recognise its own password or show up on the desktop

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Allan,
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What model iMac is it please? Hard for me to tell from your specs.
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