My Mac Pro is dieing.. I need help!

I have a lot of symptoms and not sure what the problem is.
1st thing I notice is TONS of beach balls on simple tasks. Using Mail, sometimes beachballs while typing, even if it's the only program open. Opening small programs takes 10 times as long. Some programs just randomly beach ball for 10 seconds-ish then come back from being unresponsive.
Then a few days ago, my computer would boot up but it was so slow, it took two minutes for finder to open. The dock would not load. Two minutes until after clicking the apple in the top left, that a menu would come down. So I reinstalled the OS and it's running better again.
I still have the random beach ball issue. I looked in my Activity monitor, I notice about 8 - 10 process that list Virtual Memory as 16,777,216.00 TB. (mdworker, fontd, UserEventAgent, ServerScanner, iTunesHelper, AppleSpell.service, pboard, CCacheServer) Real memory listed seems normal.
My mac is 1st gen I think. 16gb of ram 8x 3.0ghz Ati X1900 4x750GB seagates OSX 10.6.4 The problem started in 10.6.3, and persists still after I updated to 10.6.4, so it wasn't caused by the update.
Also notice the only programs with the 16 million terrabyte Virtual memory capacity are 64bit.
Any ideas
Message was edited by: aeroanimator

Apparently I can't spell lol. Yes dying.
Safari froze up and I had my activity monitor sorted by CPU usage, and nothing was above 0.1. It was froze for a good bit, I was also doing a 'verify disk' at the time. Then the computer locked up.. Non-responsive to any commands, so I clicked the power button (just to try sleep). It did nothing.. then 10 seconds later, came alive, and slept. Then I waited. clicked spacebar and it woke up but the videocard must have crashed because the fan went into turbo mode. ( I assume it can't read the temp, so it defaults to 100% fan to be safe). I noticed it passed the verify disk thing in the disk utility before shutting it down to make the noise of the video card go away...
I think cloning the HD is a good idea. I'm going to try that. Although, I don't exactly thing the HD is the problem. I did a full reinstall of the OS over the old one, not on a reformat. Reformatting.. is a last ditch effort.. I really don't want to set EVERYTHING back up again.. that would blow. I mean, that's why I'm on a mac and not a **** PC.
Seagates are just installed normally. I do computer animation so they are just holding frames, artwork, Time Machine, and stuff.
Video card has no visible dust on it.
Ram is just warm to the touch, not hot.

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Vista 64-bit can or does work quite well now on Mac Pro... if you ever get into a jam and just need to. SP1 by end of the year will even have more support for UEFI 2.0 (Apple uses Intel EFI 1.1).

I deleted my macintosh hd permanently mac won't work i need help

i need help

I'm not certain what you mean? Did you, in fact, as Templeton asks, "delete the contents of your hard drive"? You're obviously up and running on some computer - is it your MacBook Pro?
Please explain a bit more expansively...
Clinton

Mac user in Windows instuttion needs help

I am being denied IMAP for my .mac mail by the syst. adm. and firewall provider. I think they are blowing me off but my tech understanding on this matter is lacking in order to defend my case. Please read the email exchange below and provide a counter argument so I can get my mail up and running. The essence of their argument is that to open IMAP would be a major security breech. I feel there is always a solution in these matters but its the resistance to have to do some extra work that is standing in the way:
-todd
Dear Todd,
Please find our PIX administrator answer regarding the IMAP ports.
From: Pascal Abi Nader
To: Mazen Hishi
Cc: Charly Chartouni
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:26 AM
Subject: IMAP Ports
Hi Mazen
Dear Mazen,
Is he saying he will not accomodate me becasue I am on a apple desktop and
not
a school PC going through that mail server? If so, is there a way to
route my
computer through the Mail Server he is willing to open IMAP for?
Hi Todd,
No that's not the case. I'll try to explain it. The computer you are using
has an internal fake ip, which we reroute thru our ISA server. The ISA
server then using a real ip will route the request to the ISP thru the
Firewall and Router.
Same for e-mail the E-mail server using a real ip communicates with the
outside thru the firewall then the router. SMTP and POP3 ports are open on
the tunnel between our mail server and our provider. that tunnel is secure
because we only accept mail coming thru our ISP's ip using pop3 and smtp
ports. all other traffic is denied.
In your case, what has to be done is the following, open access to IMAP from
any external web ip to the internal school network. And that is very
dangerous, because it allows anyone on the net to use that open port to hack
into the school.
Mazen
We can open the IMAP port on the Mail Server only. We cannot open the
IMAP port on a Public internal IP from any Private IP. This will cause
a major security breach.

This is a security issue and the private network policy is one you will most likely have to live with. That being said I don't see this as a "major security breach" since IMAP is a well defined protocol. Since in your post I see they use a "PIX Firewall" which is made by Cisco I can tell you if they want they can safely allow IMAP. These babies can do just about anything when it comes to firewalling. To the point I use one and I have setup SPI or Stateful Packet Inspection. Without getting to geeky on you, you could forward this link and excerpts from the file to the PIX admin. Basically the firewall blocks inbound requests and tracks outbound requests and ONLY lets connections started from the private network to come through the firewall. I'll bet they do this with HTTP so they can do it for IMAP.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/sw/secursw/ps1018/productsimplementation_designguide09186a00800fd670.html
Stateful Packet Inspection
"SPI monitors connections from a secured network to an unsecured network, and anticipates the traffic returning to the secure host from the unsecure network. The mechanism for anticipating and allowing the return traffic changed slightly as Cisco IOS Firewall changed from CBAC to SPI.
Configure the inspection policy for the protocols listed in the network use policy. Every protocol that will be allowed through the firewall must be specifically named. If you wish to allow additional services, add the services to the inspection policy. If you set up Cisco IOS Stateful Inspection and find that one of your network applications that must traverse the firewall stops working, you should consult the product's documentation or knowledgebase and determine if the software vendor offers documentation specific to setting up a Cisco IOS Firewall.
Define the inspection set:
ip inspect name myfw http
ip inspect name myfw https
ip inspect name myfw pop3
ip inspect name myfw esmtp
ip inspect name myfw imap
ip inspect name myfw ssh
ip inspect name myfw dns
ip inspect name myfw ftp
ip inspect name myfw icmp"
If all else fails and they refuse your request to create SPI for the IMAP protocol you can do 2 things to get your .mac mail.
1. Have them setup a local e-mail account on there mail server. They may have already done this for all students. Then follow the link below and set .mac to forward all your mail to your student e-mail account. You can leave these e-mails in the .mac account so when your not at school you can get to them. Then use Mail.app to get your mail from the schools server.
http://help.apple.com/mac2/1/help/mail/pgs/mac25.html
2. Use the .mac webmail from the Apple website. Just login and you can get your mail on any PC or Macs web browser.
http://www.mac.com/WebObjects/Webmail.woa?aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en
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