My mac pro start up slowly

my mac book pro is almost one year old and version 10.7.4, after i updated this version my mac book start up way slower than before

Hi, and a Warm Welcome to the Power Mac G5 Forum!
Well - not personally familiar with the Mac Pro... but, starting with the "Late 2005" dual-core G5s, the Startup bong was routed through the puny internal speaker, even if external speakers were connected, and no matter what sound preferences were selected.
Think the change was made after one or two heart failures when people forgot to turn the volume down after a heavy session the night before...
With speakers connected to the optical digital audio-out port, the Startup sound goes to the puny internal speaker also - even on this pre-dual-core G5.
Presume the Mac Pro is the same - but you could check by searching, or posting a question in the Mac Pro forum
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1124
Good Luck.

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Powered on my Mac Pro after 12 h off.
Seemed to hang with a blue blank screen after some time.
Powered off and on.
Got this log on the desktop
Mon Mar 31 08:26:37 2008
panic(cpu 2 caller 0x0019D4D4): "simple lock deadlock detection: lock=0x41770b0, cpu=2, owning thread=0x4e247d8"@/SourceCache/xnu /xnu-1228.4.31/osfmk/i386/locks_i3 86.c:317
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x35847d48 : 0x12b0f7 (0x4581f4 0x35847d7c 0x133230 0x0)
0x35847d98 : 0x19d4d4 (0x45fc78 0x41770b0 0x2 0x4e247d8)
0x35847db8 : 0xe8ef21 (0x41770b0 0x0 0x35847e28 0x539680)
0x35847e18 : 0x1aef8b (0x5338a4 0x4072d78 0x35847e48 0x4a623c8)
0x35847e38 : 0x136b15 (0x0 0x5 0x35847eb8 0x4a9b2a0)
0x35847e58 : 0x141711 (0x4a623c8 0x0 0x35847e7c 0x202)
0x35847e78 : 0x1392dd (0x4a9b29c 0x516c94 0x0 0x0)
0x35847ec8 : 0x1394ca (0x4a9b294 0x0 0x0 0x4a9b23c)
0x35847f08 : 0x1972ea (0x35847f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x35847fc8 : 0x19f2b3 (0x48c4840 0x0 0x1a20b5 0x4bea8b8)
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Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffffa18
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BSD process name corresponding to current thread: syslogd
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9C7010
Kernel version:
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Serial ATA Device: WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0, 298.09 GB
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Serial ATA Device: WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0, 298.09 GB
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