The Eternal Cycle of Rebooting and Reincarnation

Hello, I just got my MacPro back and now it works fine. I edit Canon 5d Mark II footage on it, natively, H.264, 1920.
The folks at We Fix Macs had to send my MacPro to Cupertino for the bigwigs at HQ to fix my problem.
The reason I brought it in was that it insisted on engaging in an eternal cycle of rebooting every 3 minutes or so. The machine would power on properly, complete 95% of the booting process EXCEPT for the final display of the clock and other icons on the very top.
Then it would show the beloved BSOD and commence the whole process again, in an eternal cycle of reincarnation and rebooting. Very Zen and Buddhist and all that, but impossible to get any real work done.
I got it back from Apple HQ 10 days later (yesterday) with a note that it was a "software" problem. Totally helpful.
I asked what I could do to prevent its recurrence. They said to close down your programmes properly and make sure all your software is up to date.
DUH. I do all that.
I don't want to pose an "How long is my piece of string?" type question to this forum, but I was wondering if anyone else had experienced such a philosophically profound, but extremely unhelpful (from a pragmatic view of life), problem.
I don't do video games on this computer, just the Creative Suite 5, updated and current and availing myself of the kind souls on this board via the Web. So it's pretty much just the creative suite and Apple Safari that only visits Adobe sites. Pretty much a dedicated video unit.
Thanks,
Matt Dubuque
100 Trees

Matt,
I know nothing about Mac's, except for that little logo on the top of their laptops... but when similar happens with most PC's, there is a "path," to troubleshoot. BSOD's, on a PC, are most often hardware issues, and next comes driver issues, that bork the OS. Harm Millaard has gathered a bunch of utilities for helping PC-users track down many of those hardware issues, and his tools are linked from this ARTICLE. I have zero clue, as to how much of that material would apply to a Mac - probably some, but maybe not that much.
Now, I am unplesantly surprised that you did not get more from having shipped your Mac to the Death Star, er I mean the Mother Ship...
It sounds like they are about as helpful as the Geek Squad with a PC. I would have thought it most helpful to you, had they pointed out the software conflict, and then given you a few thoughts on how to keep those conflicts from happening in the future, other than the generic, "shut things down properly." As you state, that is NOT your problem - something else is. What did they find? What did they change?
Now, when my wife's new auto does not work properly, I take it into the dealership. I do not expect them to give me a 50-page print out of exactly what was wrong (I doubt that I could understand it, and I used to do 90% of my auto maintenance), but I do want them to tell me what NOT to do, so that the problem does not surface again. That would be helpful, and they have been good at instructing me.
Good luck, and at least you got the Mac working, or at least I hope that you did.
Hunt

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