Updating to Mac Pro - do I still need a soundcard?
I'm updating my old G4 Powermac to a Mac Pro. As a front end I have a Focusrite ISA 428 with the optional ADC which gives 8 digital outputs.
Do I still need my old MOTU 2408 (Motu will sell me a PCI-424x adaptor to fit the Mac Pro) when I can lightpipe straight into the Mac Pro optical ins from the optical out of the Focusrite?
I guess I'm wondering whether I need a soundcard at all?
Not being funny!
But you're post does sound funny!
At first i though you were asking a Question <Updating to Mac Pro - do I still need a soundcard? >
Awaiting to answer, it later reads
<Do I still need my old MOTU 2408 (Motu will sell me a PCI-424x adaptor to fit the Mac Pro) when I can lightpipe straight into the Mac Pro optical ins from the optical out of the Focusrite?>
Then you gave you're answer
Then i realy seems to now conclude, are you talking to yourself, Eg. asking a Question, then Quickly answer ing it.
Cool-Game!
Fr.BlayZay.
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<Edited by Host>Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
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Hi,
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That's great.
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Here's a video that shows what's going on:
mac pro issues july 7 - YouTube
Issue #1
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I must admit I tend to do it this way:-
From Re: messages "An error occurred while activating. Try again later"
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Check you have Read and Write Permissions and that you Own it.
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This is because I have always tried the least amount of changes along the way to solving an issue.
However Eric's way is easier.
8:57 PM Monday; December 1, 2014
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So will everything be deleted as soon I click OK and click Sync? I read somewhere that only movies and music will be deleted. But I want to keep all Settings and Games with their settings.
Hope there is an easy solution for this
Thank you in Advance for any advice!
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Once the Device is asking to be Restored with iTunes... it is too late to save anything...
See Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Once you have Recovered your Device...
Re-Sync your Content or Restore from the most recent Backup...
Restore from Backup > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766 -
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MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
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Found this on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Airport-Extreme-Bcm94321mc-802-11n/dp/B004OHOTJS/ref =sr13?ie=UTF8&qid=1300723614&sr=8-3
Can anyone verify which airport card to use for a 2006 mac pro model?Hi cmotta12,
You might find this thread (Purchasing/Installing Airport Extreme card for Mac Pro 1,1 (2006) of interest:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12830939#12830939
One important thing to note is that the official Apple Airport Card Wireless Upgrade Kits come complete with the two micro screws which are needed to install the card.
These screws are not readily available, so ensure that they are included when you buy your Upgrade Kit.
Regards,
Bill -
Mac Pro (early 2008) still experiencing frequent Kernel Panic freezing ... ugh
My early 2008 Mac Pro (2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 24 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM) is still experiencing frequent Kernel Panic freezing.
Some days I can go the whole day without one, other days I will experience many, some while using the computer, some after waking it up, some after restarting from one.... its a mess.
I thought it might be RAM related. So I ran different tests on all the chips, found nothing, no errors reported after overnight looping tests. I added more RAM (I ordered 4 2Gb chips so I'd have a total of 16Gb, they sent me 4Gb cards, so now I have 24Gb. I have heard its best to have all cards of the same size, so I ran it with just the new 4Gb cards giving it 16Gb, it still crashed.) I tested the new ram alone, in 2 card groups, in different configurations on the RAM boards, nada.
Maybe it's the graphics card? But I get no weird graphics artifacts (which I did used to experience with my old iMac before it died).
The fans seem to run normally, not too fast or too loud. Sometimes after repeated crashes I'll open up the computer and blow it out with compressed air. That does seem to help, but not always. It's not real dusty, though there is a fine layer of dust that seems to be stuck/ coat the boards.
In Activity Monitor, the kernel_task hovers at about 1.22 Gb of RAM.
I can not iron down what the problem stems from. Nothing seems to alleviate the crashing, which has become more and more frequent it seems...
Anyone have any suggestions? I have tried using Hardware Test using the original OS disks. I have tried Memtest in Terminal. All to no avail. Nothing turned up any errors. I am not sure what to do next besides call for an Exorcism.
Please help!They keep happening. In the time it took to select the latest one, copy and paste it here, and then write this, a dozen more were logged... Is that normal??
Process:
hasplmd [1024]
Path:
/usr/libexec/hasplmd
Identifier:
hasplmd
Version:
Code Type:
X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
User ID:
0
Date/Time:
2012-10-20 15:28:56.159 -0700
OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
Report Version: 10
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
VM Regions Near 0:
--> __PAGEZERO
0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [
4K] ---/--- SM=NUL /usr/libexec/hasplmd
__TEXT
0000000000001000-00000000001d2000 [ 1860K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /usr/libexec/hasplmd
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ???
0000000000 0 + 0
1 libsystem_kernel.dylib
0x9a40b9fb mig_get_reply_port + 10
2 libsystem_kernel.dylib
0x9a404c04 task_set_exception_ports + 86
3 ???
0x0048f73a 0 + 4781882
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x0048f63c ecx: 0x00000001 edx: 0x9a40b77e
edi: 0x00000907 esi: 0x00000000 ebp: 0xbffffce8 esp: 0xbffffcdc
ss: 0x00000023 efl: 0x00010286 eip: 0x00000000 cs: 0x0000001b
ds: 0x00000023 es: 0x00000023 fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x0000000f
cr2: 0x00000000
Logical CPU: 6
Binary Images:
0x1000 - 0x1d0fff hasplmd (???) <0315D420-D963-3935-5106-C26DA1355A48> /usr/libexec/hasplmd
0x8fe6d000 - 0x8fe9fe57 dyld (210.2.3) <23516BE4-29BE-350C-91C9-F36E7999F0F1> /usr/lib/dyld
0x90007000 - 0x90019ff7 libdispatch.dylib (228.23) <86EF7D45-2D97-3465-A449-95038AE5DABA> /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib
0x913cb000 - 0x91433ff7 com.apple.framework.IOKit (2.0 - 755.18.10) <9A80E97E-544F-3A45-916D-6DB7ED217E33> /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
0x91786000 - 0x91788fff libdyld.dylib (210.2.3) <05D6FF2A-F09B-309D-95F7-7AF10259C707> /usr/lib/system/libdyld.dylib
0x91932000 - 0x91940ff7 libz.1.dylib (43) <245F1B61-2276-3BBB-9891-99934116D833> /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
0x91a4e000 - 0x91a90ff7 libauto.dylib (185.1) <B2B5B639-6778-352A-828D-FD8B64A3E8B3> /usr/lib/libauto.dylib
0x91ac3000 - 0x91ae0fff libxpc.dylib (140.41) <1BFE3149-C242-3A77-9729-B00DEDC8CCF2> /usr/lib/system/libxpc.dylib
0x91b38000 - 0x91b39fff libquarantine.dylib (52) <D526310F-DC77-37EA-8F5F-83928EFA3262> /usr/lib/system/libquarantine.dylib
0x92cda000 - 0x92e96ffd libicucore.A.dylib (491.11.1) <B19E450A-BAF1-3967-9C95-7F77DC0B4639> /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib
0x92f15000 - 0x92f19ffe libcache.dylib (57) <834FDCA7-FE3B-33CC-A12A-E11E202477EC> /usr/lib/system/libcache.dylib
0x92f1a000 - 0x93102ff3 com.apple.CoreFoundation (6.8 - 744.12) <E939CEA0-493C-3233-9983-5070981BB350> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
0x9342a000 - 0x93436ffe libkxld.dylib (2050.18.24) <48A75AF6-9D5A-3552-948E-30A1682D3664> /usr/lib/system/libkxld.dylib
0x94183000 - 0x9418efff libcommonCrypto.dylib (60026) <A6C6EDB8-7E69-3827-81F3-9A74D0935461> /usr/lib/system/libcommonCrypto.dylib
0x94230000 - 0x9423afff libsystem_notify.dylib (98.5) <7EEE9475-18F8-3099-B0ED-23A3E528ABE0> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_notify.dylib
0x94db5000 - 0x94dbcfff libsystem_dnssd.dylib (379.32.1) <6A505284-2382-3F27-B96F-15FFDACF004E> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_dnssd.dylib
0x94dbd000 - 0x94e1ffff libc++.1.dylib (65.1) <C0CFF9FF-5D52-3EAE-B921-6AE1DA00A135> /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib
0x9510b000 - 0x9510eff7 libcompiler_rt.dylib (30) <CE5DBDB4-0124-3E2B-9105-989DF98DD108> /usr/lib/system/libcompiler_rt.dylib
0x9524c000 - 0x9524cfff libSystem.B.dylib (169.3) <4F99C03B-BBFF-3BF8-8CC2-2DA764447446> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
0x95675000 - 0x95679ff7 libmacho.dylib (829) <5280A013-4F74-3F74-BE0C-7F612C49F1DC> /usr/lib/system/libmacho.dylib
0x9567a000 - 0x9567bffd libunc.dylib (25) <58599CBF-E262-3CEA-AFE1-35560E0177DC> /usr/lib/system/libunc.dylib
0x956e6000 - 0x956e7fff libsystem_sandbox.dylib (220) <4E42390B-25EC-3530-AF01-337E430C16EB> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_sandbox.dylib
0x95745000 - 0x95745fff libsystem_blocks.dylib (59) <3A743C5D-CFA5-37D8-80A8-B6795A9DB04F> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_blocks.dylib
0x95746000 - 0x95747fff libdnsinfo.dylib (453.18) <41C7B8E2-2A81-31DE-BD8B-F0C29E169D4F> /usr/lib/system/libdnsinfo.dylib
0x95e05000 - 0x95e0cfff liblaunch.dylib (442.26.2) <310C99F8-0811-314D-9BB9-D0ED6DFA024B> /usr/lib/system/liblaunch.dylib
0x95e28000 - 0x95e8cff3 libstdc++.6.dylib (56) <F8FA490A-8F3C-3645-ABF5-78926CE9C62C> /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
0x9778f000 - 0x97796ffb libunwind.dylib (35.1) <E1E8D8B3-3C78-3AB1-B398-C180DC6DCF05> /usr/lib/system/libunwind.dylib
0x98944000 - 0x98a51057 libobjc.A.dylib (532.2) <FA455371-7395-3D58-A89B-D1520612D1BC> /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
0x98fa8000 - 0x98fa9fff libremovefile.dylib (23.1) <98622D14-DAAB-3AD8-A5D9-C322BF572A98> /usr/lib/system/libremovefile.dylib
0x9907d000 - 0x9907dfff libkeymgr.dylib (25) <D5E93F7F-9315-3AD6-92C7-941F7B54C490> /usr/lib/system/libkeymgr.dylib
0x9907e000 - 0x990a0fff libc++abi.dylib (24.4) <06479DA4-BC23-34B6-BAFC-A885814261D0> /usr/lib/libc++abi.dylib
0x990a1000 - 0x990edfff libcorecrypto.dylib (106.2) <20EBADBA-D6D6-36F0-AE80-168E9AF13DB6> /usr/lib/system/libcorecrypto.dylib
0x990ee000 - 0x990fcff3 libsystem_network.dylib (77.10) <7FBF5A15-97BA-3721-943E-E77F0C40DBE1> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_network.dylib
0x9912f000 - 0x9915bff7 libsystem_info.dylib (406.17) <AA5611DB-A944-3072-B6BE-ACAB08689547> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_info.dylib
0x996a8000 - 0x996d5ffe libsystem_m.dylib (3022.6) <9975D9C3-3B71-38E3-AA21-C5C5F9D9C431> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_m.dylib
0x99bc8000 - 0x99bc9fff libDiagnosticMessagesClient.dylib (8) <39B3D25A-148A-3936-B800-0D393A00E64F> /usr/lib/libDiagnosticMessagesClient.dylib
0x9a18e000 - 0x9a24bfeb libsystem_c.dylib (825.25) <B1F6916A-F558-38B5-A18C-D9733625FDC9> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_c.dylib
0x9a2d8000 - 0x9a2e0fff libcopyfile.dylib (89) <4963541B-0254-371B-B29A-B6806888949B> /usr/lib/system/libcopyfile.dylib
0x9a2e1000 - 0x9a2f3fff libbsm.0.dylib (32) <DADD385E-FE53-3458-94FB-E316A6345108> /usr/lib/libbsm.0.dylib
0x9a3f9000 - 0x9a413ffc libsystem_kernel.dylib (2050.18.24) <C17D49D0-7961-3B67-B443-C788C6E5AA76> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib
External Modification Summary:
Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by all processes on this machine:
task_for_pid: 303
thread_create: 1
thread_set_state: 0
VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=41.8M resident=27.1M(65%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=14.7M(35%)
Writable regions: Total=10.1M written=16K(0%) resident=52K(1%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=10.0M(99%)
REGION TYPE
VIRTUAL
===========
=======
Memory tag=35
3424K
Stack
64.0M
__DATA
3468K
__DATA/__OBJC
52K
__HASP_SRM_3_50
64K
__IMPORT
8K
__LINKEDIT
31.2M
__PAGEZERO
4K
__TD
4K
__TEXT
10.6M
__UNICODE
544K
mapped file
168.4M
shared memory
12K
===========
=======
TOTAL
281.6M
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