What causes my mac pro to type continuous equal symbols (=)

Every time I try to type something I get running equal symbols (=). Is this a virus and is there a way from preventing this from happening?

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What does the Mac Pro do? and who uses it?

Hey guys, I want to know What does the Mac Pro does and which type of people use it.

To add a slightly less technical perspective, I bought a new Mac Pro because it fits my preferred working style rather than because I need its specific computing power (And also because my 2008 MP crapped out and I got tired of fixing it).
When my old Mac Pro died, I ran out and bought a Macbook Pro Retina and used it as my desktop while waiting for the new cylinder MP. The MBPr was stunning and performed like a champ. However, I was reluctant to use it as a laptop (i.e., travel with it) since it was my sole platform for client work and I didn't want to jeopardize my ability to work/deliver should something nasty happen on the road.
So maybe I'm a bit old fashioned, but I like to have a desktop mac for my primary workstation (I'm a graphic designer and photographer) and a laptop for the road. I use a high-end, wide spectrum monitor for color critical work, so while it's true that an iMac would have the power to run the stuff I need, I prefer to have options with my monitor.
Again, just another perspective that might factor into a purchase decision. How do you like to work and what works best for your situation? It isn't always mandatory to have the fastest and latest (unless, as in my case, it falls into your established criteria/working style).

What is a Mac Pro? Is it a computer?

What is a Mac Pro? Is it a computer?

Better for what user ir apps or needs?
The tower is same basic design, but it can be upgraded and customized to fit different needs and budgets.
Price range?
The top iMac vs stock Mac Pro.
Why didn't you Googke Geekbench? Then Barefeats.com and Anandtech.com
The new 2013, lets call it the 6, 1 - and 10.9 will shred any iMac.
5, 1 6-core 3.33GHz 48GB RAM 4xSSD drives, 4x4TB media storage, GTX 680... us a BEAST and my old slow 2006 model is stronger and still more than enough from Aug 2006 when I bought it. You dont get that out of a iMac.

What is the mac pro reset function key?

what is the mac pro reset function key?

Sorry, but what "reset function key" are you referring to? What is it you wish to reset?

Is this creative suite or leopard causing my mac pro to freeze, quit and not sleep?

I hav recently bought a high end mac pro and leopard and I am lucky if I get 30 minutes before the whole system freezes. Tried re-installing in a different hard drive on the pro - same problem. If I put the computer to sleep, 80% of the time when I return, it has shut down. Actions in CS3 are deleted. Everything is a bit random and I can not work it out. Running disk utility, from the computer and disk produces this:
ACL found but not expected on Applications/Utlities
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" on Applications
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" on Library
Permissions repair complete
All software is up to date. I do have some plug-ins that are supposed to be cool with this system.
Can anyone help or do I have to return this computer?

On 3/9/08 2:16 PM, in article [email protected], "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Permissions repair complete > > All software is up to date. I do have some plug-ins that are supposed to be > cool with this system. > > Can anyone help or do I have to return this computer? Sounds like the logic board is malfunctioning, reading and writing in the wrong places to the HD. Try a Safeboot [hold down shift key] and see if the problem persists. If not, then you have a plugin problem most likely. Also, do this first: boot holding down cmd-S keys. When you drop into Unix, at the prompt, type fsck -fy keep the space between the commands. Let it run and see what happens, but because it happens on both drives, it sounds more like the logic board or wiring in the system is on the blink. If it is new, should be under warranty... Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jefferis Peterson, Pres. Web Design and Marketing http://www.PetersonSales.com

What drive in Mac Pro early 2008 or 2009?

I purchased a Western Digital Black 1Tb SATA hard drive and it did not work in any of my three Mac Pros (two are Early 2008, one is early 2009). It made a strange noise and was never seen by Disk Utility no matter what I did.
There are already three other drives in these machines, some of them are Western Digital drives and they work fine, but they were purchased years ago.
I returned the drive and purchased a Western Digital Red 1Tb drive in replacement. I chose a Red because I will be setting up a RAID system soon but needed it temporarily as storage in the Mac Pro. It didn't work at all in the Mac Pro Early 2008. At first it seemed to work but at restart, the system said the disk was not formatted, although I had formatted it successfully (but it really took a long time) with Disk Utility.
On the Mac Pro Early 2009 formatting was difficult. I tried to make two partitions instead of one and finally managed to format it and even copy some files to it. But Disk Utility couldn't verify it and Disk Warrior said it was having problems because of disk malfunction.
Apparently, I should be able to put a 1Tb disk in these machines, and the SATA 3 drives are supposed to be compatible with the SATA 2 of the Mac Pros. But it doesn't work although we spent hours trying everything and reading everything we could find on the subject.
My question is: are these drives supposed to work in older Mac Pros from 2008 and 2009?
If not, what drive should I purchase for these machines? I need a quiet, fast drive.
Thanks.
Ellen

Yes, I'm aware that SSD is the way to go. I have one (OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD), 480 GB, as my boot disk. It has the system and all my apps, plus my virtual machines for Windows. These are used very little, only to check if things we put on the web are OK in the various Win Browsers. But they need to be fast because otherwise, I'll go nuts.
About using SSD for Photoshop's scratch, I seem to remember reading something saying that it will reduce the drive's life somewhat. I don't know how much or if it matters, or if it's the better choice anyway.
Actually, the reason we still have these old Mac Pros (two for work, one for the server) is that, every year, we hoped to see some major improvement and put off upgrading because we didn't feel the new ones announced year after year would change our life.
We've been using Macs for almost 30 years now. The first was a Mac Plus 512k, in January 1985. (My first computer (in 1981) was a ZX81, with 1k of RAM... I did get a 16 k plug in extension though). We usually upgrade when the specs show a speed improvement of at least 4X, or when the architecture changes radically. All this to say we are now waiting to spend all our Christmas money on some shiny new tubular Mac Pros. We will then have to reconsider our whole setup, and add some external Thunderbolt drives. At that time, I'll be back to discuss the best options. Till then, this will do.
And the reason we tried a Red was because we thought maybe we could use it later on a dedicated machine used only for music over the network. The drive is used just about continuously all day long. Bad idea obviously.

I have a brand new Mac Pro Tower that continually kicks me off the internet and sometimes starts up not connecting to the internet?

My brand new Mac Pro Tower that I spent a small fortune on sometimes boots up and does not connect to the internet when every other computer in my office does and other times it just kicks me straight off. My question is, is there a problem with the wi fi on these machines?

Brand new nMP Mac Pro 6,1 Late 2013.... and it is defective - the older silver tower might be easier to find parts but at least it is not 65 lbs and is something that can be taken in - which I think you really need to do.
When you run etrecheck from www.etresoft.com it can show what is installed, drivers and might help point to something on software side.
Grant is the go-to person here I think among others for networking issues.
Airport Express and signal strength, channel it is trying to use, whether the Network control panel settings are "correct" or need to be changed (even the order, what it is trying to look for and use).
If you move it to another spot or put another computer over in that general vicinity...? behaves the same.
I recall reading where the MacBook Pro model in 2012? and switched to a new chipset and some very long (huge) threads in their forum - which means also there was no real solution given.
No, should not be. And other than network tests would be booting into Apple DiagnosticsTest mode - pulls down from Apple servers.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5781

What causes a macbook pro to suddenly become slow?

I have only had my macbook pro for a year. Well recently it suddenly became very slow to the point where every few seconds the spinning beach ball looking thing came up (loading icon)... and it would stay there for a good 15 seconds then go away for like 5 seconds... what causes this?!?!?! and what can fix it??!?!
HELP!!!!! It also has 350gb left of hard drive space and 2gb of ram... whats the issue

First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Reset the System Management Controller.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
Otherwise, take the steps below when you notice the problem.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
Step 2
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

Mac Pro fans blowing continuously at full speed.

Hi guys, just bought a Mac Pro off someone. 2006 model, 2.0 quad core.
The guy was running two x western digital 500GB drives. But took them out and replaced it with a seagte ST3500413AS 500gb drive (new).
Mac OSX installed fine. But when i boot it up the fans go crazy! and dont stop.
Did a heat montior test and all looked okay, i think it was 30-50 degrees for every component.
Used istat and the figures for the fans were as follows:
Figures show approx:
Power suply 599rpm
Exhaust 1547rpm
CPU fan 499rpm
HD expansion 2865rpm
Now obviously somethings wrong. I took the drive out and pushed it back in to make sure it made good contact, i have swapped bays etc, same problem.
Any ideas guys?

Launch the Activity Monitor application and select the CPU tab. Click the heading of the "% CPU" column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for "% User," "% System," and "% Idle" at the bottom of the window.

HT3964 What if a mac pro spontaneously shuts down and won't restart

Mac pro 2012. Happily working then stops. All attached powered devices like hard drives remain on. Not due to dodgy ac power because it's behind a 2kv ups with constant sine wave output. The ups looks like its barely ticking over.
Reset the pmu according to instructions but it remains dead. Tried other house circuits, new ac adaptor lead etc. it's like a fuse has gone, though I doubt such a thing exists.
Any suggestions?
TIA
Tim

Sudden power-down can be caused by processor overheating, but that generally shuts off the fans and drives all at once.
You may be describing a sudden graphics card failure, possibly due to overheating. Make sure some warm air is still coming out the fan port on the back of the card, if so equipped.
In most parts of the world, you can remove the side door with the Mac Pro 65 lb tower still running, and check whether fans are all running.
CAUTION: In the EU, the European commission has determined that you are too stupid not to put your finger in the fans, and the Mac Pro is so dangerous it cannot be sold in the EU until a new model is released. So this advice is not to be used in Europe.
Also, be certain that any bananas you buy are not too strongly curved -- those are illegal in Europe. Unfortunately, you will be forced to fend for yourself when using refillable Olive Oil bottles in restaurants -- they were unable to develop a consensus to ban them outright for the good of the public. So please, be extremely careful!

What "kind" of Mac Pro do I have

Would anyone mind helping me understand what "kind" of MacPro (early, late or whatever) I have and how all of this may or may not affect how memory is recognized by WinXP through Leopard?
Is there an issue here in terms of the difference and if so, what is it exactly?
Also, will these issues be the same in terms of Windows 7 when it comes out?
Lastly, I was looking at buying a MacBook mostly because I want a small profile computer for office related tasks while on the go, even though I should be buying something that will accommodate more ram if I wanted to run my professional software on it.
Are the same kind of issues involved in what kind of MacBook or MacBookPro I buy?
Much thanks,
Jonathan
P.S. If I can get this information without the kind of low-grade insult and hostility that the guy with five boxes gave me on my earlier posts on this, that would be super.

Open the System Profiler in your Utilities folder. The machine information will include information such as the following:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
The information after Model Identifier will tell you which generation and the model within the generation. 1,1 means first generation, first model; 2,1 would mean second generation, first model. The Early 2009 (newest) model should be 4,1. There have been thus far four generations: Mid 2006, Mid 2007, Early 2008, and Early 2009.
All Intel Macs are similarly identified.
The currently made MacBooks can accommodate at least 6 GBs of RAM, although the Unibody MacBook Pro is supposed to accommodate 8 GBs. However, I don't know that anyone has reported they have successfully installed 8 GBs.
If your work requires FireWire ports then you will need the White MacBook or a MacBook Pro. Unibody MacBooks do not have a FireWire port.
Oh, and I'm the guy you insulted not the other way around. You simply have a problem listening.
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What kind of mac pro specs should I have for video editing?

I am running the media department for Skagit Valley College and am in charge of editing for our online content. I am currently using an imac with FCP6 but am spending way too much time rendering. I am wondering about what kind of specs I should consider for building a mac pro to cut down on some of that time as well as setting up an audio recording studio. Microphones, cables, software, and hardware specs are all issues that puzzle me at the moment as far as what is going to be the best fit for my productions...
please help
-anthony

Virtually any Mac Pro 6-core or up will work well, but obviously the more cores the better. Save the budget by adding your own RAM (I like 2GB per core) and hard drives (3TB Hitachi 7200 RPM drives are a good value) from reputable vendors. Avoid "green" drives that use lower spindle speed to save energy.
Get the fastest available video board (currently the 5870) and consider consider dial third party displays (I'm using a pair of 27" Samsungs, half the price of a single Apple 27) and look into a Matrox MXO2 mini to handle your grading monitor.
Get a copy of Final Cut Studio (2009) ASAP while it's still available and talk to your Apple rep about additional licenses if needed. If you know FCP6 and like it, you need to "bunker" the app and ignore FCP X until it fleshes out.
If you need more help, let me know... I've been on FCP since version 3 and I'm a native Washingtonian. Just don't call me Homie!
Good luck!

What does my Mac Pro's lack of startup Boing mean?

My Mac Pro is equipped with two internal drives, a 600 GB WD VelociRaptor - - which functions as my usual startup drive - - and the WD 640 GB drive that came with the computer. A few weeks ago my computer ceased to make the Boing soud when starting up from the VelociRaptor or when switching from the VelociRaptor to the 640 GB drive. Below are the conditions undewr which the Boing sound occurs and does not occur.
Computer does not make Boing sound when:
1. Starting from the VelociRaptor drive after having been turned off.
2. Restarting from the VelociRaptor when the VelociRaptor was the startup drive.
3. If one restarts after designating the WD 640 GB drive as the startup drive after having first started from the VelociRaptor.
4. When resetting the PRAM it does not sound on the first cycle.
The Computer makes the Boing sound when:
1. Starting from the WD 640 GB drive after having been turned off.
2. Restarting when one has started from the WD 640 GB drives.
3. If one restarts after designating the VelociRaptor as the startup drive after having first started from the 640 GB drive.
4. When resetting the PRAM, it sounds on the second and all subsequent cycles.
Smart Utility reports that both drives are fine.
Permissions are regularly verified and repaired on both drives.
Disk Utility reports no problems with either disk.
The directories on both drives are regularly optimized with DiskWarrior.
The computer passed the long version of the Apple Hardware Test.
The computer performs with no obvious anomalies beyond its lack of Boing.
Although I'm now running under OS 10.7.4, theis problem began when I was still running OS 10.6.8. It began about 6 weeks ago.
I would be most appreciative of any insights that anyone might have.
Thanks!

The chime is generated in software after millions of instructions have been executed and the Power On Self Test has passed. If a source of bootable software can be found, booting is likely.
The last result of the Power-on Self Test is recorded, (as is the last Apple Hardware Test) and can be read out easily until the next Restart:
About this Mac > ( More Info ) > Hardware > Diagnostics
If the last Power On Self Test status is "Passed" and the correct date, do not lose sleep over the lack of chime.

How can I tell what version of mac pro I'm buying?

So I want to buy a quad core Mac Pro used, But the benchmark is hard for me to understand.
It says that mac pro quad 4x 2.66 first gen got about 25 tracks
and the quad 2.66 2009 got almost 60!
How do I tell the difference between the two when buying used?
I want a 2009
Thank You!

Yes, it sounds like 1st gen 2006. MacPro 1,1.
Check Apple support Mac Pro specs.
You'll have 1333MHz fsb / 667MHz FBDIMM

What is best Mac Pro for photoshop for the money?

I need to purchase a mac pro to use for digital retouching and photography. Which machine will i get the best performance for my money, I am on a budget.

The best would be 6-core 3.33GHz 24GB RAM and would hold up best over time.
http://discussions.apple.com/messageview.jspa?messageID=12296219&stqc=true
MHz matter, and so too does RAM.
This article, and then browse how to choose Mac Pro, benchmarks etc on site:
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2010/20100905_HallofFameShame--macpro.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Reviews-MacProWestmere-CoresExplained.html
There are always good buys from Apple Specials, from $2100 and up, just be careful or totally avoid any of the 8-core / dual processor models.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac/mac_pro

What causes my mac pro to type continuous equal symbols (=)

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