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Mac Pro: Kernel panic during HDD boot and DVD boot
I have a 2007 Mac Pro (OS X Tiger 10.4.11) that cannot boot up anymore since a few days. I see the grey screen with the apple logo and the rotating circle. After a minute or so I get a kernel panic. ...
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How to find cause of repeated reboots?
I have been having issues with my mid-2009 Mac Pro ever since I installed Mountain Lion. First it was intermittent kernel panics; I did some research and found that this is an ML bug that's triggered ...
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How do install the OS on a secondary drive in a new Mac Pro?
I've got a Mac Pro coming in today. I ordered it with a typical 1TB HDD in the default configuration from Apple. I purchased a Crucial 512GB SSD that I want to make my primary drive for the OS and the ...
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Why are 2 Mac Pros on a separate subnet directly connected seeing very low transfer rates?
I have two Mac Pros and as one is primarily utilized for storage, I thought connecting the two directly under a different subnet would be a worthwhile endeavor that would directly transfer data ...
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Mac Pro becomes unresponsive - USB keyboard and mouse not working
When I leave my Mac Pro (~2008, OS X 10.6) running for an extended period it drops into a state where the USB keyboard and mouse I have attached do not work. As a result, I cannot bring the computer ...
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computer sleeps, then crashes later
For the past several weeks, this has been happening.
I put the computer to sleep at night, and when I wake the computer up the next morning, my computer has restarted itself.
There's a "Problem ...
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Mac Pro 2008 will not boot and no video out
I have a friend with a mac pro 2008 model - which is failing to boot. Windows 7 was the predominantly used OS on it, and she hardly ever booted into OSX Snow Leopard. She did change the graphics ...
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How to get 3 1900x1200 monitors working on a 2010 Mac Pro
I have a new Mac Pro with a single ATI 5770 card installed. It has two mini-display ports, and one DVI port
I have tried the following configurations:
All 3 DVI connections: This results in one ...
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Why do Apple's latest MacBook Pros cap the RAM limit at 8GB?
According to apple's latest documentation (at the time of writing), the cap on the newest MacBook Pros is 8GB RAM.
The Mac Pros, however, can take up to 32GB RAM.
So, why do the MacBooks have this ...
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Is there a way to monitor which disks are spun down in a Mac Pro?
I have an 2009 Mac Pro full of disks, most of them seldom used (boots on a SSD). Is there a way to see which disks are spun down at a given time (currently running 10.6.8)?
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How can I clean left-over files from upgrades from Tiger to Lion?
I've upgraded my system since 2007 (no clean installs).
Now that I have Lion installed I was wondering if there are any historic files, plists etc. that I can remove as part of a general ...
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Monitor remains grey after Apple logo during boot on Mac Pro
The Mac Pro here (2008 model) started acting up as of yesterday during booting - when I turn it on, I hear the typical sound, the Apple logo appears, it disappears.. and the monitor remains in that ...
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Mac Pro 2007/2008 fresh Snow Leopard install with GT120 graphics card?
I have a Mac Pro from late 2007, early 2008 and I want to perform a clean install but nothing comes up on my monitor. The graphics card is an NVIDIA GT 120 and the hard drive is an Intel SSD. I am ...
