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- Boston, MA, USA
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- Mac Pro 1,1 - 2.66 GHz, 13GB RAM, OS 10.6.6 + MBP 2.4GHz, 4 GB RAM, OS 10.6.6
Hi. I just recently bought a used Mac Pro 1,1 that I hope is not a lemon. It's a 2.66Quad, 6 GB RAM, MAC OS X 10.6.6, stock vid card. The only OS installed on it was Lion when I bought it.
When I got it home, I booted it from my FW drive that has my cloned HD's from my MBP2008 and the Mac Pro booted fine. I restored it's other HD with my cloned disks and it also booted up fine for a few days, although it was taking longer than usual to boot & shutdown.
Now tonight it's started to act funny. My windows on the screen all of a sudden became distorted-like for a second and shortly after that the display flashed a prism of colors that had some white and red and others. I believe I then froze with the grey screen of death. I've tried every which way to boot up with DVDinstall/FW and every reset I can find on the web either keyboard or motherboard and I keep getting the grey screen.
I've taken out all the ram, the video card and popping back in and the same. I've tried with only the apple memory that it came with and no. I forgot to run a hardware test after I got it. I can't get it to do that either. It will boot in Target disk mode. When I boot and hold the option key it does let me choose a start up disk. I always get the grey Apple screen first, but after a min or so it goes to death. However, when I try and boot with a snow leopard dvd (retail) and hold down c, the apple screen comes on for a while, the optical drive is read but eventually stops and the display now turns black... not the grey screen of death. It was dirty inside and I dusted as best I could. I was planning on taking it apart to thoroughly clean the fans and cpu's. Any ideas?
When I got it home, I booted it from my FW drive that has my cloned HD's from my MBP2008 and the Mac Pro booted fine. I restored it's other HD with my cloned disks and it also booted up fine for a few days, although it was taking longer than usual to boot & shutdown.
Now tonight it's started to act funny. My windows on the screen all of a sudden became distorted-like for a second and shortly after that the display flashed a prism of colors that had some white and red and others. I believe I then froze with the grey screen of death. I've tried every which way to boot up with DVDinstall/FW and every reset I can find on the web either keyboard or motherboard and I keep getting the grey screen.
I've taken out all the ram, the video card and popping back in and the same. I've tried with only the apple memory that it came with and no. I forgot to run a hardware test after I got it. I can't get it to do that either. It will boot in Target disk mode. When I boot and hold the option key it does let me choose a start up disk. I always get the grey Apple screen first, but after a min or so it goes to death. However, when I try and boot with a snow leopard dvd (retail) and hold down c, the apple screen comes on for a while, the optical drive is read but eventually stops and the display now turns black... not the grey screen of death. It was dirty inside and I dusted as best I could. I was planning on taking it apart to thoroughly clean the fans and cpu's. Any ideas?