Hi there,
I upgraded to Snow Leopard quite a while ago from Leopard installed on a 2008 (pre Nehalem) Mac Pro. I don't know why its only just dawned on me to ask about this, but since this upgrade I've experienced an extremely unusual problem with my Mac crashing at random, but far from regular intervals.
Heres the specs (in case this helps):
*2 x 2.8GHZ Intel Xeon processor
*12GB DDR2 Ram
*4 x 1TB HDD's (drives 1&2 were the stock Hitachi drives that came with the Mac, the remaining 3&4 are Western Digitals added at a later date)
*2 x Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT's
*2 x Superdrives
The problem itself seems to have some kind of influence on my HDD's/partition's being picked up in finder. I'll elaborate on this shortly, but here's my setup:
Drive 1 - OSX Operating System (HFS)
Drive 2 - Partitioned into two: one half with Windows XP OS (NTFS), and the other set as FAT32 for storage exchange between the two OS's
Drives 3&4 - additional storage (HFS)
I have no idea what causes the problem, however when it does happen my Mac completely crashes and the display is sometimes distorted (pixelated/artefacts on the screen). I don't get a Kernel Panic notification and the only way I can fix this is to restart the computer.
When I restart the computer, everything appears to load fine however I am one partition short in finder (the FAT32 partition on Drive 2). Usually another normal reboot brings the partition back, however this is the only notable thing left as a result of this crash. Again, this only seems to have started upon upgrading to Snow Leopard and worked fine beforehand and because it doesn't happen often, I honestly have no idea what is causing it.
Has anyone else experienced or heard of this problem? As a drastic measure, would a complete reinstall/reformat be a wise move do you think?
Any suggestions or help is appreciated. Many thanks in advance!
Kind regards, Matt
I upgraded to Snow Leopard quite a while ago from Leopard installed on a 2008 (pre Nehalem) Mac Pro. I don't know why its only just dawned on me to ask about this, but since this upgrade I've experienced an extremely unusual problem with my Mac crashing at random, but far from regular intervals.
Heres the specs (in case this helps):
*2 x 2.8GHZ Intel Xeon processor
*12GB DDR2 Ram
*4 x 1TB HDD's (drives 1&2 were the stock Hitachi drives that came with the Mac, the remaining 3&4 are Western Digitals added at a later date)
*2 x Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT's
*2 x Superdrives
The problem itself seems to have some kind of influence on my HDD's/partition's being picked up in finder. I'll elaborate on this shortly, but here's my setup:
Drive 1 - OSX Operating System (HFS)
Drive 2 - Partitioned into two: one half with Windows XP OS (NTFS), and the other set as FAT32 for storage exchange between the two OS's
Drives 3&4 - additional storage (HFS)
I have no idea what causes the problem, however when it does happen my Mac completely crashes and the display is sometimes distorted (pixelated/artefacts on the screen). I don't get a Kernel Panic notification and the only way I can fix this is to restart the computer.
When I restart the computer, everything appears to load fine however I am one partition short in finder (the FAT32 partition on Drive 2). Usually another normal reboot brings the partition back, however this is the only notable thing left as a result of this crash. Again, this only seems to have started upon upgrading to Snow Leopard and worked fine beforehand and because it doesn't happen often, I honestly have no idea what is causing it.
Has anyone else experienced or heard of this problem? As a drastic measure, would a complete reinstall/reformat be a wise move do you think?
Any suggestions or help is appreciated. Many thanks in advance!
Kind regards, Matt