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Hi there
Thanks in advance to anyone that takes the time to help me out!
Major problem with my Mac.
Can't boot up at all.
So I have a Mac Pro 1,1 that I have owned from new.
2.6 Xeon, 4 cores total
3 gig ram
Here is a link to see video of what's happening....
Mac failure - YouTube
Basically what happens is the boot up screen is messed up with a kind of sloped grid pattern corruption look. Not the same as the *checkered *look I've *seen elsewhere online for other logic board failures. *Then after that all goes blank to black and that's it.
Safe mode didnt help. Just got a messed up looking grey progress bar, then blue screen of death followed with grid kind of corruption pattern overlayed.
So I'm wondering if my problem is a failed graphics card? Or logic board? Or something else?
The problem came after I installed 2 more hard drives from a PC. Had formatted them for mac and erased no problem. Then the next day one of them had a failure and needed to be reformatted again, which I thought was strange.*
The Mac became its broken self when I went away for a bit. I suspect by guessing the timing it happened when it went to go into sleep mode. I came back and the desktop was all warped with a similar pattern to the startup screen.
Could it be that having 4 hard drives running internal that has caused something to give way that was already a weak part? I tried using my Mac in target disk mode and it worked so the hard drives themselves are accessible and have all the data still on them.
Or could it be that because I was inside the Mac putting the hard drives in that it's disturbed something else?
Also, having read other posts, dust seems to be a major cause of these kinds of things. My Mac was very dusty as i was using it in a garage for 6 months. I vacuumed it out when it was back inside but yeah it could definitely be that there is residual dust all thru the machine.*
Any help appreciated!
If there is any more info that could be helpful in solving this just let me know please..
Thanks*
Lewis.
Thanks in advance to anyone that takes the time to help me out!
Major problem with my Mac.
Can't boot up at all.
So I have a Mac Pro 1,1 that I have owned from new.
2.6 Xeon, 4 cores total
3 gig ram
Here is a link to see video of what's happening....
Mac failure - YouTube
Basically what happens is the boot up screen is messed up with a kind of sloped grid pattern corruption look. Not the same as the *checkered *look I've *seen elsewhere online for other logic board failures. *Then after that all goes blank to black and that's it.
Safe mode didnt help. Just got a messed up looking grey progress bar, then blue screen of death followed with grid kind of corruption pattern overlayed.
So I'm wondering if my problem is a failed graphics card? Or logic board? Or something else?
The problem came after I installed 2 more hard drives from a PC. Had formatted them for mac and erased no problem. Then the next day one of them had a failure and needed to be reformatted again, which I thought was strange.*
The Mac became its broken self when I went away for a bit. I suspect by guessing the timing it happened when it went to go into sleep mode. I came back and the desktop was all warped with a similar pattern to the startup screen.
Could it be that having 4 hard drives running internal that has caused something to give way that was already a weak part? I tried using my Mac in target disk mode and it worked so the hard drives themselves are accessible and have all the data still on them.
Or could it be that because I was inside the Mac putting the hard drives in that it's disturbed something else?
Also, having read other posts, dust seems to be a major cause of these kinds of things. My Mac was very dusty as i was using it in a garage for 6 months. I vacuumed it out when it was back inside but yeah it could definitely be that there is residual dust all thru the machine.*
Any help appreciated!
If there is any more info that could be helpful in solving this just let me know please..
Thanks*
Lewis.