Hi all,
I’ve been having issues for a while with my mac pro early 2008. Here are the specs :
Mac pro early 2008
OSX Mavericks
2x2.8ghz Quad Core Intel Xeon
32 GB
ATI Radeon HD 5770
1.5TB and 2TB Samsung HD
So my computer has been restarting randomly for a year or so now. Sometimes it restarts continuously for 5mns, sometimes just once and sometimes not at all for a week or more. I first brought it to a mac repair guy who diagnosed a fail hard drive so he replaced it with a brand new one. Nothing else was wrong.
It went well for a few weeks but it started all over again. So I resetted the SMC a few times but nothing. I did a memtest on the new rams I bought but it passed.
Then I used a fan controller (smcFancontrol) and it worked well for months! Until summer came, my room got hot and it did it again.
I noticed that it always does it when my room gets warm. But I can hear the fans, I checked inside and they all seem to work.
I’ve checked a lot of forums on internet, people talk about the power supply, others about giving it a good clean. I cleaned it with compressed air cleaner but it does the same.
So I decided to do a hardware test but for some reason I cannot make it worked. Whether I hold D or Option +D, nothing happens, it just starts as usual.. I have a wireless keyboard and some people reckon it’s because I’d need a usb keyboard.
Are there some people with a solution out there? It’s just so frustrating I want to buy a new one but it’s pretty useful for music composing.
Thanks
Nadege
I’ve been having issues for a while with my mac pro early 2008. Here are the specs :
Mac pro early 2008
OSX Mavericks
2x2.8ghz Quad Core Intel Xeon
32 GB
ATI Radeon HD 5770
1.5TB and 2TB Samsung HD
So my computer has been restarting randomly for a year or so now. Sometimes it restarts continuously for 5mns, sometimes just once and sometimes not at all for a week or more. I first brought it to a mac repair guy who diagnosed a fail hard drive so he replaced it with a brand new one. Nothing else was wrong.
It went well for a few weeks but it started all over again. So I resetted the SMC a few times but nothing. I did a memtest on the new rams I bought but it passed.
Then I used a fan controller (smcFancontrol) and it worked well for months! Until summer came, my room got hot and it did it again.
I noticed that it always does it when my room gets warm. But I can hear the fans, I checked inside and they all seem to work.
I’ve checked a lot of forums on internet, people talk about the power supply, others about giving it a good clean. I cleaned it with compressed air cleaner but it does the same.
So I decided to do a hardware test but for some reason I cannot make it worked. Whether I hold D or Option +D, nothing happens, it just starts as usual.. I have a wireless keyboard and some people reckon it’s because I’d need a usb keyboard.
Are there some people with a solution out there? It’s just so frustrating I want to buy a new one but it’s pretty useful for music composing.
Thanks
Nadege
