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Mac Pro (3,1) keeps powering down
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<blockquote data-quote="LEKOVISION" data-source="post: 1800133" data-attributes="member: 327734"><p>THANK YOU for this ifixit link....amazingly helpful!!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p>Thank you for this link too Lisa!!!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p>UPDATE: </p><p></p><p>Well, i tried powering up my 3,1 yesterday, and it powered down twice about 20 seconds into boot up. I then started it up in Safe Mode, and it was on for hours with no problems. I ran EtreCheck and have the results. Not sure if anyone will be able to understand the results for this program? If so, let me know and i can post the pdf.</p><p></p><p> </p><p>Anyways, i'm in the process of pulling out the heat sink and fans, and tomorrow will go buy some Arctic Silver 5 paste and apply it to the heat sink. Hopefully this helps, but if not, then it'll be a Power Supply replacement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LEKOVISION, post: 1800133, member: 327734"] THANK YOU for this ifixit link....amazingly helpful!! [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] Thank you for this link too Lisa!!! [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] UPDATE: Well, i tried powering up my 3,1 yesterday, and it powered down twice about 20 seconds into boot up. I then started it up in Safe Mode, and it was on for hours with no problems. I ran EtreCheck and have the results. Not sure if anyone will be able to understand the results for this program? If so, let me know and i can post the pdf. Anyways, i'm in the process of pulling out the heat sink and fans, and tomorrow will go buy some Arctic Silver 5 paste and apply it to the heat sink. Hopefully this helps, but if not, then it'll be a Power Supply replacement. [/QUOTE]
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