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- Mac Pro 3.0 gHz 4GB mem ATI x1900 512. MacBook Pro 2.0 gHz 2GB mem ATI x1600 256. G4. G3.
Just got a Mac pro. The problem edition as you can see.
3.0 with 4GB (from apple) ATI X1900 etc.
I have had nothing but problems with this machine yet.
The first I did is I took out the sys drive and replaced it with SE16 WD 500GB drive and added 3 more, since the machine is used for music production.
That same day we noticed that opening some audio files from the web (qt) our firewire interface (presonus) would stutter. So that happend a few times and we blissfully ignored this since we just droped 5 G's on this mac to replace our G5 power mac and G4.
Then today everything went wrong...the machine freezes after I hit sys drive and the finder window opens up, everything goes white and the sys does not respond. All of hd listed are gone. After a relaunch same things happen, you can drag a screen around that will leave 10000 of copies of the window on the screen.
My dock items disappear. Turn into white boxes...etc. Relaunching does not help since with in a minute same things start happening...
If you hit F12 ..the widgets show up half-assed and the screen does not go grey but it stays highlited with widgets on top of it.
So far this has been a nightmare. Third of our plug ins that are supposed to be UB do not load or are not recognized on the machine. Logic Pro works like its a beta version....and instead finishing a project I am trying to fix this machine...
Any idea whats going on???
Im thinking of reinstalling mac osx and starting over but I am not too happy about it.
Ofcourse I would like to fix this instead of having to go with apple care and be with out a machine for weeks since I know I will have to go out and get our G5 back...
What apps are avaiable out there (like mac janitor) for UB that I can run to see can some of this stuff be fixed or diagnosed...
I am zeroing secondery drve out and then I will reinstall everything...please help in the mean time...
3.0 with 4GB (from apple) ATI X1900 etc.
I have had nothing but problems with this machine yet.
The first I did is I took out the sys drive and replaced it with SE16 WD 500GB drive and added 3 more, since the machine is used for music production.
That same day we noticed that opening some audio files from the web (qt) our firewire interface (presonus) would stutter. So that happend a few times and we blissfully ignored this since we just droped 5 G's on this mac to replace our G5 power mac and G4.
Then today everything went wrong...the machine freezes after I hit sys drive and the finder window opens up, everything goes white and the sys does not respond. All of hd listed are gone. After a relaunch same things happen, you can drag a screen around that will leave 10000 of copies of the window on the screen.
My dock items disappear. Turn into white boxes...etc. Relaunching does not help since with in a minute same things start happening...
If you hit F12 ..the widgets show up half-assed and the screen does not go grey but it stays highlited with widgets on top of it.
So far this has been a nightmare. Third of our plug ins that are supposed to be UB do not load or are not recognized on the machine. Logic Pro works like its a beta version....and instead finishing a project I am trying to fix this machine...
Any idea whats going on???
Im thinking of reinstalling mac osx and starting over but I am not too happy about it.
Ofcourse I would like to fix this instead of having to go with apple care and be with out a machine for weeks since I know I will have to go out and get our G5 back...
What apps are avaiable out there (like mac janitor) for UB that I can run to see can some of this stuff be fixed or diagnosed...
I am zeroing secondery drve out and then I will reinstall everything...please help in the mean time...