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<blockquote data-quote="tmcgivern" data-source="post: 632538" data-attributes="member: 53007"><p>Hi-</p><p>I am running a Mac Pro with a 3GHz Dual- Core Intel Xeon processor with 4 GB of RAM running Leopard. I have 3 internal 500 GB hard drives that all have about 200 GB free, and two external 500 GB drives connected by firewire that have about 400 GB free each. I run programs such as Final Cut Studio and Adobe CS 3 normally on this computer and I havent had problems until recently. Now the computer is running much slower and it constantly makes a sound like it is accessing a hard drive trying to find something. I believe this started happening after i did the most recent firmware update. I have tried all the normal troubleshooting techniques(rebooting, deleting cache, repair permissions, etc) and nothing will fix it. I have checked system processes and the amount of RAM used seems to be normal (never exceeds 2 GB of RAM in use). And the CPU usage does not go any higher than about 13% when launching programs and when idle is at about 6%. My next step is to reinstall OSX, but before I did that I wanted to see if I was missing something else that i can do...thank you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tmcgivern, post: 632538, member: 53007"] Hi- I am running a Mac Pro with a 3GHz Dual- Core Intel Xeon processor with 4 GB of RAM running Leopard. I have 3 internal 500 GB hard drives that all have about 200 GB free, and two external 500 GB drives connected by firewire that have about 400 GB free each. I run programs such as Final Cut Studio and Adobe CS 3 normally on this computer and I havent had problems until recently. Now the computer is running much slower and it constantly makes a sound like it is accessing a hard drive trying to find something. I believe this started happening after i did the most recent firmware update. I have tried all the normal troubleshooting techniques(rebooting, deleting cache, repair permissions, etc) and nothing will fix it. I have checked system processes and the amount of RAM used seems to be normal (never exceeds 2 GB of RAM in use). And the CPU usage does not go any higher than about 13% when launching programs and when idle is at about 6%. My next step is to reinstall OSX, but before I did that I wanted to see if I was missing something else that i can do...thank you. [/QUOTE]
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