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Hi all, this is my first post on these forums so have mercy on me and any of my mistakes I might make, please.
So, I recently obtained (for free from a friend) a 2008-model Mac Pro (Model No. A1168) with a decent video card and 2 blank 1TB SATA HDDs. Sounds like a pretty good deal, right? Well there's more to the story. When I plugged it in all the things started up; the HDDs spin up, the fan on the video card starts spinning, the little LEDs on the RAM decks light up. Of course, I didn't expect the system to have OS X on it, so I got a Snow Leopard disc ready and a Lion USB key. So I put the Snow Leopard disc in my external drive (it didn't come with any installed CD/DVD drives.) I pressed down the power button and held down C to boot from a disc. No display on the monitor. Checked and made sure the monitor worked with my laptop and it works perfectly. So what could be wrong with the computer? The video card? No, I tried a different Mac-friendly card and the card started up just fine. But still no output on the screen. Could it be the external disc drive not being recognized? Well, maybe; I tried installing an extra IDE drive in and couldn't get it to start up. So probably not the disc drive.
So what does the Mac Forums community think? What could be wrong with my computer?
So, I recently obtained (for free from a friend) a 2008-model Mac Pro (Model No. A1168) with a decent video card and 2 blank 1TB SATA HDDs. Sounds like a pretty good deal, right? Well there's more to the story. When I plugged it in all the things started up; the HDDs spin up, the fan on the video card starts spinning, the little LEDs on the RAM decks light up. Of course, I didn't expect the system to have OS X on it, so I got a Snow Leopard disc ready and a Lion USB key. So I put the Snow Leopard disc in my external drive (it didn't come with any installed CD/DVD drives.) I pressed down the power button and held down C to boot from a disc. No display on the monitor. Checked and made sure the monitor worked with my laptop and it works perfectly. So what could be wrong with the computer? The video card? No, I tried a different Mac-friendly card and the card started up just fine. But still no output on the screen. Could it be the external disc drive not being recognized? Well, maybe; I tried installing an extra IDE drive in and couldn't get it to start up. So probably not the disc drive.
So what does the Mac Forums community think? What could be wrong with my computer?