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Mac Pro chime but no boot display
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<blockquote data-quote="robalexclark" data-source="post: 1756692" data-attributes="member: 392073"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>I've just bought a second hand mac pro in order to compile ios apps. This is my first ever mac. On getting it home I got it to boot a couple of times, *but* I don't ever recall seeing a boot screen or "apple logo" for any kind - it went straight to the login screen. Given that I never turned on a mac before I didn't know what to expect so just logged in using the administrator account and had a bit of a play. The problems started when I did a check for updates (Yosemite) and it installed an update. I think that this was a patch to Yosemite, not an update to El Capitan (?) 20 minutes later it rebooted and I heard the startup chime but no boot display at all.</p><p></p><p>Things I've tried:</p><p></p><p>Turning all the power off and leaving for 5 minutes</p><p>Doing a NVRAM reset using win key+alt+p+r. I do hear the boot chime again when I do this which is encouraging.</p><p>winkey+r to access recovery console</p><p>alt (options key?) on its own</p><p></p><p>The mac seems to have 2 500gb disks but when I looked in system info on the previous boots it appeared as 1gb drive. Is this a raid configuration?</p><p>I did see suggestions on the internet that if the graphics card has been changed this might be why the boot screen would not appear?</p><p>I'm using a vga connection to an old monitor, would this be a problem at all?</p><p></p><p>Any suggestions as where to go from here would be appreciated!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robalexclark, post: 1756692, member: 392073"] Hi, I've just bought a second hand mac pro in order to compile ios apps. This is my first ever mac. On getting it home I got it to boot a couple of times, *but* I don't ever recall seeing a boot screen or "apple logo" for any kind - it went straight to the login screen. Given that I never turned on a mac before I didn't know what to expect so just logged in using the administrator account and had a bit of a play. The problems started when I did a check for updates (Yosemite) and it installed an update. I think that this was a patch to Yosemite, not an update to El Capitan (?) 20 minutes later it rebooted and I heard the startup chime but no boot display at all. Things I've tried: Turning all the power off and leaving for 5 minutes Doing a NVRAM reset using win key+alt+p+r. I do hear the boot chime again when I do this which is encouraging. winkey+r to access recovery console alt (options key?) on its own The mac seems to have 2 500gb disks but when I looked in system info on the previous boots it appeared as 1gb drive. Is this a raid configuration? I did see suggestions on the internet that if the graphics card has been changed this might be why the boot screen would not appear? I'm using a vga connection to an old monitor, would this be a problem at all? Any suggestions as where to go from here would be appreciated! [/QUOTE]
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