This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Gurus, please help

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Gurus, please help

maybe, but if it runs for a while in safe mode AND your raid volume is
online and mounted during that, probably not- even if it doesnt mount in
safe (i never tried) the drives are still spun up.

David C. Ballard
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On 2/22/14, 10:06 PM, "Greg Huson" <Greg@SecretHQ.com> wrote:

>Yep- tried a different GPU. I'll try the verbose method... John Moore
>just suggested (off list) pulling the internal RAID out, too - might be a
>dying power supply. Hadn't thought of that.
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>See, you're gurus!
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>gh
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>On Feb 22, 2014, at 6:41 PM, David C. Ballard <dave@lab601.com> wrote:
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>>
>> greg, at this point the only thing i can think looks like you didnt
>>try- bad gpu (have you tried a different gpu?). other than that
>>something is probably wrong with a motherboard component, maybe the
>>apple intel power management system, lots of stuff doesnt get
>>initialized at safe boot like cpu and power management stuff.
>>
>> if a gpu swap doesnt work, find a used one somewhere, definitely not
>>worth your time- you've got much more important things to do!
>>
>> David C. Ballard
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>> President & Creative Director | LAB 601, Inc.
>> LAB 601 Digital Post
>> 404.876.4601
>> www.lab601.com
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>> From: Greg Huson <Greg@SecretHQ.com>
>> Reply-To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
>> Date: Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 7:46 PM
>> To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
>> Subject: [Avid-L2] Mac Gurus, please help
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>>
>> I'm still having the 'lock up' trouble with my MacPro 3,1 - essentially,
>> it runs for about 3 minutes, then rainbow pinwheels in perpetuity.
>>
>> It started doing this about two weeks ago- no known change in software
>> at that time. It does NOT do this in 'safe' mode, which makes me think
>> it's an OS or extension issue - but that doesn't seem right after
>> today's attempts to repair
>>
>> I've tried the following, with no change in outcome (it always stalls in
>> 2-3 minutes of operation when booted not in safe mode):
>> - deleting the most recently added kext files (there was only one from a
>> few weeks ago - everything else is months or older)
>> - creating a new user
>> - re-installing the OS
>> - creating a 'fresh' OS install on a different hard drive - booting from
>> that drive
>> - removing memory in pairs, booting with minimal memory and different
>> configurations
>> - booting from a 'known good' HD from another machine
>> - swapping in a 'known good' graphics card
>> - removing all PCIe cards except gpu (although they all work correctly
>> until the 'stall' happens
>>
>> and anything else I could think of and maybe haven't listed here.
>>
>> What am I missing? What else would cause this? Clock battery? It's a
>> macpro 3,1 that's an assistant's station and if it uses much more of my
>> time to repair, it may just have to be retired. I just don't want to
>> spend the cash to replace it right now!
>>
>> Any clues or suggestions appreciated.
>>
>> gh
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