Could be heat, I guess, though that's never been a problem before, and it has its own A/C. Maybe something's blocking the vent that I haven't noticed. I'll poke around. Often happens when invoking a GPU or render-intensive app.
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> On Jan 27, 2016, at 3:33 PM, Mark Spano cutandcover@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Could be heat. Check your fans, check your internal temps (if you can monitor that). Any Mac Pro that I've had just drop out has usually been a cooling issue and can be sorted by getting better heat dissipation.
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> A good sign that this is the thing is that if you press the system hard (compressing video, multi-core stuff) for a decent period of time, it will crash the same way. That was the thing that clued me in to what was going on with my systems. Working fine, set something up to crunch, walk away, come back to an on system with black screens and unresponsive.
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> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Greg Huson Greg@SecretHQ.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> So, my MacPro tower is HARD crashing regularly lately. I was pretty certain it was a software issue (conflicting software both using either RAM or GPU) but it seems to be less predictable than that.
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> Anyone else seen this behavior in the past? Bad clock battery? Bad power supply? Any ideas?
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