• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCS freezes, shutdowns and other sad stories.

  Posted by Tren Long on March 15, 2008 at 5:08 am

  Hello,
  I hope I am posting this in the right forum. Last spring I purchased a Mac Pro for video editing. Over the summer I upgraded and put in Final Cut Studio 2. Everything was working peachy until early fall. I started getting artifacts on my screens. It started on just one screen, i thought the cable was going out. So i replaced the cable. but then i began to get artifacts on both screens. mostly it is a grey line that goes across just one window. sometimes it will be multiple windows with their own grey lines. If i put a window over an artifacted window the grey line goes away (just under the window). To add to the fun the computer has begun to freeze up a lot. I can not force quit, i can not move the mouse, i can not do anything. It mostly happens when I am working in Motion, FCP or Color. I was trying to watch the creative cow color dvd on one screen and have color open in the other but it kept feezing up on me.
  Whenever it freezes up I restart it by holding down the power button on the tower. After it restarts, the desktop picture does not show up, neither does any of the icons on the desktop and the mouse pointer is pixelated enough to be unrecognizeable. I can use the mouse and restart it then it fires up fine.
  The last thing is randomly (3-5 times a day) both monitors will turn off like they are getting no signal. One of the monitors is a ACD and the little light on the bottom goes off. The light on the computer power button is still on and I can hear fans, I have tried uplugging the monitors and disconnecting them but the only way to get anything to work is to hold the power button down on the tower until the computer fires back up.

  So any ideas?
  It is a Mac Pro, with lepord everything is up to date from software update:
  it has 4 gigs of ram
  a 320 gb hard drive
  a 750 gb media drive
  and 2 500 gb raid 0’ed together
  all the drives are SATA.
  it has a x1900 upgrade kit that I bought from apple.
  all the ram came from crucial technology
  and it has a black magic intensity card.

  Please HELP!!!!!
  Thanks,
  Tren
  and sorry for the bad spelling

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