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Slightly OT/ strange behavior on a Mac Pro 2.66
My Mac Pro is doing something bizzare, every once in a while both screens go flat blue for a few seconds, apparently random. Also, FCP which is all up to date is spinning the beach ball very often, for around 5-10 seconds, very annoying. We ran Leopard Cache cleaner, tossed the prefs and fixed permissions, no help. OS 10.5.4. 3-750 GIG Barracudas striped RAID 0 in there.
Have a wonderful day.
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What graphics card do you have?
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Hi
In my experience a FCP beach ball is as likely as not to arise from disk activity (or rather lack of) –
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the blue screen is what OS X shows on shut-down when its doing a disk directory status assessment.
So –
I’d be checking out the hard drives first. -
Radeon X 1900 XT, should I check on it’s drivers?
Have a wonderful day.
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I also suspect a disk error as well, but I just wanted to be sure.
There is a firmware update for that card. Perhaps start there.
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We ran Disk Warrior on the drives and used Drive Genius to defrag the Mac’s hard drive, seems to be like new again.
So thanks!
Have a wonderful day.
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