I have an aging mac pro 2008 3,1 that I'm just hoping is going to keep running until whatever new Mac Pro eventually comes gasping over the hill...
But it keeps crashing and there doesn't seem to be much of a pattern. It always happens within a minute or two of first powering up and logging on to the machine, and it always completely turns off and reboots without any warning. Most of the time when the mac reboots it does not give me a system report for some inexplicable crash, it just starts up as normal (sometimes one chime, a bit of fixing, second chime and start, other times just one chime and off we go as normal). Occasionally when it reboots the fans go into overdrive sounding like a jet engine and I need to reboot via the OS to calm it down.
Occasionally my mouse doesn't work at all on reboot which maybe hints it could be a USB driver causing the issue. I've tried the mouse in many different USB ports and none seem to be better or worse than others (including a USB 3 PCI slot) so seems unlikely to be a USB motherboard issue. It frequently happens when I'm using a web browser but that could be firefox or chrome so that may not be relevant.
So I'm left with a slightly poorly mac which randomly reboots and no system report being produced. And since it isnt easy reproduce, removing peripherals hasnt really helped me to isolate whats going wrong. Would anyone have a guide as to where I might find a hint what the problem is using console? I would say this happens about once every four or five times I reboot, so its kinda random but far too repetitive to be really random.
Oh and to be clear when it doesn't have a random reboot in those first couple of minutes, everything works perfectly for hours and hours until I turn it off.
Its a Mac Pro 3,1 running 10.13.2 via dosdude's High Sierra enabler. 2 x 2.8 xeons, 16gb ram, SSD startup disk, Nvidia GTX 680 flashed with EFI Rom, USB 3 PCI installed and wifi/bluetooth card installed. Continuity working
Any illuminating ideas where to look in console would be very gratefully received!
But it keeps crashing and there doesn't seem to be much of a pattern. It always happens within a minute or two of first powering up and logging on to the machine, and it always completely turns off and reboots without any warning. Most of the time when the mac reboots it does not give me a system report for some inexplicable crash, it just starts up as normal (sometimes one chime, a bit of fixing, second chime and start, other times just one chime and off we go as normal). Occasionally when it reboots the fans go into overdrive sounding like a jet engine and I need to reboot via the OS to calm it down.
Occasionally my mouse doesn't work at all on reboot which maybe hints it could be a USB driver causing the issue. I've tried the mouse in many different USB ports and none seem to be better or worse than others (including a USB 3 PCI slot) so seems unlikely to be a USB motherboard issue. It frequently happens when I'm using a web browser but that could be firefox or chrome so that may not be relevant.
So I'm left with a slightly poorly mac which randomly reboots and no system report being produced. And since it isnt easy reproduce, removing peripherals hasnt really helped me to isolate whats going wrong. Would anyone have a guide as to where I might find a hint what the problem is using console? I would say this happens about once every four or five times I reboot, so its kinda random but far too repetitive to be really random.
Oh and to be clear when it doesn't have a random reboot in those first couple of minutes, everything works perfectly for hours and hours until I turn it off.
Its a Mac Pro 3,1 running 10.13.2 via dosdude's High Sierra enabler. 2 x 2.8 xeons, 16gb ram, SSD startup disk, Nvidia GTX 680 flashed with EFI Rom, USB 3 PCI installed and wifi/bluetooth card installed. Continuity working
Any illuminating ideas where to look in console would be very gratefully received!