The only thing this Mac Pro gets used for it archival work and storage. It's got about 5tb worth of storage in total and I use the machine to archive all my old video production projects and photography work. Its also the only machine I have which can still run and load up my old Aperture Libraries with all my appropriate edits from projects pre 2016.
It hasn't been powered on for quite a number of months and when I came to it the other day it no longer boots. I am fairly certain the logic board has died. The other components PSU, RAM, GPU, and the Hard drives, SSD etc. all work fine in a friends Mac Pro of similar vintage.
All I get now when trying to power it on. Is a click of the fans and then they just run at high speed indefinitely until the machine is switched off by pressing the power button again. No boot up chime or display or anything.
About three years ago I upgraded the firmware from the stock 1,1 to the 2,1 Firmware and also installed two Quad Core Xeons to give a total of eight cores (replacing the stock 2.66Ghz Config). I also removed the pitiful 7300 GT and put in a slightly newer Radeon 4870 GPU. Both of these upgrades worked absolutely fine and I've never never had any issues with the machine at all until last week when it failed to boot.
The replacement logic board I've just bought was only £26 and also came with two 3.0 GHz Processors as well. I will probably replace these and flash the firmware again when I confirm the new board is all working.
So, is there anything I need to know or to be aware of that perhaps is unique to this machine when removing and replacing the logic board? I've had the machine stripped down minimally on maybe two or three other occasions, but I've never needed to do a full on board swap with it.
I've built many Windows based PC's over the years, but with Macs most stuff I've done has always been RAM or hard drive and that's about it. Although, back in the day I did do a Logic board swap on my 17 inch iMac G5 due to bulging capacitors and replaced the board with a 1.8Ghz going from a 1.6Ghz too.
It hasn't been powered on for quite a number of months and when I came to it the other day it no longer boots. I am fairly certain the logic board has died. The other components PSU, RAM, GPU, and the Hard drives, SSD etc. all work fine in a friends Mac Pro of similar vintage.
All I get now when trying to power it on. Is a click of the fans and then they just run at high speed indefinitely until the machine is switched off by pressing the power button again. No boot up chime or display or anything.
About three years ago I upgraded the firmware from the stock 1,1 to the 2,1 Firmware and also installed two Quad Core Xeons to give a total of eight cores (replacing the stock 2.66Ghz Config). I also removed the pitiful 7300 GT and put in a slightly newer Radeon 4870 GPU. Both of these upgrades worked absolutely fine and I've never never had any issues with the machine at all until last week when it failed to boot.
The replacement logic board I've just bought was only £26 and also came with two 3.0 GHz Processors as well. I will probably replace these and flash the firmware again when I confirm the new board is all working.
So, is there anything I need to know or to be aware of that perhaps is unique to this machine when removing and replacing the logic board? I've had the machine stripped down minimally on maybe two or three other occasions, but I've never needed to do a full on board swap with it.
I've built many Windows based PC's over the years, but with Macs most stuff I've done has always been RAM or hard drive and that's about it. Although, back in the day I did do a Logic board swap on my 17 inch iMac G5 due to bulging capacitors and replaced the board with a 1.8Ghz going from a 1.6Ghz too.
