Hello, I joined this forum as I wanted to say a big thank you to you Casperes1996 for saving the day, this afternoon, when I was desperately trying to boot my Mac Pro 1.1 which for the first time was unable to do it. I had not saved quite a bit of work on Logic Pro 9 and I was desperate to say the least.....I was going mad as a lot of other advise was not doing the trick. The loading circle would start, but it would get stuck and stay there, without getting to reboot.....oh man! After some hours and a lot of quick reading, I read your advise, which was simple enough for someone like myself, who is experienced in logic and music, as long as the computers work. When they don’t, I realise that I have very poor knowledge to solve technical problems.....I pressed the shift Key, which I had to google to find out....!!! and switched on my Mac Pro for the 30th time ??!!! and it booted!!! And was able to save the day, although I had spent time I did not have....I managed to save the work. Now, I don’t know what I have done, really, I don’t know what safe mode is and all that. Everything seems to be alright, apart from the Rme Fireface 800 totalMix logo which is in the Dock. It looks different, it is an rme logo but not the one I had before.....
Well, I'm happy you had your problem solved and didn't lose your work. In addition, remember that important work should probably have one or more backups. If your hard drive dies, having it stored on the hard drive doesn't help much either.
That out of the way, again, happy you had your issue solved.
No clue about the RME logo. I'd assume it's unrelated. Not even sure why an interface would need an app in the dock in the first place actually.
During the course of the day, I spoke to a local Mac technician, who said that either the hard drive is gone or the os needs to be reinstalled.
Whilst I'm not going to doubt the technician's skills and/or knowledge, I will say that that is a pretty swooping statement to make without knowing more. Not necessarily wrong, but not necessarily right either. - But if it's a Mac Pro 1.1 and you've never changed the hard drive, it's probably not in good shape after that many rotations.
Now, what should I do? What state is my Mac Pro in? Does it mean I have to do something as this has only temporarily fixed it? Any advice would be very much appreciated!
Well, hard to say with what I know right now. Booting in safe mode is never a solution to anything either by the way. Booting into safe mode is diagnostics; Trying to identify an issue. Safe mode is designed to start the computer without loading many kernel extensions and programs that otherwise start up with the computer, so some components may not work when running in safe mode. It is intended as a way of getting into a system that has faulty kernel extensions preventing boot so you can disable or remove them.
Can you reboot without doing safe mode now or does that fail? If you can, it might not even have been safe mode that got you in, but just luck. Or whatever had gone wrong may have been in a corrupted state, but that state has now been set to something new and thus the issue is gone. I don't know.
Or it could be the failing hard drive like your tech suggested.
My advice is to backup everything essential in case we are looking at faulty hard drive or other hardware, and keep using the system normally for a while to see if it acts up again. If it does, you can pm me and we can go from there. Or you can start a new thread on here and mention me so I am sure to see it. We could continue here, but that feels a bit like cluttering the thread.
Hope this helps
