Hi guys!
I'm facing a problem with an Mac Pro 1,1 (2006).
First of all let me give all SW and HW specs:
- The computer itself is a Mac Pro 1,1 but was flashed to be recognized as an 2,1 (2007);
- The installed CPU's are two E5345 @2,33 GHz;
- The GPU is and HD5770 flashed to work as an Apple version.
- Have 8GB RAM (1GB*8);
- Storage 2 SSD's (raid) and 1 HDD to backup;
- Have El Capitan installed (not natively supported).
It's all I can remember now.
I know that is a very old machine in terms of computers age, it's outdated and ultimately one day (maybe now) will stop working for many reasons. To be honest, I have it and still use it because even today it works fine and at this time never got me troubles.
Let me explain whats happening:
- Yesterday I needed to install on another disk an old version of OS X, I have a flash drive with Lion so try to install it.
- Do everything as normal for new installations but for any reason I don't know when installing Lion the computer just restarted, and give me a screen what I think was a kernel panic.
From that moment the disk with El Capitan got many random restarts. Some with kernel panic other was just a "simple" restart.
Tryed to install Lion again, it worked fine but I check that it just recognize 6GB of RAM instead of the installed 8GB. Reboot to El Capitan and still recognize 6GB of RAM.
- I opened it and checked that one of RAM riser cards (the riser A), when boot stay with a continuous red light. It just recognize the ram modules into ram slot 1 and 2. The slot 3 and 4 just don't detect the ram modules.
- After running many tests I can't see any problem with any ram module. I think the problem is that specific ram Riser Card but at this is the first time that happens to me I don't know exactly if is just that or have more unknown problems.
So in your opinion, it's possible a ram riser card become faulty at two of the four ram slots or I'm away of the real problem?
Sorry for my bad English.
Cheers!
I'm facing a problem with an Mac Pro 1,1 (2006).
First of all let me give all SW and HW specs:
- The computer itself is a Mac Pro 1,1 but was flashed to be recognized as an 2,1 (2007);
- The installed CPU's are two E5345 @2,33 GHz;
- The GPU is and HD5770 flashed to work as an Apple version.
- Have 8GB RAM (1GB*8);
- Storage 2 SSD's (raid) and 1 HDD to backup;
- Have El Capitan installed (not natively supported).
It's all I can remember now.
I know that is a very old machine in terms of computers age, it's outdated and ultimately one day (maybe now) will stop working for many reasons. To be honest, I have it and still use it because even today it works fine and at this time never got me troubles.
Let me explain whats happening:
- Yesterday I needed to install on another disk an old version of OS X, I have a flash drive with Lion so try to install it.
- Do everything as normal for new installations but for any reason I don't know when installing Lion the computer just restarted, and give me a screen what I think was a kernel panic.
From that moment the disk with El Capitan got many random restarts. Some with kernel panic other was just a "simple" restart.
Tryed to install Lion again, it worked fine but I check that it just recognize 6GB of RAM instead of the installed 8GB. Reboot to El Capitan and still recognize 6GB of RAM.
- I opened it and checked that one of RAM riser cards (the riser A), when boot stay with a continuous red light. It just recognize the ram modules into ram slot 1 and 2. The slot 3 and 4 just don't detect the ram modules.
- After running many tests I can't see any problem with any ram module. I think the problem is that specific ram Riser Card but at this is the first time that happens to me I don't know exactly if is just that or have more unknown problems.
So in your opinion, it's possible a ram riser card become faulty at two of the four ram slots or I'm away of the real problem?
Sorry for my bad English.
Cheers!