Apple mac pro desktop quad core software#

Last night, I used the normal Drive 3 HD as start up disc, and after it got to the beach ball stall out, I just left it for a few minutes. Of course when I restart, the same sequence recurs. The window message is repeated in four languages. I got as far as the restart after disk one was finished and the drive goes through the same sequence but instead of the grey screen flickering and turning blue, then going grey again - the blue screen appears as if a blind is being pulled down until the screen is dark blue and a window appears in the middle of the screen telling me I have to restart the computer.

Apple mac pro desktop quad core software#

I attempted to use the original optical disk a few days ago to reinstall the software on drive 2. Drive 1 and drive 3 both go through the sequence as previously described. I did as you suggested and the results were the same as when I use the option key on start up. I have to push and hold the power button to shut it down. After that, you can move the beach ball around with the mouse, but that is all she wrote. After about twenty seconds with nothing happening, the cursor turns into the spinning beach ball. Normally my desktop Image would appear and then all of the desktop icons, and away we go. Pretty much a normal start up sequence to that point. The cursor arrow appears at the top left corner of the screen. I hear a click and the screen goes blue, another click and it goes grey again. Screen goes grey with the darker Grey apple logo and the little progress spinny thing going round and round underneath the logo. Push start button - start up tone sounds and you can hear the hard drive spool up. I am running Snow Leopard still because I am still using Macromedia Freehand. The extended hardware test on the original software disk comes out as “everything normal”. This is problem is a strange one and I don’t think it is a hard drive issue, but I am at a loss. The current one is a terabyte drive, about four years old and I was thinking of populating the last bay with a newer one recently. I have progressively added new hard drives over the last 10 years to keep the start up disk young. Thanks for the response - it an earlier dual core Intel Xeon aluminum Mac Pro tower tarted up with extra memory and three hard drives In the internal bays.