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2008 Mac Pro is down
🕑 Added 2024-01-23 04:00:49 +0000 UTC
After not waking from sleep a few times, my main workhorse for 16 years, the Mac Pro 2008 will chime but not boot. I'll figure it out, but I realize that I need to get an emergency back-up in place.
The closest I have is a 2006 Mac Pro. In the G5 video, I touch on the first round of Mac Pros with their Quad Core Xeons at 2.0, 2.66 and 3.0GHz, saying, "I never see 2Ghz! Did anyone actually buy one?", then I realize mine is a 2GHz. (wah,wah)
I looked online. Well, someone is selling 9 for $1100. I don't need 9 really.
I will keep you all updated on this situation.
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Another 2.0GHz Mac Pro! Definitely can scratch my baseless observation that no one bought them. Very cool editing set-up, thanks for sharing that!
iiiDIY
Hope you're back up and running already! Or soon! Story time: I bought a used 2.0 MacPro 1,1 back around 2009-10-ish. With all the internal drive bays, it was an affordable video-server that let us direct-edit video files over ethernet! At our peak, we had about a dozen 1,1 and 3,1's lining the bottom shelf of several PAX units (with cooling fans cut in, of course)
Mac Folklore Radio
Hang in there! :\ My 2010 Mac Pro developed "need to be rapidly powered up twice in a row to boot" power supply syndrome about five years in, and the Radeon 5770 went kaput in its ninth year. ($400 for a new PSU from eBay that's just going to do the same thing? No thanks...)
