Hi Everyone,
Been having a problem with my Mac Pro lately. It's a 2009 model Mac 3.1 with dual Intel Xeon processors.
Recently I did an overhaul of the computer and upgraded the RAM, graphics and installed an SSD as well.
After upgrading the RAM to 12GB (genuine MAC RAM) and graphics card to BFG GTX285 896MB (Mac edition card) and also installing an Intel 80GB SSD, my system has been a very fast beast!
However, after installing the SSD I cloned the old drive to the SSD and thats when issues started. My computer would freeze, but freeze in a strange way. I could still move the cursor, access the menu bar, and the music on Spotify would still play etc. The clock was still running along.
I just couldn't "click" anything, and the spinning twirly "hourglass" was what the cursor looked like (equiv of windows loading hourglass).
The only way to get the system to run again was to completely shut it off by the button and reboot. The system would be fine again then. It has become a daily occurence now and getting annoying - happens after using the MAC Pro for a period of time - like say an hour. The first half an hour will be fine, even if I'm doing CPU intensive photoshop stuff.
I installed OSX Mavericks clean from scratch yesterday (downgraded from EL Capitan) and it's happened less, but it has happened once so far!
Anyone know what could be happening? My fingers point to a software issue at this stage as it's not a "hard freeze" since it still plays music and cursors move as it "freezes".
Thanks.
Been having a problem with my Mac Pro lately. It's a 2009 model Mac 3.1 with dual Intel Xeon processors.
Recently I did an overhaul of the computer and upgraded the RAM, graphics and installed an SSD as well.
After upgrading the RAM to 12GB (genuine MAC RAM) and graphics card to BFG GTX285 896MB (Mac edition card) and also installing an Intel 80GB SSD, my system has been a very fast beast!
However, after installing the SSD I cloned the old drive to the SSD and thats when issues started. My computer would freeze, but freeze in a strange way. I could still move the cursor, access the menu bar, and the music on Spotify would still play etc. The clock was still running along.
I just couldn't "click" anything, and the spinning twirly "hourglass" was what the cursor looked like (equiv of windows loading hourglass).
The only way to get the system to run again was to completely shut it off by the button and reboot. The system would be fine again then. It has become a daily occurence now and getting annoying - happens after using the MAC Pro for a period of time - like say an hour. The first half an hour will be fine, even if I'm doing CPU intensive photoshop stuff.
I installed OSX Mavericks clean from scratch yesterday (downgraded from EL Capitan) and it's happened less, but it has happened once so far!
Anyone know what could be happening? My fingers point to a software issue at this stage as it's not a "hard freeze" since it still plays music and cursors move as it "freezes".
Thanks.
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