first time mac user few questions on installing and strange Audio sound

Hi guys,

just received my 6-core today!

i'm installing everything on it, Adobe...etc but i have a few questions and hope you fine people could help me out:

- i did all the software updates and when i look at "About this mac" it says Mac OSX 10.6.4, is this the latest and greatest osx version?

- I have my stereo connected to the back of the MacPro are the following settings correct "system performances- sound:

output = Line out - Audio line out port
input = none

Reason i ask this is all the sound is playing ok except while installing Adobe there was this loud "POF" trough my speaker set ? after about 50Min again this loud POF? is this some kind of faulty hardware problem or ...?

- Final question: when i install VLC player ot anny other software there is this file that shows up on the desktop ...after installation can i just remove this? because after i remove it and try to use VLC it says it can't find the player.

sorry if my questions seem a bit stupid, the most i'm concerned with this weird loud PAF trough the speakers or is this nothing to worrie about?

 

whenever i startup my mac, the start up sound comes trough the computer case speakers, how do i make it so that i don't hear them trough the computer speakers but trough my plugged in speakers?

also looks as if my macpro has a problem i'm going to call Apple tommorow about the plof sound i always hear. i tried another cable yet still same problem...what do they normaly do with this, ship me a new machine or do i need to send it in for repair, i just received it today and having it repaired emediatly would be a bit to much for a 4000$ computer wright?

 

Ok, got my old computer to work again...not 1 strange click or noise. So its safe to say its the Mac.

So how should this work, does this mean i have to ship it back and weight for them to repair a newly delivered 4000$ MacPro....do i get a New machine and get to keep this one till they deliver the new machine and do a switch?

it really weird, like i was just putting the volume up with my keybord and like 5 sec later there is this really loud POP trough the speakers...you could compare it a bid with plugin in a jack in or out in an amplifier...nothing wrong with the sound tho...just this loud POP every now and then

what a turn off for my first mac

You guys think they will ship a new one or is it going to be a refurb "if" they ship a "new" one...or does this mean i'll have to get it repaired?

 

could someone please shed some light on this. and maybe tell if this is a problem with the mac pro/hardware maybe sound card related.

Here's what i did, i have put the sound on mute via the keyboard, thinking if i muted the sound of the mac pro and if the loud pop that i hear every now and then ( for no particular reason) should still be there the problem wouldn't be mac related. So after doing this after like 30min. there was the loud POP.

is it safe to say that when the sound is on mute and the pop was still there it related to something else and not the mac pro? or doesn't it mean anything that the poping sound was still there even when all sound was muted and it could still be a faulty macpro?

maybe a stupid question but could this have anything to do with the electricity net...with the mac pro using allot of power...i just noticed a sligthly popping sound trough my speakers when i turn the light in my room on/off. Never had this with my previous computer.

 

contacted Apple and i have to say "Darn good customer service" the lady who helped me was very friendly and understanding, she told me that they will be shipping a new one and apologized for the inconvenience.

They even let me keep this one till i get the new one so i won't be stuck without a computer and Finnish my work.

Oh and i'm starting to get the feeling somethings really wrong with this one, few hours ago i started noticing that it was lagging allot for example when clicking on the documents folder in the dock, sometimes it just opened soooo slooooow or like freezes...not normal for a 3.33 6-core

i had spent 5 hours to get everything installed, now i have to deactivate all the keys and remove everything again...

 

ok guys, after having loud clicks or pops trough my external and internal speakers i contacted Apple and they decided to send me a new machine (6-core 3,33Ghz)...

It arrived yesterday and guess what...its the EXACT same problem as i had with the mac they replaced

What now?
How do i ******* fix it because its simply no fun working on this machine, hate to call the Apple people again explaining them that the second computer has the exact same problem, they are probably going to say its not the mac since this one has the same problem but i'm 100% sure its the computer, when i have my headphones plugged into the front i also get these loud clicks from time to time.

will they ship another one or are they going to treat me as if I'm a complete idiot again who doesn't know how to plug in external speakers

is anybody else experiencing this problem with the new MP's ?

 

yeah it really is hillarious

look man, i have tested the damn thing like 24hours straight even took it at a friends house and tested it on his installation, same problem occurred. called Apple about the problem again (after doing the tests they recommended) then Apple itself offered to ship me a new machine.

Now ofcourse i don't know about you but spending 5000$ on a machine that sounds as if there some explosion going on all the time isn't really what i was looking forward to when buying this computer, also i'd rather had a working one without going trough the trouble of spending hours and hours trying to figure out whats wrong and eventually spending precious time un-installing everything again and re-installing the new computer witch took about 4 hours to just set the ting up.

part from that, its all fun getting a computer that don't work the way it should, especially when paying hard earned money for it...who wouldn't want to get a faulty computer ey?

@goMac - And again this is "NOT" a speaker problem, even when the speakers are not plugged in the same crack can be heard trough the build in speakers and headphone output in the front of the computer. i'm guessing it has something to do with either sound card causing the problem or hard disk drive.

Either way you put it, it shouldn't have this problem point blank, were not talking ipods here, its an expensive machine, and Apple needs to just give me a machine that works, its not as if every macpro has this problem now is it? so unless every macpro has the same issue I'm saying its a defect that needs to be sorted out.