Tried to start up my classic Mac Pro this morning and all I could hear was fan noise and there was no display on my monitor using my normal mini display port but funny enough I could access it using my parallels access app on my iPad and I could see It was all working fine…
my boot drive is an internal SSD so it can’t be that making the noise…
Tried restarting it a few times to no joy…
just started removing internal sled drives and lo its booted ….obviously a failed drive ? Lucky all backed up in carbon cloner….
although oddly it only boots if I remove the 2nd and third drives….ummm I’ll put them out and look at them plugged in externally I think …
Well I plugged some spare working drives into sled 2 and 3 and tried it - and it wouldn't boot and the fan noise kicked in again so presumably something to do with the drive controllers ?
v strange - you lot any ideas ?
I have a M1 MacBook Pro as well which I will start using "properly" soon as my main machine so I was going to sell this machine but wondering now if that might not be possible....
my boot drive is an internal SSD so it can’t be that making the noise…
Tried restarting it a few times to no joy…
just started removing internal sled drives and lo its booted ….obviously a failed drive ? Lucky all backed up in carbon cloner….
although oddly it only boots if I remove the 2nd and third drives….ummm I’ll put them out and look at them plugged in externally I think …
Well I plugged some spare working drives into sled 2 and 3 and tried it - and it wouldn't boot and the fan noise kicked in again so presumably something to do with the drive controllers ?
v strange - you lot any ideas ?
I have a M1 MacBook Pro as well which I will start using "properly" soon as my main machine so I was going to sell this machine but wondering now if that might not be possible....
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