Hi All,
This is pretty peculiar and may not be so easy to explain.
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro (3,1) running El Capitan. For close to 10 years it has performed flawlessly, I think I had to remove or swap a graphics card once in all that time.
For around a week, it will not show web pages, and will not display the icons in the applications folder when in icon (rather than list) view.
Let me start with the web pages. This is not a DNS or specific browser issue. It happens in Safari and Chrome. I open Safari and click a shortcut. The URL bar has the normal blue line running left to right, completes, and I see nothing. The web page is there - the status bar behaves normally, the mouse changes shape over hyperlinks, and I can click on links to load new pages - but every page has no content. If I go to a page that has a pop-up (I've only found two - one of our company's database with a log-in box, and one an MLB page with a 'headlines' box containing scrolling stories) I can see where the pop-up box would be, but can't see anything in the pop-up box or anything on the page behind.
If I use a shortcut to Applications in the dock, when I click the shortcut I see the usual application icons. Not a finder window, but all the icons are there, working normally. If I click 'Go' then Applications, finder opens, it takes a second to count my icons and displays the number of applications and disk free space as normal, but the window is just solid white space. Like with the browsers, the applications ARE there; if I have preview open I can click in the white space until I land on an invisible icon and the details pop up on the right. If I go to List view, everything works as normal. Same with columns. Cover Flow view does not work - I can see the list below, but the actual cover flow window is blank.
I've tried a different profile, and the same happens. I've reset the NVRAM. I've changed the graphics card because I convinced myself it was a daft enough problem that it had to be hardware related. If I can't think of another option I'll do a clan reinstall over the weekend to a spare HD to rule out or in software/hardware.
Has anyone seen this before? Any suggestions at all?
Thanks for reading,
David
This is pretty peculiar and may not be so easy to explain.
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro (3,1) running El Capitan. For close to 10 years it has performed flawlessly, I think I had to remove or swap a graphics card once in all that time.
For around a week, it will not show web pages, and will not display the icons in the applications folder when in icon (rather than list) view.
Let me start with the web pages. This is not a DNS or specific browser issue. It happens in Safari and Chrome. I open Safari and click a shortcut. The URL bar has the normal blue line running left to right, completes, and I see nothing. The web page is there - the status bar behaves normally, the mouse changes shape over hyperlinks, and I can click on links to load new pages - but every page has no content. If I go to a page that has a pop-up (I've only found two - one of our company's database with a log-in box, and one an MLB page with a 'headlines' box containing scrolling stories) I can see where the pop-up box would be, but can't see anything in the pop-up box or anything on the page behind.
If I use a shortcut to Applications in the dock, when I click the shortcut I see the usual application icons. Not a finder window, but all the icons are there, working normally. If I click 'Go' then Applications, finder opens, it takes a second to count my icons and displays the number of applications and disk free space as normal, but the window is just solid white space. Like with the browsers, the applications ARE there; if I have preview open I can click in the white space until I land on an invisible icon and the details pop up on the right. If I go to List view, everything works as normal. Same with columns. Cover Flow view does not work - I can see the list below, but the actual cover flow window is blank.
I've tried a different profile, and the same happens. I've reset the NVRAM. I've changed the graphics card because I convinced myself it was a daft enough problem that it had to be hardware related. If I can't think of another option I'll do a clan reinstall over the weekend to a spare HD to rule out or in software/hardware.
Has anyone seen this before? Any suggestions at all?
Thanks for reading,
David
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