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ludykriz

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Original poster
Mar 31, 2016
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Hi! is anyone running a PCI Flash Drive in their system?

i bought a used 2012 MacPro 5.1 and it came with a PCI Flash Drive however I been experiencing problems.
the computer came with Mojave installed on that drive and when i wiped it out only Apple could deal with restoring my data from another drive. They couldnt format it OS Journaled, only APFS and only for Mojave. i had my system running fine for 3-4 days and when i tried to install a driver for my shuttlePRO v2 the computer is stuck at the apple logo load screen. I tried to reset my vram, i tried to restor (leads to black monitors) and i tried save mode (cant even log in)

I also have an solid state drive from my old 3.1 that I plug in and my old system loads no problem. so this has me thinking is the PCI card and Flash Drive technology not a good match with the 5.1?

I dunno what to do.. do i buy a new hard drive. if so do I buy another flash drive or a SSD 2.5
 
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