Hi. I have a 2006 Mac Pro (1.1) that is my main work machine since, well, it came out. I´m on Audio Post Production business and this computer is my main horsepower since 2006, working both on Windows (Nuendo) and Osx ( ProTools). I´ve never had issues working this last six years on both systems whit this machine, and I mean, Professionally. I´ve upgraded the ram 2 years ago to 15 Gb(it came with 1 Gb from factory), 8 months ago I changed the CPU´s to Xeons quad X5365 and the ghraphics to ATI Hd 5770, all this changes where constantly monitorized (temperature, errors, etc...) almost twice a day, no issues here. Yesterday, I´ve boot the Mac Pro into Windows 7 x64, plugged in a WD powered hard drive into one of the front Usb Ports and the Windows system stucked on the Western Digital Window. Did a hard reboot on OSX and pulled the chord from the WD hard drive without "ejecting" it and felt some kind of electricity Short between the male/female Usb connections (had that experience before but everythig kept working fine). Please HELP!!! my front USB connections are dead along with the "Power Led". Headphones, Firewire and Power button (without White led), are working fine. Yes, I´m having that message (on OSX) "the usb device was drawing too much power......." , I dont know what to do?!!! I´ve already done every type of reset that I´ve found here on the internet also opened the Mac Pro, reached the front USB board, cheked if it was ok and it didn´t seem to have any issues at all!!! The funny thing though is that, as my power button led is dead, when I did an SMC reset from the main logic board, I saw very brief glimpses of that white Led(?!), I´m assuming its not dead at all. I´me reaching anyone out there that coud give me some highlights Here as I´m unable to pay for a main logic board swap nor a new Mac Pro. Again, I´m on the Mac Pro right now writing this thread on windows 7 with no white power led color on front of the Mac Pro at all. Sorry guys for my poor english, I´m from Portugal(Europe). I wish that was someone out there with the right answer...(I'm guessing a front panel replacement or some kind of software trick). Sorry for the enormous statement....
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