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Mac Pro Tower 2010 makes strange noise and won’t boot. White led is ok and startup sound too

I have recently installed a new driver for Apple mobile devices on my Mac Pro 2010 wich is running Windows 10. Then I restarted the pc and a strange noise began. Everytime I try to power on the Mac, it does this strange noise immediatly, the white led turns on and then the startup sound, but the Mac won’t boot, I’m stuck on no signal/black screen. I was able to turn the mac on after that two times, tried to figure out what I did, but I really didn’t do nothing different, I was just trying and trying to turn on. It stopped the strange noise both times when I suceeded at turning the Mac on, but my usb drivers were gone and I had to restart it to boot in Recovery mode. But it won’t boot again. Does someone know what can be happening here and how can I solve it?

I’m Sorry I don’t speak english very well, but I hoje you understands this 🙏🙏 Thanks so, so much ind advance guys

Posted on Nov 24, 2023 10:48 AM

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Posted on Nov 24, 2023 1:32 PM

You circled the DVD reader housing. A DVD reader trying to start will make a strange noise.

The speaker is on the front panel board below.


try removing those DMMs and see if the symptoms change. Be sure to mark which slot is which DIMM.

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Nov 24, 2023 11:35 AM in response to yago224

The initial "chime" sound is generated in software when your Mac passes the Power-On Self Test. If the chime occurs and/or startup continues, your Mac is working. The blank gray screen should light up. Then on to the disk Drive.


The simplest thing your Mac can do is hold the Option key at startup to boot to Startup Manager/Boot-Picker, whose code is all in ROM. It draws a blank gray screen, then searches for bootable drives for several minutes. Any potentially-bootable drives get an Icon added to the display.


Once you choose a drive, anything that happens after that is based on what is on the disk drive.

Nov 24, 2023 11:45 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

I don’t have a mac keyboard with option and command, I’m using a windows based one. When I was able to turn the Mac on without the strange noise I tried both using f8 command key, F12, windows + r, alt. Each time I was able to turn on I tried a different command, but nothing happened. It justs open my Windows as usual, but I can’t do nothing because the usb ports won’t work.

I’m stuck with two different issues :/

Nov 24, 2023 11:58 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

I tried, but nothing happens. My major problem right now is that it doesn’t always turn on. The chime from startup always work, but most of the times I just press the power on button and a strange noise begin, I dont know how to explain but sounds just like a tattoo machine. Everytime this noise begins, the computer won’t boot. Leds 3 and 4 are on a red light.

Mac Pro Tower 2010 makes strange noise and won’t boot. White led is ok and startup sound too

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