Loose wire?

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Loose wire?

Weird...I have a connection wire floating around behind or beside where bay1 Hard Drive slots in.This is on my Mac Pro
The wire that's marked with a black sheathing with an ID of number 2 written on it.
Does anyone know if this plugs into anything or does it just float around doing nothing!
That's the first problen...now the second, bay one is showed as very light grey in color, whilst the rest of the drives are a more defined and darker grey in color.This can be seenon the desktop.
System 2x3 Ghz Quad Cores Intel Xeon
Memory 8Gb ddr2 FB-DIM
There is also another problem: When i put Mac into sleep mode, it goes into shutdown procedure and starts from cold

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Apr 29, 2011 10:36 AM

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Ricks-

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Apr 29, 2011 10:56 AM in response to davidfromexeter

Sounds like the airport wires. If you do not have an airport installed there should be several of them loose with little marker tags under drive bay 1 and 2.

Rick

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Answer 2

Apr 29, 2011 11:03 AM in response to davidfromexeter

Define Airport

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Answer 3

Apr 29, 2011 11:05 AM in response to davidfromexeter

Tags 1 & 3 are connected to the pcb but no2 is hanging in mid air or rather tapped up with electrical tape now as not wanting to blow anything valuable

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Apr 29, 2011 11:05 AM in response to davidfromexeter

davidfromexeter wrote:

That's the first problen...now the second, bay one is showed as very light grey in color, whilst the rest of the drives are a more defined and darker grey in color.This can be seenon the desktop.

Open up Disk Utility and select that drive. See if it can be mounted, Repaired or Verified.

DIsk Utility will give details, both about the drive itself, when you select that, or about the mounted volume, which is in the Disk Utility list under the drive and set a little to the right. Clicking on each will give details and comparing those details with other drives in your computer may give you an idea of why it is showing up different on your desktop. May be as simple as repairing it or even just telling it to mount. (and then repairing it)

That's the place to start.

Rick

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Apr 29, 2011 11:09 AM in response to davidfromexeter

davidfromexeter wrote:

Define Airport

Here's a guide to installing the airport card in an early MacPro. Third picture down shows a good shot of the wires location and labeling.

http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/07/18/how-to-installing-an-airport-extreme-car d-in-an-intel-mac-pro/

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Answer 6

Apr 29, 2011 11:13 AM in response to Ricks-

Hi i have tried Disk Util and on drive one. It seems that there a lot of conflicts with the drive

User differs on "private/var/at", should be 0, user is 1.

Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/jconsole.jar ", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
User differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib", should be 95, user is 0.
User differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Libraries", should be 95, user is 0.
There are many thousands of conflicts whilst running Disk Utilit Verifying Permissions

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Answer 7

Apr 29, 2011 11:19 AM in response to davidfromexeter

Yes i must have the card fitted as its the same. I can't see the number 2 wire going any where. Would this be bluetooth wire number 2?

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Apr 29, 2011 11:21 AM in response to davidfromexeter

This is an old boot drive then? And you are no longer using it for that?

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Apr 29, 2011 11:22 AM in response to davidfromexeter

davidfromexeter wrote:

Yes i must have the card fitted as its the same. I can't see the number 2 wire going any where. Would this be bluetooth wire number 2?

Sounds like the Bluetooth wire. I think the BT wires have a plastic guard on them. You can use a bit of tape tp prevent a short if needed.

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Answer 10

Apr 29, 2011 11:25 AM in response to Ricks-

I purchased it secondhand about two years ago. Best thing i ever did...stay away fro the PC...Pile Of Crap..

Iwas unsure if the wire was anything to do with the other issues I have with my mac. Even though I have problems, i wold much rather have a Mac than a virus infected, everday crashing PC LOL

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Answer 11

Apr 29, 2011 11:28 AM in response to davidfromexeter

Repaired "System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleUSBEth ernetHost".
ACL found but not expected on "private/var/backups".
Repaired "private/var/backups".
Permissions repair complete

Thats the Verify done.

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Apr 29, 2011 11:33 AM in response to davidfromexeter

davidfromexeter wrote:

Repaired "System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleUSBEth ernetHost".
ACL found but not expected on "private/var/backups".
Repaired "private/var/backups".
Permissions repair complete

Thats the Verify done.

Is this drive your boot drive or an older system drive that is no longer being used for that purpose?

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Answer 13

Apr 29, 2011 11:57 AM in response to Ricks-

It's my boot drive. I can't remember now if it was the original boot drive...

The drive became full and i needed some information on it. The Mac would boot with a constant blue screen, wouldn't get any further than that.

I think i archived and installed this drive, but didn't quite now how to get to the old operating system.

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Answer 14

Apr 29, 2011 12:05 PM in response to davidfromexeter

If i take out all the drives and replace them with four diffent ones;Bay one won't show on the desktop even though it has a fresh install of operating system on it. This is what happens if i try to find out about the greyed out one i originally posted about

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Apr 29, 2011 12:13 PM in response to davidfromexeter

Might be a bad cable for that bay. Kid of a bear to get to, but not too expensive to swap out. Need the original Apple part.

Sounds like the drive you are working on is a past boot drive, not your current one. I would either do an archive and reinstall or just get all the data off it and reformat since you are no longer booting to it.

Rick

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