Slow Mac Pro

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Slow Mac Pro

I've also experienced a lot of slow-downs in regular computer related activity. typing, copying and pasting, etc. this used to be a screming fast machine. Ihave tons of RAM and even a 500gb SSD. it was getting slow in Snow Leopard too which is why Idid a clean install of Lion. my Macbook pro is faster and it's almost as old as this.

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Mac Pro

Model Identifier: MacPro1,1

Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon

Processor Speed: 3 GHz

Number of Processors: 2

Total Number of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per Processor): 4 MB

Memory: 18 GB

Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz

Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08

SMC Version (system): 1.7f10

cards and peripherals are

2 30" Apple Cinema Displays

2 NVIDA Geforce 7300 cards installed

eSATA card (pci1095,3132)

Scansnap scanner USB

Plantronics USB headset (audio device)

contour shuttle USB (jog shuttle wheel)

Logitech mouse (USB dongle)

Apple Extended keyboard USB

iMo 7" USB monitor

HP 3210xi multifunction printer

UPS power backup connected via USB

could any of this be causing the slow downs?

Imean like little pauses in mouse movemoents and text input and clicking on things etc?

I think this comouter should be a lot faster than it is.

Steve

Mac Pro

Posted on Dec 4, 2011 4:12 PM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Dec 4, 2011 7:46 PM in response to stevecirrus

Hi Steve,

Could be many things, open Console in Applications Utilities & see if we have constant messages going by.

One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...

PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive

Reboot, test again.

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stevecirrus Author

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Dec 4, 2011 8:52 PM in response to BDAqua

thanks for the tips

there are not constant messages in the console but there are a lot of them (4000 just today - is that normal?)

the most comon recurring messages are like this.

12/4/11 8:06:47.000 PM kernel: hfs: set hardlink bit on vol=BAY 2 boot drive cnid=27893 inoid=27865

only the numbers at the end change

and this one is very common:

12/4/11 3:20:35.259 PM [0x0-0x492492].com.microsoft.Excel: Dec 4 15:20:35 Steves-Mac-Pro.local Microsoft Excel[73515] <Error>: clip: empty path.

and this:

12/4/11 3:20:35.260 PM Microsoft Excel: clip: empty path.

try the safe boot and disk utility

thanks

Steve

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Answer 3

BDAqua

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Dec 4, 2011 9:31 PM in response to stevecirrus

Steve, the errors definitly need dealing with, but let's see after a Safe Boot, Repair & reboot.

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