Q: Is my logic board dead/dying?

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gumsie

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Q: Is my logic board dead/dying?

Hi all, was posting this elsewhere but thought I'd try here too.....

For a few weeks now, (this didn't happen after installing any software or updates - was just out of the blue), my 1st gen Mac Pro running 10.7.4 Server will only start from one particular drive, (Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD), that is about 30% full in Bay one. If in the wrong bay I just get the spinning for over five minutes at which point I stopped it, if in the right bay then after pressing the power button;

@ 8 secs white screen.

@ 28 secs Apple logo.

@ 34 secs spinning gear.

@89 secs can hear the other drives spin down.

@99 secs I get the login screen. I have a 10.7.4 clone but it will only work when cloned to the SSD in bay one. I currently have the SSD and a conventional hard drive in the machine in different bays for test purposes - I also have a Firewire backup drive. So far I've;

Removed everything apart from the minimum of components --

Reinstalled original RAM, (in total I can choose between two pairs of 512MB, a pair of 1GB sticks and a pair 2GB - matched and bought in pairs). I have run testdisk 6.13 as additional RAM test.

Tried an alternate graphics card. I have an Apple branded 5770 and an Apple branded 7300GT.

Swapped hard drive bays.

Removed both optical drives.

Unplugged speaker and headphones.

Unplugged all USB and firewire devices. (Keyboard/trackpad/display are all Apple ones).

Unplugged ethernet.

Removed the PRAM battery for long enough for the Mac to know the time is incorrectly set

Running the command, nvram -p in terminal outputs nvram: nvram is not supported on this system.

DVDPlayer.app quits silently when any .img file is mounted with terminal code: Error getting a reference to /options.

The Start up Disk Pref Pane, will not allow me to make changes. The message I get is 'The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk'.

I can boot from the original optical disc that came with it and use disk utility but cannot install Tiger from it. It never gets as far as choosing the destination.

The original AHT that came will not run, pressing D during start will eventually boot the Mac from the normal system.

I have tried SAFEBoot and Verbose Boot and the fsck tricks in Single user mode.

There is no AV software installed, (yet).

Any takers out there?

My startup log gives me the following;

BOOT_TIME 1349245410 0

Running kernel space in FIPS MODE

corecrypto.kext FIPS integrity POST test passed!

corecrypto.kext FIPS AES CBC POST test passed!

corecrypto.kext FIPS TDES CBC POST test passed!

corecrypto.kext FIPS SHA POST test passed!

corecrypto.kext FIPS HMAC POST test passed!

corecrypto.kext FIPS ECDSA POST test passed!

corecrypto.kext FIPS DRBG POST test passed!

corecrypto.kext FIPS POST passed!

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=6 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=7 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=4 LocalApicId=0 Disabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=5 LocalApicId=0 Disabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=6 LocalApicId=0 Disabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=7 LocalApicId=0 Disabled

calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet

Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)

calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox

Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)

calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine

Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)

MAC Framework successfully initialized

using 16384 buffer headers and 10240 cluster IO buffer headers

IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87

ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5]

PFM64 (36 cpu) 0xf80000000, 0x80000000

AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Enabling legacy HPET check

AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 00:59:42 Aug 25 2012) initialization complete

[ PCI configuration begin ]

PCI configuration changed (bridge=4 device=1 cardbus=0)

[ PCI configuration end, bridges 17 devices 26 ]

FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8025 built-in now active, GUID 0016cbfffe75220e; max speed s800.

ERROR: FireWire unable to determine security-mode; defaulting to full-secure.

mbinit: done [64 MB total pool size, (42/21) split]

Pthread support ABORTS when sync kernel primitives misused

rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: THE UUID OF MY SSD GOES HERE

Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>

com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start

com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start

com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded

com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded

AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready

BTCOEXIST off

wl0: Broadcom BCM4328 802.11 Wireless Controller

5.10.131.36

Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT0 @0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDri ver/Corsair Force 3 SSD Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/BOOT VOLUME@2

BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 15

Kernel is LP64

IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled

AppleIntel8254XEthernet: Ethernet address 00:17:f2:06:fe:d4

AppleIntel8254XEthernet: Ethernet address 00:17:f2:06:fe:d5

AirPort_Brcm43224: Ethernet address 00:19:e3:0a:f2:bc

IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete(): adding AppleEFINVRAM notification

macx_swapon SUCCESS

Waiting for DSMOS...

DSMOS has arrived

[CSRBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport][start] -- completed

Previous Shutdown Cause: 0

[IOBluetoothHCIController][staticBluetoothHCIControllerTransportShowsUp] -- Received Bluetooth Controller register service notification

[IOBluetoothHCIController][start] -- completed

AirPort: Link Down on en2. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).

en2::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed

[IOBluetoothHCIController::setConfigState] calling registerService

L2TP domain init

L2TP domain init complete

l2tp_udp_init_threads: changing # of threads from 0 to 3

Sound assertion in AppleHDAEngine at line 4346

Sound assertion in AppleHDAEngine at line 4379

Sound assertion in AppleHDAEngine at line 4346

Ethernet [Intel8254x]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [792d,af08,0de1,0e00,cde1,2836]

Ethernet [Intel8254x]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [792d,af08,0de1,0e00,cde1,2807]

Ethernet [Intel8254x]: Link up on en0, 100-Megabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [792d,6f08,0de1,0e00,4de1,4000]

[ffffff8010a22000][BNBTrackpadDevice::init][75.15] init is complete

[ffffff8010a22000][BNBTrackpadDevice::handleStart][75.15] returning 1

[ffffff801362be00][AppleMultitouchHIDEventDriver::start] entered

[ffffff8013621100][AppleMultitouchDevice::start] entered

Does anybody know what the bits in red point to?

...as of today today though, I can now pick different boot devices but still with the looooong boot times. I'm thinking hardware and not necessarily the SSD, am I wrong?