I have a 2006 Mac Pro 1,1. The Original Mac Pro. However, I can not do a reboot from the operating system's Menubar. I've tried other clean installations and the problem persists. I've reset the SMC, PMU, and the NVRAM. A reboot is still not working. It just hangs with the white light being on. I have to do a hard reboot to make it work properly. Any ideas??
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
How did you manage a clean install?
I could ask if you upgraded graphic card, a given and must for Lion.
Hard reboot will only corrupt the boot drive directory and require Lion Recovery / Safe Boots / booting from a clone of Lion (recommand CCC).
PRAM you mean, there is no PMU (PowerMac and G4)
A new hdd and zero the drive to totally format.
Suspect keyboard and other devices. Also if you added a Airport BT card or other hardware.
FBDIMMs. Cheaper and better now than ever, $30 2x2GB.
My apologies, I was also working with an iMac G4 today trying to troubleshoot it.
Yes, upgraded to 5770. Lion was installed on a new SSD. Other than that, no additional hardware such as Airport or Bluetooth cards.
SSD need TRIM Enabler and you need a restore image alternate boot drive to run Disk Utility's Repair Disk - good to do as needed and esp. after all the writing of an OS install.
And check that the SSD manuf. has new firmware.
Sounds like SSD related to me.
Before you clone, install TRIM Enabler!
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time after you had the problem. Select the messages logged before the boot, while the system was unresponsive or was failing to shut down. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the end of the log extract.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the entire contents of the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.
Original Mac Pro does NOT Reboot, Cold Boot WORKS
