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Mac Pro 2008 - Crashing

I have a Mac Pro 2008 Quad Core machine - with the latest version of Mavericks on it.

I can't currently turn on my computer all the way to grab all of my system details - but I have a terabyte of free space and 10GB of RAM.


Sometimes my computer powers down when I am in the middle of working.


Sometimes it restarts itself in the middle of powering on.


My main issue is when I am working my screen glitches and then I cannot do anything on the computer - aside from moving the mouse.


The screen cuts in and out like this, sometimes more severely than others. Sometimes small sections of the screen are glitching while I'm working on other things.

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I'm not sure if its my memory or my graphics card or what to do at this point. I can't get past my log in screen without the screen glitching like this.


I have no idea if this crash report is worth posting, but maybe it'll help.


Thanks in advance


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__TEXT 000000008fedf000-000000008ff12000 [ 204K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /usr/lib/dyld

_ ∂ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=158.9M resident=61.1M(38%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=97.8M(62%)

Writable regions: Total=94.1M written=2124K(2%) resident=2376K(2%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=91.7M(98%)



REGION TYPE VIRTUAL

=========== =======

Kernel Alloc Once 4K

MALLOC 80.7M

MALLOC (admin) 48K

Stack 69.1M

VM_ALLOCATE 352K

__DATA 14.7M

__IMAGE 528K

__LINKEDIT 49.4M

__OBJC 1992K

__PAGEZERO 4K

__TEXT 109.5M

__UNICODE 544K

mapped file 117.4M

shared memory 4K

=========== =======

TOTAL 444.2M

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Posted on Jul 8, 2014 3:20 PM

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Jul 8, 2014 4:07 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

The disk seems to be ok. So I'm going to assume that its only my graphics card. Would you by chance happen to know if I would be compatible with this graphics card? I'm running 10.8 and have a quadcore processor


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Jul 8, 2014 4:24 PM in response to S_Cooper

going black and restarting is a bit more ambiguous. That could be caused by a lot of things.


Sudden power-down is most often caused by overheating. The "approved method" of reducing that problem is too move your Mac Pro to a 'don't care if it gets dusty' location and blow the dust airborne and out of your Mac with compressed air. Household vacuum cleaners can generate huge electronics-killing static charges in their wands, so if you vacuum, use only a computer-safe vacuum.

Mac Pro 2008 - Crashing

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