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Mac Pro keeps logging out since El Capitan

Upgraded my Mac Pro to El Capitan, all went well. I logged in, then logged into iCloud and that also went well. But then it crashed with a kernel panic, restarted OK.

It now is running OK but after a few minutes it will log me off and back to the password prompt. Very frustrating and not able to work with it in such very short windows of time.


Anybody else seeing this?


Paul.

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 4:29 AM

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Oct 2, 2015 9:12 AM in response to Dominick Saponaro

I've always had really poor performance issues when plugging two monitors into one GT 120 card. Do you notice performance degradation? Choppy animations, lagging scrolling, dragging, refreshing, etc.. with two monitors in one card?


I have four GT 120 cards on hand, but only generally use two of them, one monitor in each. I'd follow suit and put two monitors in one card, but for some reason it is really poor performance.

Oct 2, 2015 9:20 AM in response to jessefromtuolumne

Hard to say for me because Ive always had multiple displays plugged into one card. I guess any performance issues Ive always chalked up to the aging machine not specifically the cards with two monitors. Ive never noticed a difference using the single monitor hooked to one card versus the other two plugged in together while using a 3 monitor set up. As of right now I have two displays plugged into one card and the other monitor is disconnected to avoid the crashing. Seems to be acceptable performance. Maybe others can comment.

Oct 2, 2015 10:07 AM in response to jessefromtuolumne

Hi, same issue here with two monitors plugged into the GT120. The performance is somewhat sluggish, and forget doing anything that requires some graphics power. The card is old and only has 512MB, so that is part of the problem. If Apple does not fix the problem over the weekend, I might just buy a new GTX 970 card, which has 4GB and two DVI heads.


Regards,

Brian

Oct 2, 2015 11:35 AM in response to Paul Hodson3

I have the same problem. I have a 2010 Mac Pro connected to two external displays (Dell and Asus) via DVI. This morning it kept logging me off and wouldn't let me do anything. I'm working from home now. Don't remember specifics of the Mac Pro. I know it has 8 cores and 16G RAM. I'm not sure of the graphics cards. I couldn't send an error report. Hope someone from Apple is reading this forum.

Oct 2, 2015 2:19 PM in response to Eric Elziere

had same problem. downloaded Nvidia's latest graphics driver.


http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/92173/en-us


restarted after installing, and haven't had a log out in a good while. probably not sufficient time to be definitive yet, but enough to make a noticeable difference since it used to happen every few minutes (if not seconds) for me previously.

Oct 2, 2015 2:25 PM in response to alexjung

What video cards do you have installed?

alexjung wrote:


had same problem. downloaded Nvidia's latest graphics driver.


http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/92173/en-us


restarted after installing, and haven't had a log out in a good while. probably not sufficient time to be definitive yet, but enough to make a noticeable difference since it used to happen every few minutes (if not seconds) for me previously.

Oct 2, 2015 2:40 PM in response to lllaass

I have two cards installed, with 3 displays:

  • nvidia gt120
  • radeon 6870? (i forget, it's been too long haha. definitely 6xxx, but pc-flashed)

haven't had a logout in hours...

lllaass wrote:


What video cards do you have installed?

alexjung wrote:


had same problem. downloaded Nvidia's latest graphics driver.


http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/92173/en-us


restarted after installing, and haven't had a log out in a good while. probably not sufficient time to be definitive yet, but enough to make a noticeable difference since it used to happen every few minutes (if not seconds) for me previously.

Mac Pro keeps logging out since El Capitan

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