Q: Mac Pro Trouble Booting
I have a Mac Pro Tower that refuses to start up the first time I press the power button, the machine "turns on" in a sense that the light on the front illuminates and I hear a click, however the fans and the drives don't engage and the screen is blank. I am then forced to hold down the power button until it shuts off and the hit the power button again, and every time on the second time, it boots up. Now I use this Mac equal parts on the Mac partition and equal parts as a PC, this problem emerges when I'm booting into both, but I put in this detail to explain one other thing, I have a PC graphics card in the computer. I have all the proper CUDA Driver Version which allows me to do this on the mac, but it might have something to do with it. Although the problem persists when I have my Mac AFI graphics card in the computer as well. I also want to add some other details, Neither the mac of the PC partition can go into sleep mode or the computer goes back to being a brick with just the front light on. (Sometimes the LED keyboard works, and sometimes it doesn't after sleep mode.) Additionally, if I restart the computer it boots up fine first time, as well as when I switch from mac to PC partition. I've tried doing SMC and PRAM resets and that hasn't worked, does anyone have any thoughts?
Thank you guys for any input you might have.
Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Sep 7, 2016 1:22 PM