Mac Pro Blue Screen of Death

[DSpec1]

A relatively new Mac Pro (XEON) processor has now provided me with the pleasure of the Blue Screen of Death.

Installled the latest version of iTunes.

Tried to copy my backup files one drive to another. Lock up.

Blue screen of death.

Tried all of the suggestions. I would love to reinstall OSX but sadly, I can't open the CD drive.

Nothing helps.

No warning, no nothing. Just dead.

Get to go to the Genius Bar tomorrow. Probably.

Thanks for letting me share.

[Dubster]

Super bummer - hope you get it straightened out/replaced with a quickness tomorrow.

[Lagerfeldt]

Originally Posted by DSpec1

Tried all of the suggestions. I would love to reinstall OSX but sadly, I can't open the CD drive.

Did you try starting up and holding down the mouse button? Do this for 1 minute or so until it ejects.

Did you try resetting the P-RAM?

Did you try doing a hardware diagnostics? Startup holding down the D key.

[houseplant]

When your Mac Pro boots are you getting the standard Apple Boot Tone? if so.. try holding the option key down after the tone to bring up the boot menu. You can eject your disc from there.

If holding down the option key doesn't work. I usually try alternating between the 2 options keys (right/left) during boot and that will usually work. It can be quite finicky.

Hope that helps in the meantime.

-Chris

[bexarametric]

A blue screen of death or a kernal panic? Are you running windows on a MAC? Was it a 64 bit blue screen or a 32? jk

[matt82aust]

Try unpluggins all peripherals and retarting (extra monitors, keyboards etc)

Check the RAM and try different combinations if you can?

Boot from an external hard drive and see if that kicks it into life?

i hate computers...

[DSpec1]

You gents are excellent.

Going downstairs to try everything out... will report bck.

Thanks you.

[sardi]

Originally Posted by matt82aust

Try unpluggins all peripherals and retarting (extra monitors, keyboards etc)

I know that's a typo, but damn it's funny!!

HAHAHAHA!!

[DSpec1]

Perhaps I might be missing something, but I was unable to boot it up.

It's now all boxed back up and off to the Mac Store tomorrow.

We'll see what happens.

Thanks very much. I'll let you know what the outcome was...

[DSpec1]

Well, so far, the Mac Pro appears to be healthy again.

I learned a number of Mac tricks from the good people at the Apple Store.

Good think I had everything backed up because we had to do an erase and install Mac OSX.

So far, so good.

Thanks for your support on this.

[theblue1]

Congrats. And good on you for having everything backed up.

I recently faced an unexpected decision when dealing with a dissimilar situation but parallel decision. Only I bet wrong and had to spend the next hour or two redoing work (of a technical, not artistic, nature) that was lost when I realized that some of the "current" files I was counting on had -- only the night before -- been accidentally overwritten by older versions in a little "drag and drop" accident I had been, up until that moment, unaware of.