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Mac Pro won't boot

Mac Pro won't boot

Everytime I press the power button, the white power LED comes on for a few seconds, and I hear fan noise then the machine just "clicks" off, almost as if someone removed the power cord abruptly. Needless to say, I didn't remove the power nor was the supply interrupted. I've tried diagnosing the problem by removing external devices one by one, but that made no difference. Also I did all the resets you can think of etc.

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mcgyver89 [Entry]

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mcgyver89 [Entry]

"I just had the exact problem on my 2006 MacPro 1,1.

I managed to get it to work. The symptoms where almost identical. It would attempt to start, and then just ""pop"" off again. I took all memory out (except for original ram), my 3 extra hard drives, even the video card, all with the same result.

I ended up taking the ""insides"" apart and thoroughly cleaning every part. I took the video card fan assembly off, cleaned the heatsink and cooling grid, I took the PSU fan apart, cleaned it. I took the front two fans out and cleaned them, as well as the back fan (by the memory). I also cleaned the cooling grid of the cpu. All these items had layers and layers of dust on them, almost like little blankets. While I had it apart I also replaced the CR2032 memory battery, since it is cheap, and I had read that there could be start-up issues if it was old..

After this, it started like a champ, and it was soooo quiet!!!"
mcgyver89 [Entry]

Hi There every body, mine from 2011 was dead, some weekends, try to rapair for this time, until i decide to put 3 ATX PSU 20amp in 12v Rail each, one for J1 conector, one for J2 conector and one for J3 Conector the c conecctor use 5vsb 3.3 vsb and PSU-ON and Ground, this mac pros drawn to much current thats the only way to do it satable 3 x 20amp atx PSU, the only thing you miss is the sleep fuction, but you get you $2000 machine back to life, people goes crazy buying used motherboard, Used PSU that have the same problem as original... serach for j1, j2, j3, c pinout take 3 cheap atx psu thats it, J3 goes for hd, pci 6 pin , j2 goes for cpus , j1 goes for pcie, C goes standby power and memory.... waste 1 hour and $60 to bring your mac to life again, you can takeit to apple support they dont get with failure and take your money, here in my countre apple service take from me a video card replacement hd 2900, they say they replaced psu to, i spend more than $600 for nothing, google you will see tons of people having the same problem, and buying on ebay a used PSU it wont work they all have se same problem in short time you will get failure again, is a PSU problem....