Mac Pro(desktop) bootup issue

[anjalpetty]

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I’m facing a weird problem in my home mac pro(desktop). It requires at least 4 hard reboot for a successful boot.

This is the pattern I’m seeing.

boot #1. beeps, lights on, nothing on the screen.
boot #2. beeps, lights on, gray screen with apple logo, gear keeps running
boot #3. beeps, lights on, login screen, some pixel corruption – freeze
boot #4. beeps, lights on, login screen, enter password – freeze
boot #5. beeps, lights on, login screen, enter password – successful login.

I see this pattern all the time booting from scratch.

any help would be appreciated, it’s a real pain to boot the system in this manner.

rAj
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[jleo]

Try booting up from your System DVD, run disk utility to see if there is any system software corruption. If so, repair.

If that doesn't help, could be a hardware issue.

 

[David Saraceno]

Which Mac with what operating system?

How much RAM?

Have you upgrading the system recently?

Zapped your PRAM?

help us out with some details.