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HWMonitor is pretty slick. I'll install it when I get home and see if it can tell me what's going on. I like the fact it's on the desktop all the time and you don't have to switch over to Widgets to view. Thanks, DM

Well, I left the room for 5 minutes and came back and Firefox had locked up. The monitor was black across the bottom 2/3 and white across the top. I shook the mouse and the screen came back for a moment but then went black and white again. That was short-lived.

Firefox has been running for 10 minutes so far and no lock ups - that's an improvement! DeltaMac - I did run one of the the Fans apps you mentioned before. What app will help me monitor the temps? MacToolsPro checked the sensors and all were nominal.

I deleted the 5 .plist files for Safari and the one for Firefox. After a restart that I initiated, I launched Safari and it crashed. My next move was to launch Firefox but haven’t got around to that yet. I may do a new install of Safari to see if maybe the app was corrupted somehow. What led me...

Over the past couple of weeks, I have figured out that the computer runs for hours as long as I don’t go to the Internet. I worked in iTunes today, worked in Photoshop, did some work in Illustrator. Once I went to Safari, the Mac locked up, screen went blank, and went into reboot. Any ideas on...

I will check those out. I did use TechTool pro and it told me that the fans all operated at a proper speed. I did not notice if TechTool pro checked the temperature or not. Thanks again for the help!

I've kinda run into a wall on this. The LEDs read okay now - not getting the #3 to light up anymore. But when the mac is running for maybe 3-5 minutes, the screen flickers from the bottom up and the mac reboots. It then goes into a cycle of trying to go again, which may be 3 attempts, before I...

Sorry for all the updates. I'm doing this all on my iPhone. After reading that I need to hold the button while starting up, all LEDs appear normal. Then it went into reboot and LED#3 came on.

Powering up. No LEDs at all.

Found the reset button! YouTube is a wonderful thing. I will push the reset, restart and see what happens.

Is it necessary to remove the memory cage to see the LEDs?

OK, I will pull out the memory risers and set up my camera on video so I can get a good view of what's going on when I reboot. The old eyeballs aren't what they used to be!

Go Got it downloaded. Lots of good info there. Odd that everything has been going no problemo for over a year and then pow. Okay, looking into the side and have NO idea where these LED's are located. All hd's are pulled and booting off of thumb drive. Thumb drive came up but shut down after 2...

Ya, I have a Belkin wifi router between the cable box and Mac. The Cox cable box is not wifi.

I remember on my previous Mac G5 that it had a series of diagnostic lights towards the front left side. I have not checked where these are on this Mac. There are 4 ports on the wifi router. The Cox cable modem box goes to the router by ethernet cable and returns to the mac via ethernet. Last...

Cox Cable, sorry

Also, when I plug in the wifi router between the Cox box and the Mac, the wifi and router goes down. Wifi is just for our iphones.

Thanks, DeltaMac. I 'believe' I had all other drives pulled. 2 trays have a 2gb drive with OS partitioned into 2-1gb drives, a third is storage. ! will also try to boot from the TechToolProTogo from the thumb drive with no drives at all and see what happens. In your opinion, does the monitor...

Good morning - My Mac Pro 2008 decided this past weekend to become possessed with an endless loop of Kernel Panics. It reboots about 3/4 of the way and shuts down, attempts to reboot again, and same thing. I have been able to run TechTools ProTogo from a thumb drive just once and it found...

Another question about video cards. I was told lonog ago there is no such thing as a stupid question. So… If I add a second video card, do they act like memory sticks? Would they work together and increase the speed?