BSOD mac pro 10.4 tiger

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slayer5000xxx

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This morning i woke up and did my usual routine which was check emails, myspace and play some WoW for a bit. I was probably on for about an hour when suddenly i get the crash screen. the msg with the 4 different languages on it.

Well i did a hard restart (held the power button down) and it loaded back up. I got up to the blue screen where you log in but then it crashes again.

I restarted it again, saw the gray apple with the gray loading circle and once it goes to the blue screen it crashes again.

I removed my 4 gbs ram that i had upgraded and it still does it. Tried going into safe mode removing my log in items and still does it once i restart. Tried verifying my disk and repairing and once i restart it, it does it again.

the only way for me to log in seems to be in safe mode. any suggestions?

oh and i got a Mac pro 2 years old, with 1gb ram, 2.6 ghz and dual processor. i got a 250 disk space with about 35 gbs left of free space. i can free up to 30 gbs w/o an issue.

if that helps would it be possible to fix this w/o the boot disk because i cant seem to find it.

thanks in advance.
 
Did you recently downlad the upgrade to Safari? If you go back through the posts you should find my thread. Unfortunately the problem has not been resolved and everything I've tried makes the situation worse so I still don't have my Mac fixed. I have reinstalled the system from the original disk several times. I tried reinstalling everything from a back up which involved erasing the hard drive. Now I can't even boot to safe mode.
 
I downloaded the new safari 4 beta a while ago. And I do t think I made te update for it. But i'm unsure. Should I try removing safari and re downloading it to see if that's the prob?

Also since I don't have my boot disk I can't try what I did from there so once I get a new one (which is on it's way) I'll post any updates if anything worked.
 
I do use it. I have set for once a week. Sometimes when I get the MSG to update I don't do it cuz I'm either busy or I'm inpatient to wait for it. But when I get the time tho I do it manually by "check for update" option.
 
ok. well i took my mac pro to work because a coworker said he'd take a look at it and he came to a conclusion that it could be my riser card or port that could potentially be bad. reason being, the bottom riser card isnt recognizing any ram installed on it.

also the crashing, which was mentioned above, has stopped but now i cant get passed the blue screen before i can log on.

i have the same specs but i was upgraded to leopard 10.5. not sure if it helps. but if nothing works i guess ill be heading to the mac store soon.
 
When you have a kernel panic, there will be a file called panic.log. Finding that with spotlight will help - as it will tell what crashed.
But in this case, it does sound like RAM..
Try with Apple Hardware Test - boot holding down D letter (with some models you'll still need the install discs that came with the Mac, as they are for older Macs only contained in them - again boot with D down). After picking up the language, hit ctrl+L to hit the loop mode and run extended tests for a few hours. It will stop on error or when loop is stopped with the same shortcut.
 
I've tried looking for the panic log but unfortunately since it hasn't crashed I didn't find one. But I am currently running the tests right now.

ATM the moment the main prob is that I keep getting sTuck on The blue screen. So hopefully these tests will yell me something
 
Well I ran the extended tests for 5 hours and it never once stopped. Not sure if it found an error or not but from the looks of it I'm guessing it didn't.

I shut it down after I stopped it and rebooted it and nothing I still get stuck at the blue screen
 
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