Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Mac Pro woes continue...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 
Tonight I went to the Natick Collection Apple Store and was greeted by my Genius at my scheduled time. The guy could not have been nicer, and since he was over the age of 26 and knew a ton of deep-level information.
It still boots to a kernel panic. We tried the RAM - seems like all the RAM is fine. We pulled the drives out and booted with another machine, drives are fine. Tried the diagnostics, kernel panic before the CD can be read. It's not faulty firmware, we pretty much rules out any software problems.
Tonight they took my machine, they had to download a special image to burn and run diagnostics on my Mac Pro -- which won't include any OS for the test. It's going to take a few hours to run the test and I pray to God that it finds out that one of the Superdrives is bad or something like that.
Otherwise a logic board is going to cost $1,300 and anything regarding CPUs is going to be really expensive too. AppleCare? Nope... I got the machine as a gift and I didn't pull the trigger on it because I thought it already had it (I think I did). Warranty? Ran out last November.
So if it's logic board or CPU, it's a dead box. Time to think about getting a new one, and there are new processors around the corner I think. But it SUCKs.
Praying Apple finds a cheap component or something that can be replaced.
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