FU to my fried MacPro

[bazookaman]

So upon further examination, I discovered the power connector that was connected to my SATA bluray burner was pretty much one with the actual burner. So i suppose that is what melted...for whatever reason.

Anyway. Thinking I had it licked, I removed said burner, remantled everything and started her up. Well, it started...with no burning smell. However, the fans came on like nobody's business. And it really seemed like they were going faster and faster and faster. For a minute I had to make sure I didn't have a G5. But that was it. The little white light was lit, Fans were going full tilt. But nothing else. No booting or nothing.

What did I do and how do I fix it?

edit: oh yeah. No chime neither.

[space-time]

so that was the reason why Apple does not put bluray in Macs...

[Acer]

Sounds like a fused framistan. I predict your credit card's gonna be heating up next.

[Catzilla]

Acer wrote:
Sounds like a fused framistan. I predict your credit card's gonna be heating up next.

I disagree, sounds open, not fused.

[nwyaker]

Power supply, methinks. Try reset Power Manager ...http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/resetpmchip.html#Anchor-Instructions-47857

[bazookaman]

Well. I took everything out and put it back in. And it boots now. But no system. Hard drives do not spin up and the opticals do not power on. So it's like I burnt out the bus or something. Toasted mobo? Can you bake your mobo but still boot and display video?

[clay]

I doubt it. Any chance your drives are toast? Do you have a known good external that you could try booting from? Or an external optical drive that could boot the system from a DVD? Or diskwarrior on CD?

[bazookaman]

I do have an external optical but no enclosure. The only enclosure I had was for an SATA drive which I eventually put into my tower which is what fried. Maybe I'll see if I can borrow one from work tomorrow.

But why would it not see the hard drives? I've got 2 that are bootable. It SHOULD pick up on one of them.

[clay]

bazookaman wrote:
But why would it not see the hard drives? I've got 2 that are bootable. It SHOULD pick up on one of them.

Maybe your SATA ports on the motherboard fried, or it's possible that the drives themselves are either dead or have fried ports, etc. If you had an external enclosure or dock that would work with SATA drives, you could pull the drives and find out if they're dead or not. Or, you may even be able to tell by opening up the side of the MP and listening for drives spinning up or feeling them to test for vibration/spinning. It is also possible that a couple of the SATA ports fried, but the drives are OK, in which case moving one of the bootable internals to another drive bay could potentially get you up and running again. Maybe the issue is RAM...can you strip down to a single pair?

Unfortunately, there are a lot of unknowns right now...may have to try a bunch of different things to see what works.

[Chakravartin]

Take the side-panel off while it's powered up.

Are there any red lights lit on the motherboard or memory-riser cards?

Can you find the diagnostic LEDs? Are any lit? Which ones light if you press the button?

Diagnostic LEDs
The Mac Pro logic board includes set of LEDs to help service providers troubleshoot the computer. The LEDs are located toward the rear of the logic board, under the memory cage, next to PCI card slot 1. You can view these LEDs by removing the computer's side access panel and looking through the memory cage to the logic board below. LEDs 2, 3, 4, and are normally off and will automatically illuminate if an error occurs. To read LEDs 1, 6, 7, and 8, you must press the DIAG_LED button, which is adjacent to the LEDs. To press the DIAG_LED button, use the nylon probe tool (Apple part number 922-5065) Mac Pro Troubleshooting -- General Information 11