Maybe you can tell me why my Mac occasionally wakes from sleep and the machine’s monitor won’t come alive but the external monitor does. I have to reboot it(unplug it plug back in) and it will work ok again for some random number of sleep wakes.
--FT Sent from iPhone > On Aug 3, 2020, at 9:23 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I've periodically reported on my various Adventures in Computing, and I > thought I'd check in again. As some may recall, I upgraded my main > desktop home/work (now) system from a Mac Pro 2,1 to a Mac Pro 5,1 > (both were common firmware upgrades from the immediately preceding models, > followed by CPU upgrades), and I had a LOT of trouble trying to run a pair of > spendy > 3.46 GHz processors. These were unreliable in a pair, but either would work > great > in a single-CPU card. I finally gave up and put in some cheaper, slower 2.93 > GHz > processors, a speed that matched what it had in its 4,1 state, and the thing > hasn't > hiccuped since. I booted it on May 28, the morning I installed the > stock-speed but > upgrade CPUs, and it's been running nonstop ever since. (Yes, "who -b" says > May 28.) > > I run Mac OS High Sierra, almost the newest it will take. I also run, via > VMWare 11, > Windows 10 and Linux. I also run Raspbian via Qemu, since I'm developing for > Raspberry Pi as well. (For use in the Theme Park augmenting coin slots with > the Park's cash-equivalent cards.) All of these work flawlessly, and > simultaneously, > using multiple desktops to keep the mess contained on the 30" main monitor. > It never even breathes hard, it has 48GB of RAM. > > It has been an exceedingly painless and highly effective and satisfying time > since I got off the Gigawagon. Nothing I do is even remotely CPU-bound, > except > the ARM simulation. And that is about the same speed as a Pi 1B, so it's not > horrible. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
