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So we recently had a weird power 'outage' where the power still seemed to be surging some (my monitor was blinking wouldn't turn completely off until I yanked the plug on it), and to my dismay, when the power came back on, I started having boot issues with my Mac. For Mac Pro (2009-2012) Updated for 2015, the OWC Hard Drive Bracket is the new universal standard to install any SATA hard drive in a Mac Pro tower, including the latest 6.0TB SATA hard. NB - OWC Hard Drive Sled / Bracket for Mac Pro 2009, 2010-2012 'Westmere' & 'Nehalem' Models ONLY, (not for Mac Pro 2006-2008 Models) OWC Hard Drive Bracket.

And finally the one and only (swapped) hard drive. APPLE 500GB HARD DRIVE OS X SNOW LEOPARD OFFICE MACBOOK PRO 2006 2008 2009 2.5.Each Mac Pro system - regardless of series - has 'four independent 3 Gb/s Serial ATA 2.0 cable-free, direct attach hard drive bays' with 'four internal hard drive carriers included.' As these hard drive carriers are designed for a 3.5' hard drive, an adapter is needed to properly accommodate a 2.5' SSD.So I started yanking things. All to no avail.Get the best deals on Hard Drive With Os and find everything youll need. Even swapped CMOS battery. With the hard drive of the secondary machine cross-installed into the one that got 'hit' by the outage, I simply got the chime and then it stuck on the dreaded gray screen, and out of all the boot options, the only one that would get me a different result was to try to option-boot into the Startup Manager, which would still give me the gray screen but also a mouse cursor after about a minute.

It (or any others) are just not being recognized by the problem box.Let's try to simplify this. :/That said, there's nothing wrong with the hard drive itself, as I've tested it in another identical machine and it booted just fine. From experience or otherwise? Thanks in advance!Yeah - that's not going to solve my hard drive problem, but thanks for contributing the 'you should have had a UPS' lesson to the conversation. I'm also hard presed to believe that the power outage/surges caused the SATA cable(s) to go bad yet nothing else, which still have me leaning towards SATA controller on the board or a power supply issue despite the fact the tests passed.Thoughts, opinions, or comments.

As such, It very well may just be the 'Hard Drive Harness Cable', although I need to order a male to female SATA extension cable so I can hook the drive up directly to the data side of that the drive bay connectors to determine whether it's the data side or the power side causing issues. I finally got the hard drive to recognize and boot again, but ended up having to use one of the two extra SATA connector ports on the board (which I can only assume are handled by the onboard SATA controller as well) and a 4-pin molex to SATA power adapter connected to the power output for the secondary optical drive. :/Well it wasn't the power supply, nor apparently the SATA controller (I don't believe at this point). It was to troubleshoot the already existing problem, and you suggesting I run out and drop a combined $1000 on UPS units for each of the five 2008 Mac Pros I still have in my department is neither contributory to the thread topic nor cost-effective just to (possibly) prevent another (what seems to now be) $10 cable issue yet another 6 years down the road. I'm not saying it doesn't, but 'prevention' is not why I started the thread.

In the meantime, does anyone want to speculate on whether it's the cable itself or maybe the SATA chain power plug on the board could be bad? It looks to be pretty close to the main power input connector on the board, so just wondering if (worst case scenario) something could have popped on the board between the two? Seems unlikely, but.Either way, I can always work around it all if necessary by utilizing the same setup I got it to boot with.

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