Baffled - HD won't boot in one machine, will in another

x61s
XP
working fine, no new installs
1) had a start-up fail with a 'critical battery error' message. no more starting up
2) with AC plugged in, goes to the screen with safe mode, safe mode with networking etc
3) no matter which I choose, it flashed to energy screen, then blue error screen, then back to safe mode screen
when I stick the hard drive into a T61 it starts up no problem
With the HD in the T61, I have tried all kinds of things to no avail.
I installed the Lenovo System Toolbox, but I get all kinds of errors of things encountering a problem, and program won't start
I tried to start up in the x61, after turning various things turned off in msconfig (using the HD in the T61), but no change
was unable to get any of the restore points to work
it seems like this must have something to do either with a HD problem, or a driver problem.
Nothing is showing up in my event viewer, or in my device manager. i get an error about the 'interface is unknown'
ideas?

"Critical battery error" refers to a problem with the CMOS battery. Possibly needing replacement.
Try changing from AHCI to compatibility mode in the BIOS configuration. If already in compatibility mode, try the opposite.
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But every time I reboot or start up my MBP, it would just hang until I unplug the firewire to TM.
And yes, the overall boot time has at least doubled, I have 4GB RAM, MBP 2.4GH, 320GB HD (new WD) and it is VERY slow booting up.
Apple is feeling more and more like Microsoft..... I dumped Bill Gates for Steve and this is what steve gave me?

Start with these:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88338
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041221081432908

IMac 27" won't boot (after Time Machine bug?)

Hi everyone,
Firstly, I don't know if my iMac is an Intel machine or not.
I recently had my failing hard drive (seagate, I think) replaced by Apple.
I had backed up using a hard drive using Time Machine.
I attempted to restore my back up to my now fixed iMac. It failed after about 3%. I ran 'verify' in disk utility and it told me the hard drive with the back up was fine.
I tried again to get my back up onto my iMac. It failed again. Again after about 3%
Now, this is when I think I made my big mistake - I asked my computer to boot from the Mac harddrive. Does this mean I told my computer to boot from something that was only 3% installed?
Anyway, it will not boot. Lots of text pops up on the screen, it goes round and round in circles for a while. Then an icon resembling a no entry road sign pops up and it gives up.
I have tried holding down command and r both with the Mac OS X Install DVD in the optical drive and not in.
I have tried holding down 'c' with the Mac OS X Install DVD in the optical drive.
No luck.
Can anyone help please? Please tell me how I can provide further information. Take a video of what happens, perhaps?
Thank you.

Please make a Genius Appointment and take it in for service.

White screen & won't boot after Time Machine restore 10.8.2

Hello,
I know someone posted a similar issue but that it was related to a hardware failure. Mine was not a hardware failure.
Just wanted to give an FYI to anyone who may run into this issue. I recently restored my Macbook Pro from a Time Machine backup (10.8.2)
and I was getting a blank white screen at startup where the spinning line "|" would appear and then go away, and then come back, and then disappear... Over and over. Booting into single user mode resulted in the same issue.
I ended up re-installing Mountain Lion over itself and my machine booted sucessfully. Did all the software updates and I'm back at 10.8.2 again.
This is just an FYI, something for you to try if you get the same error, hope this helps someone.

Startup command-s and at the prompt type reboot
Then press return.

P35 NEO-2 FR won't boot. One beep every few seconds.

Hello, I hope someone can help me
Out of the nothing my computer crashed. There was a blue screen, but only for a split second, so I couldn’t get any information from that. After I tried to turn it back on I only got a black screen.
Messages from my PC:
One beep every few seconds. -- Means: DRAM refresh failure.
The LEDs on the board have the combination red-red-green-green. -- Means: Decompressing BIOS Image to RAM for fast booting.
Obviously I tried another RAM module. But it didn’t help. I don’t know what I should do, because I can’t even get to the BIOS. The screen just stays black.
PS: I didn’t OC or try to flash a new Bios version.
My system:
P35 NEO-2 FR, BIOS v. 1.8, S/N: 601-7345-100B0805092463
Intel Q9300
G.Skill 2 GB DDR2 PC2-6400 CL5-5-5-15 (also tried brand new Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 MHz CL5-5-5-18)
MSI N460GTX Hawk
beQuit Straight Power 600W

Okay, please have a look at this document:
http://www.ami.com/support/doc/AMIBIOS8_Checkpoint_and_Beep_Code_List_PUB.pdf
As you can see, there are two main routines going on after you hit the power-on button:
1. Bootblock Initialization
__ and __
2. POST Code
Your problem description ...
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The LEDs on the board have the combination red-red-green-green. -- Means: Decompressing BIOS Image to RAM for fast booting.
... indicates that your system halts in the first of the two main routines I just mentioned. To be more precise, it hangs at Bootblock Initialization Checkpoint D5, which is defined as follows:
Quote
Bootblock code is copied from ROM to lower system memory and control is given to it. BIOS now executes out of RAM. Copies compressed boot block code to memory in right segments. Copies BIOS from ROM to RAM for faster access. Performs main BIOS checksum and updates recovery status accordingly.
In the last two phases of this checkpoint:
Quote
Copies BIOS from ROM to RAM for faster access. Performs main BIOS checksum and updates recovery status accordingly.
The actual BIOS Code is copied into RAM and checked for integrity. When BIOS corruption is detected (=wrong BIOS checksum), the system will automatically jump into BIOS Recovery Mode (which is a sub-routine of the Bootblock Initialization routine).
Now, this brings us to the actual meaning of the beep(s) you hear:
Quote
One beep every few seconds. -- Means: DRAM refresh failure.
The BIOS Recovery mode (which is not part of the actual P.O.S.T. Routine, but a sub-routine of the Bootblick Intialization Routine) has its own set of Beep Code definitions which are described on page 15 of the document I linked you to:
Quote
Boot Block Beep Codes
Number of Beeps -- Description
1 -- No media present. (Insert diskette in floppy drive A:)
2 -- ‘AMIBOOT.ROM’ file not found in root directory of diskette in A:
3 -- Insert next diskette if multiple diskettes are used for recovery
4 -- Flash Programming successful
5 -- File read error
7 -- No Flash EPROM detected
10 -- Flash Erase error
11 -- Flash Program error
12 --‘AMIBOOT.ROM’ file size error
13 -- BIOS ROM image mismatch (file layout does not match image present in flash device)
Consequently, the meaning of that single beep, that repeats every few settings is not "DRAM refresh failure" (this would be its meaning in the P.O.S.T. Routine, but we are looking at the Recovery Routine), but it actually means:
Quote
1 -- No media present. (Insert diskette in floppy drive A:)
What you have to do is this:
1. Hook up an internal (!!) floppy drive to your mainboard
2. Prepare an AMI BIOS Recovery disk:
--> Download the latest BIOS Archive for your board from the product site
--> Extract the actual BIOS File and rename it to AMIBOOT.ROM
--> Copy the renamed BIOS File to an empty & formated floppy disk
3. Put the disk that contains the AMIBOOT.ROM file into the internal floppy drive that you connected to the mainboard.
4. Pray that the system finds the disk, reads the file on it and performs a recovery flash

PB won't boot from one specific battery

Does anyone know why a fully charged battery would not have enough juice to boot a Powerbook? I have a third party battery (Hi Capacity 4400 mAh) that will run fine once I boot from an ac adapter but I can't boot from this battery. I've tried it in different Powerbooks and I got the same result.
It used to boot fine.

Notes from System Profiler:
Battery Information:
Battery Installed: Yes
First low level warning: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 3925
Remaining Capacity (mAh): 1247
Amperage (mA): -2051
Voltage (mV): 10983
Cycle Count: 196
Coconut battery has the same data.

Media on one machine, Info on another

Hi all-
Up until recently, this worked. I don't know if it was an iTunes upgrade, or the iPhone firmware (or neither, or both).
I have my Media (Music, TV Shows, and Movies) and applications on my Mac Pro. My "work stuff" (calendars, mail accounts, contacts) on the MacBook Pro. That is how I want to sync. Up until recently, it worked.
Now, when I plug in to my MBP for the Info items, it keeps checking the other boxes for the media sections, and erases everything on the phone!
I uncheck them all, reload with the Mac Pro, then it does it again.
WHY does the laptop keep re-checking all of those options, and HOW can I get it to stop?
Even when I have the laptop set up to not sync automatically, it still has those boxes checked. If I uncheck them, it still erases the phone.
I have also tried a full restore from the Desktop.
Both machines are on the same version of iTunes (9.0.3) and OSX (10.6.2)

Well, that's what you want on the Summary Pane, nothing checked. The only things that should be checked are contacts & calendars on the Info pane. There should be no checks on any of the other tabs, regarding content. You've already reset sync history, so what I would do is try one more time, connect your phone, make sure there are no checks in any boxes on the Summary Pane, no checks on any of the content panes, check to make sure. Hit apply, when done, if a popup apperas telling you all your itunes content will be erased, click OK. Then go to your other computer, re-sync your itunes content & see if you can go back to your MBP & do just contacts & calendars. This should work, as you can sync contacts & calendars to multiple computers, itunes content to only one.

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