Having trouble booting and general usage

So I've got an intel iMac running Windows 7 Professional and 10.6 The computer will randomly stop working while I'm using either OS, just kind of freeze for a few seconds to minutes and then all of a sudden will act responsive again. So I tried reinstalling both OS' and still having trouble. Before and after the reinstalls the boot menu (holding alt) will show no drives, but will show a bootable cd if I have one in there.
I work in IT for a relatively large campus and I've seen my fair share of viruses and the like, and I don't think the problem is in software. Could there be an issue with the EFI firmware reading the disks? This doesn't seem likely as the OS X install disk will sometimes show the Hard drive in disk utility, and other times not. I'm thinking its either a loose cable, or a dying hard drive. Thoughts?

If you want to check the HD you can run Apple Hardware Test in extended mode. You can find out how at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509 If the system finds some errors please reproduce the error codes here.

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I have a mid-2010 13 inch macbook pro that has recently began to have severe problems. It started after I shut it down one night and woke up to the sound of my mac's fans running loudly and my computer running extremely hot. Apparently, it must not have finished shutting down that night and something went wrong with it when i closed the lid. Ever since then, the computer will either take a long time to boot up (the apple symbol will take up to a minute to appear, and then up to several more minutes to go to my desktop) or it will display an error (either the folder icon appears instead of the apple logo, or the apple logo appears and then after a minute or two is replaced by the circle slash). Once i'm in, the computer seems to function normally, but anytime it needs to access the disc there might be another delay, or the computer will freeze, forcing me to shut it down again. The most common time this occurs is when I am waking the mac from sleep. In addition, the cpu would run hot (~85) which would imply i was doing high cpu activity, except i was usually doing very little, activity monitor showed low levels with sudden intense spikes whenever i did something.
I've run several diagnostics to try and determine the problem, but none identified an error:
booting computer from different computer/startup disk - runs fine (apparently. gave my mac to someone else to try this test, could not see results for myself)
Thorough Apple hardware test: no problems found
disc utility: disc/discpermissions verified and repaired with no issue.
PRAM/VRAM reset: actually sped up the lagging of the system once it reached the desktop and intense cpu thing but booting problems still persisted.
archive and install: some of the time it would fail to install in the middle of the installation, forcing me to start again, but once i completed it, issue still persisted.
clean wipe of drive with restoration from time machine: computer speed better but still trouble when booting.
Clean wipe of drive without migration of data: computer running and booting quickly, but occasionally still received circle slash instead of apple logo.
At this point, i don't know where the source of the problem lies. The computer is old, but has never had an issue until recently. The problem is inconsistent, and all testing implies it doesn't exist, which makes its diagnosis extremely difficult. As it is a 2010 mac, it is clearly out of apple care and warranty so i cant go to a genius. I have a weak battery (80%) and my screen lid is a little loose from frequent use, but those are the only blatant problems i'm aware of with my mac.
Any suggestions? I can gladly provide more info as needed.

When you have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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I am Having Trouble Copy and Pasteing Local Variable in LabVIEW 2010 in s subVI.
I have a VI that has a Local Variable called "Node Addr". I can select it OK, and it appears to Copy OK, But when I go to paste it, nothing appears. It doesn't matter if I use Cntrl-C Cntrl-V or the Copy and Paste from the Edit menu, I get the same results. I tried many times and got the same results. I made sure that I had click a paste location. I can insert the Local Variable if I use the Data Communication panel.
On one of the Paste, I got an error in the error list that said that a Local Variable was not connected to anything. When I clicked on the error, it took me to an insible item in the lower right corner of the block diagram that had nothing but a select box around it. I couldn't select the invisible item, but I could delete it.
Why does the copy and paste of this local variable not work?
Why does the paste cause the insertion of an invisible item?

dbaechtel wrote:
My VI is fairly complicated. In several places in the VI, I am either reading or writing to this variable which is an numeric Indicator on the Front Panel. Using local variables seems to be the best way to handle this situation rather that using wiring all over the VI. Since the VI is mainly a State Machine and there are only 2 Writes to the local variable, I am not afraid of race conditions in this case. NO!! While you may think that using Locals is your solution to wiring, it is not! The fact that you are writing and reading, most likely from several places, will most definitely contribute to a race condition. Depending on your implemetation, you should ALWAYS use wires. The wires are the variable. If you are using a loop (While, For), then using shift registers are appropriate means for routing values so that they are used by other sections of the code, later. One thing you must respect with LabVIEW is the dataflow. That's where Locals often fail.
I am not copying the Local Variable from one VI to another.
I am not copying the Local Variable from one VI to another.
The Data Communication panel is one of the panels that shows up in the Functions pop up list when editing the Block Diagram. It is the panel that includes the Local Variable function.
I don't know if the invisible item that was inserted in my block diagram was hidden or not. All I know is that the Errors List said that it was a Local Variable and that it was not connected to anything. I couldn't select it to get more information. All I could do was delete it.
You did not address my questions about why the Copy and Paste does not work properly for my Local Variable. Maybe it's a sign from the Software Gods not to use them LOL!..
So if I understand correctly, you are trying to copy & paste the Local Variable from within the same VI. How large is your block diagram? Did you try right-click on the variable and select "Find > Local Variables"? If it's a block diagram larger than 1 single screen (which it shouldn't), then it is possible that the Local is hiding beyond the screen. You should find it as I described earlier.
See my comments in red above.

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What version of Pages?
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Having trouble downloading and installing Premiere Elements 10 from my account.

Having trouble downloading and installing Premiere Elements 10 from my account.

Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your reply.
Here’s what I downloaded from my account – PremiereElements_10LS_15_win64
I do get an error message when I double click to install:
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Please download all parts”.
When on the Adobe site there are many choices which is confusing.
Please direct me to the correct one….
I’m running Windows 8.1
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Hi Mudra,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If your fan is running and you're noticing video issues when streaming video, I'd suggest first trying to reset your system, as described in this article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1573
Reset the system
You can reset the Mac's parameter RAM and SMC.
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Hi John
iTunes Support wasn't of any use to me.
I have also been having another problem - with BBC iPlayer and other video streaming not working due to insufficient bandwidth, despite my overall download speed being consistently around 50Gb. This is also affecting AppleTV downloads
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Having trouble Audio and Video Syncing on iTune anyone know how to repair?

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If everything is pretty much in sync until 17 minutes in, do a re sync every ten minutes. This should ensure that, even if the sync drifts by a few frames over 10 mins, the video will not seem distinctly out of sync at any time.
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I am having trouble bouncing and creating an aiff file that plays back. I've checked my output settings, and although I am able to create MP3s, the aiffs are blank. The happens when I try to export a track as an aiff file - it's blank.

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I am having trouble installing and updating apps?

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Having trouble syncing and printing Outlook calendars

I use Outlook 2007 on Windows Vista and recently got an iPhone 4s. I installed iCloud and have the following problems:
1.iCloud created 3 calendars: "Calendar" ,"Calendar in iCloud", "Calendar Merge Conflicts in iCloud". They all appear to have the same entries, but some entries are "greyed out" in other calendars. The new entries I make on the PC (which automatically enter in "Calendar") don't upload to iCloud even when I click "refresh iCloud". Those entries don't sync with the iPhone. It appears that only the original group of calendar entries uploaded to iCloud. How can I get it to upload automatically?
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To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
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- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Having trouble syncing and some tunes cut off half way through play

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I've downloaded some tunes from Itunes and wanted to sync them on to my ipod only a few of the tracks are transfering and some of the tracks that I have bought only play half way and then cut off. Can anyone suggest a solution.
Regards
Jim

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- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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G5 having trouble booting, don't always get a 'chime' noise

Trouble getting my G5 1.6ghz w/10.4.x to boot/start. Seems to be intermittent as far as hearing startup chime. Any suggestion?
The first few tries to start the G5 it would make no chime, nothing on the screen. Just some quiet whirring inside
I was unable to try zapping the PRAM. Since I got no 'chime'. Then I figured I would try holding down the 'option' key to boot from an external drive and was just about to put my finger on the OPTION key, I heard the chime. I was so shocked I just watched it, but nothing else happened.
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I was going to boot from a 10.4 CD - I managed to open the CD Drive, dropped the CD in it, hit the start button and pushed the C key. Nothing.
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