I am going to throw this machine out the window! STATIC!

This static is driving me CRAZY! A little background on what is going on: I am using 2 USB microphones to record a podcast (30Something Podcast). I have recorded 11 shows without any issues on my Macbook Pro and now I am getting static on ONE of the microphones. There is not static all the time, and I have yet to see a pattern on when it happens. I thought it was due to the 10.5.2 update, so I completely wipped my machine and reinstalled leopard with 10.5.1, not 10.5.2 and reinstalled iLife08. I think I did the update to Garageband 4.1.1 after the fresh install. Set everything up again, and about 22 min into the show, static happened. Again, this is on a totally fresh machine. If I restart it, it goes away. The only thing I saw that was weird was after a while during recording, the Garageband counter (the timer) seems to come down to a crawl even though the vocals seemed to be recording. It was like the entire machine was slowing down, but nothing else was running. Again, I have recorded fine a bunch of other times without issue or changes on the machine. I looked and there are no drivers for the logitech 250 headphones, so I am at a total loss at this point. PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Many usb and firewire interfaces have had some static and audio out problems with os x updates. I have a Alesis Firewire Multimix and a M-Audio BlackBox that have between the two have experienced pretty much all the problems. I e-mailed both manufactures during these problems and they told me that they were working hard on fixes but as soon as they put up a fix Apple made more changes. They said apple was aware of the problems but need to make changes. I bought a Presonus Inspire because it was reported to work flawlessly "hardly" but it did work.
To make a long story endless in the past few months Alesis and M-Audio and Apple pushed updates that totally fixed my problems. Best thing to do is contact M-Audio with your Mac's specs and os version and see if they have or are working on a fix.

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HELP! I am about th throw this iPhone out the window!

I have had to restore my iPhone TWICE now with tech support guidence. I've has nothing but TROUBLE since both the 3.0 AND the iTunes update, and am BEYOND frustrated!!! I won't even go into all of what else went wrong previously, but now my photos will NOT show up in iTunes to sync on to phone. I have troubleshooted by reading on here...I've tried everything. Before all this trouble I had done it so I know it's not just me. The folders show, but they say 0 pictures.
Again I'm SO SO SO frustrated. A phone I LOVED and was thrilled with has been nothing but pure frustration since the 17th. Everything I do on it is nothing but a hassle and 2 hours of MY minutes with Apple techs!!! I ahve to admit I am in tears right now.
I hope I get some replies (!!!!) and thanks in advance... why will my photos not show up? Just empty folders???

OMG OMG I am so embarrassed....they DID go to the folder as PPSP files. I'm so sorry! Thank you though for taking your time on me. I will go change them all and see if that works. If not I promise i'll come back here before tossing the phone out the window Again I'm sorry...but hey, if it weren't for you I never would have checked. I don't know why it saved them like that!

About to throw this mb OUT THE WINDOW

Ok bought a new 915p combo Motherboard and it posts and does all of that just fine.
However Now I cant get it to boot Xp. And yea I know what your going to say fresh install xp
but there is another glitch I cant even get it to run my harddrive utility disk or cd.

Quote from: Grey Falcon on 20-February-05, 07:50:13
OK I got to the 1st part of the setup
Works fine up till the point of the 1st reboot then it just wants to restart back the begining again
This might seem utterly, absurdly, stupidly obvious, but in my experience sometimes obvious solutions are the most difficult to arrive at. You say it wants to start back at the beginning after the first reboot: have you either taken the CD out of the drive or changed the boot order in then bios? I’ve seen the setup program just initiate itself on the first reboot when I hadn’t even touched the keyboard (you’re supposed to get the message “press any key to setup windows” or some such) That sounds like what might be happening.

Help.. before i throw this thing out the window

I've had my macbook pro for about 2 weeks now... at first the internet was running insanely fast; you know, as it should have been. Lately, however, when i try to get online the pages wont even load, and when they do load, they load half-assed. Half the pictures don't show, only 3/4 of the text... i was wondering if anyone knew a way to fix this. If there is a way to clean the computer.. i dunno just get it running to what it was like when i first got the thing.. thanks.

Here's a few questions, some which others above have implied:
1) Click the Airport icon in the Menu bar (the icon that looks like waves spreading in a v-shape in the top right-hand corner). Are you connected to YOUR network? Sometimes your MacBook Pro may connect to another network, and that network may have a low signal strength or a slow internet connection.
2) Try using Firefox or another browser to see if the problem doesn't lie with Safari.
3) Try connecting your laptop directly to the router using an Ethernet cable. If the internet runs fine, you may have a problem with your Airport card.
4) I'm no expert to know if this will help you, but the following has helped with a few software glitches I've had. Run Disk Utility, select your Mac partition (NOT the hard drive, and be especially careful if you have a Boot Camp partition), click the First Aid tab (which it probably opened into), and click repair disk permissions (this may take several minutes). Try out Safari to see if its any faster.
I have no idea whether force quitting any application would affect internet speed. But like I said earlier, I'm no expert. You have a Mac, so you don't really NEED an anti-virus program, but if you have to or insist, the best av program would be a free one. See:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6743168&#6743168
or just search these forums for antivirus. But again, you don't really need it as many posts throughout Apple Discussions have said they cause more problems than they fix. Hope I was able to help and that your problems get solved soon. The MacBook Pro is a wonderful, powerful computer and it's a shame that your having problems with a slow connection speed.
-AHeneen

I used to use the free version of Adobe Reader to convert my publisher files to pdf files. When I was making a booklet for our hockey team, it said I had to buy it. Now I bought it and it won't convert the files. I am ready to throw this computer out the

I used to use the free version of Adobe Reader to convert my publisher files to pdf files. When I was making a booklet for our hockey team, it said I had to buy it. Now I bought it and it won't convert the files. I am ready to throw this computer out the window!! Can you tell me what is the problem? No it does not exceed 100 M. either.

Adobe Reader never converted Publisher files to PDF, for free, never. I suspect you use to have the (paid for) Adobe Acrobat. Sometimes people have Acrobat (more than $300 worth) and install Adobe Reader over the top, losing that valuable software.
That said, if you subscribed to PDF Pack it should do this conversion. What exactly happens now.

I have CS5 and a d-600. I would like to use camera raw but not working. I downloaded CR 7.3 and still not working. Do I need to upgrade to CS6 ..or just throw it all out the window and get rid of my d-600 ?

I have CS5 and a d-600. I would like to use camera raw but not working. I downloaded CR 7.3 and still not working. Do I need to upgrade to CS6 ..or just throw it all out the window and get rid of my d-600 ?

it allows you to use your cr files, Adobe - Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter : For Windows
Camera Raw: How to use Adobe DNG Converter - YouTube

Im about to throw this thing through the window!!!!!

Need some help...how do i play my songs in order?...I pressed the play button 5 times...but then it only plays my first song then suffles again?

Hi Chadillac,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
You probably should throw it out the window because you bought an iPod Shuffle (joke). Anyways, make sure your you iPod switch is in put in the "Play in Order position (2nd out of the 3). You may want to look at iPod Shuffle Tutorial. If that doesn't work, try resetting it (Knowledge Base Document #300595 on Resetting iPod shuffle.
Jon
[lightning fingers Bryan]
Mac Mini 1.42Ghz, iPod (All), Airport (Graphite & Express), G4 1.33Ghz iBook, G4 iMac 1Ghz, G3 500Mhz, iBook iMac 233Mhz, eMate, Power Mac 5400 LC, PowerBook 540c, Macintosh 128K, Apple //e, Apple //, and some more... Mac OS X (10.4.5) Moto Razr, iLife '06, SmartDisk 160Gb, Apple BT Mouse, Sight..
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PLEASE someone help me before i throw this thing out the win

edit - whew. good thing nobody saw this post. it was mean. i figured it out.. finally :\
now i just gotta figure out how to get the tracks in order!! any ideas?
Message Edited by no-sweat on 02-08-2005 07:48 AM

You could try using simple software like Tag and Rename, very usefull to sort out the tags, Creative Zens micros and Touch's all need the tracks to be proporly tagged, Album, Track, and if you do a whole album and want the tracks in the same order as they are in the album you will have to edit the title so it has a number 0, 02 ect infront of every song, easidly done with good tagging software.
HTH
JJ

Ready to throw my imac out the window!!

     I've had my iMac9,1 Intel 2 Duo 2, 2.66GHz, 4gb RAM, 600gb ROM for about two years now. It has been a dream until about two months ago. It started with my mouse malfunctioning while playing World of Warcraft. It was like the mouse buttons were stuck. At first I thought it was the battery in my optical wireless logitech mouse was dead so I would change it and that seemed to work for a bit. then changing out the battery would not work. I started restarting my computer and that seemed to work for a bit. and that stopped working so i tried all the trouble shooting ideas i could find. I checked the mouse settings i made a second user and the problems still happen on the new user profile. i installed the new drivers for logitech. I have my software updater set to daily and I am up to date.
      I've ran disk/permission verify/repair and I get to disk repair and I would fail. so i checked the fail errors and they seem to all be on the disk/permissions that can be safely ignored list. I restarted in safe mode and ran these and it went fine. I have reinstalled from my disk without wiping my machine clean and back to new.(would take about 8 hours to reinstall wow) I have over 500 gb of space left on my hd.   I don't even approach my ram limit. I've tried various restarts and deleting all unused applications. I've ran thru all the system optimizing tips that I've found. and still my computer is sucking so bad. I have pretty much gave up on warcraft because of it. and now my browsing has slowed to an unbearable pace.
     Im ready just to put it in the shop and hope they can figure out what is wrong. But it seems to work fine sometimes and im scared they will not beable to get it to malfunction to see what is really going on.
     So here is a recap of what the problem seems to be. My mouse stops tracking. the cursor will disappear like I'm holding down the button and will not reappear till i click the button a couple times. sometimes it will track just fine but will not click on anything. and sometimes it just freezes completely. It also seems to get worse when i plug in my IPhone to charge. The kicker is now the loading speed of webpages is intolerable as well.
     I am a mac lover and proud owner. I tell all my friends with PC's that they need to get a mac and all their problems will go away and now I'm so frustrated with mine that it is about to take a short flight to the ground outside my apartment building. please help

Try a PRAM reset. That wll many times resolve bluetooth issues like this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
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Captfred

HELP! Before I throw my MP560 out the window!

I purchased a MacBook Pro in August 2010, and along with it the Canon MP560. I have it setup to print wirelessly from my macbook to the printer. Everything was going great until about a month ago. I can not get it to print, an error pops into the utility, saying "A communication error has occurred." I checked my system update and according to it, all my software is up to date.
I've also been having problems that the printer will print 1-2 inches of the page (very slowly), once it even printed 3/4 of the page before stopping...then gives "A communication error has occurred. Error Number : 306 A communication error has occurred. Make sure that the printer is plugged in, powered on, and properly connected to your computer. Then try printing again." Any ideas what is going on? Of course it is connected because it prints part of the pages.
Due in part to some bad advice I've read on here I can't even get the D&*) thing to work now and I'm about to chunk it! So if you can help, STEP BY STEP for a non-computer person like me, that would be great!

First thing, don't bother looking for an Ethernet port as Star1 suggested. This model does not have one.
The 306 communication error will occur if the wireless signal strength between the printer and router or Mac and router is poor. In most cases it is the printer at fault rather than the Mac. And this would explain the portion of the page only printing, as the machine fails to keep its connection to your wireless router.
You can check the signal strength by opening Safari and selecting the Bookmark icon in the toolbar. Within the sidebar that appears in Safari you will see Bonjour. Select this and the right pane should show the MP560. Select this and Safari will open the MP560 web page. The first page will show the Signal Strength and Link Quality. If either of these are below 50% then trying moving the printer closer to your wireless router and then refreshing the MP560 home page. If moving the printer closer to the router does not improve either measured value then try turning off the printer for a minute and then back on again. Now check the values again. If the values still fail to show better than 50% then I would suggest that the wireless channel being used by your router is changed. So if this is the case then reply and we'll explain the next steps.
If the wireless signal strength and link quality are above 50% then the printer queue can be added again. To ensure you have the latest driver for this model I suggest you download and install the [Canon v2.4.1 Printer Update|http://support.apple.com/kb/DL899] from Apple. This will update the MP560 printer driver to v10.36.2.0.
With this update installed open Print & Fax and select to Add and select the Default icon. The MP560 scanner component should appear quickly, showing Bonjour Scanner in the Kind column. If you don't have the scanner installed we can add this later. With the scanner showing wait a bit and the printer component should also appear, showing canonijnetwork in the Kind column. Select this and the Print Using menu should automatically change to Canon MP560 series. Click Add when it does.
With the printer queue added you can open a document and try printing to the MP560. If it works then you can add the scanner. If it doesn't print and gives an error then please reply.

Please help before i throw my laptop out the window!!! :-)

OK, so I have been surfing the net for help/solutions but to no avail...
When I try and burn a disk from itunes on to a blank disk i get the 2131 error which judging by the ammount i have seen written about it, is VERY common.
I am about to throw my laptop out of the window as I cant fix it and am have just spend my Christmas itunes vouchers on downloads!argggggggghhhhhhhh
My cd driver is SN-S082H ATA ???? please does anyone have any ideas what i can do??????
Many thanks, in advance! Jen.

Since the issue really is not related to the focus of this forum...compatibility issues between Mac OS and Windows, you should 1. Try a different brand of discs. 2. Post your question on the iTunes forums: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=150 3. Post your question on a Windows forum such as those at http://www.windowsforums.org

Need help with Imovie before I throw my computer out the window!

Ok so I got a canon fs200 for christmas and supposidly it works great with imovie. Now when I first hooked it up it kept crashing saying "IMovie quit unexpectedly while using the Sonix SN9C201 Webcam Plugin." I do not understand why its trying to use that plugin but anyways. So I messed with it some more and thought I figured out the problem and that it was plugged into my mini stack instead of directly into the computer. So when I tried that it loaded up great and worked, now today when trying to bring in videos from the camera it has gone back to crashing with same error! This makes NO sense...it is plugged directly into the computer it comes up as its own drive on my desktop yet crashes everytime I try to bring video in. Please help me with what I can do!

Wow..I feel like a idiot..I had my webcam plugged in and totally forgot about it b/c I never use it. Unplugged that and bammo works like a charm. Thanks for makin me realize it hah

I am ready to throw my computer out the window! I loaded the latest safari to and now at random pages will freeze. I can see what is going on, but cannot type anywhere! I have to shut down safari and go back in to even attempt to do anything. Please help!

Please help! I updated safari and yes it is an older desktop, but now all of the sudden tabs I have open will freeze on me. I can see what is going on, but am unable to type anywhere on the page! I have to shut down safari and then open up a whole new window to even attempt to get it to stop! It is driving me insane not to mention I need my desktop to work properly. I beg for someone to help me with this.

Safari 4.1.3 for Tiger can be downloaded here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1069

About throw this thing out a window - please help get it working properly

Got one of this "seemingly" cool and efficient devices for Christmas, but since trying to install it's been nothing but a PITA. After clearing my playlist in hopes of wiping it clean, I changed the update option to manual in Edit > Preferences. Now the "Update iPod" option is grayed out and I'm getting this message upon opening iTunes:
"iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPod "NAME HERE". Use the iPod Software Updater application to restore the iPod to factory settings."
I've unplugged it from my computer, reset it, plugged the cable into the USB port, then connected the cable to my iPod and the problem still persists. I've also reinstalled both my iPod and iTunes. After one unsuccessful installation I got it working, then upon updating it seemed to put the songs I blatently did not want on the iPod on it. Is anyone having a similar problem and can help me get this devil's device working? It would be extremely appreciated.

Here's a few questions, some which others above have implied:
1) Click the Airport icon in the Menu bar (the icon that looks like waves spreading in a v-shape in the top right-hand corner). Are you connected to YOUR network? Sometimes your MacBook Pro may connect to another network, and that network may have a low signal strength or a slow internet connection.
2) Try using Firefox or another browser to see if the problem doesn't lie with Safari.
3) Try connecting your laptop directly to the router using an Ethernet cable. If the internet runs fine, you may have a problem with your Airport card.
4) I'm no expert to know if this will help you, but the following has helped with a few software glitches I've had. Run Disk Utility, select your Mac partition (NOT the hard drive, and be especially careful if you have a Boot Camp partition), click the First Aid tab (which it probably opened into), and click repair disk permissions (this may take several minutes). Try out Safari to see if its any faster.
I have no idea whether force quitting any application would affect internet speed. But like I said earlier, I'm no expert. You have a Mac, so you don't really NEED an anti-virus program, but if you have to or insist, the best av program would be a free one. See:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6743168&#6743168
or just search these forums for antivirus. But again, you don't really need it as many posts throughout Apple Discussions have said they cause more problems than they fix. Hope I was able to help and that your problems get solved soon. The MacBook Pro is a wonderful, powerful computer and it's a shame that your having problems with a slow connection speed.
-AHeneen

Please Help! Ready to throw my iPhone out the window!

First time posting on the forums but it's gotten to the point where my phone isn't even usable and I either need some answers or a good excuse to smash it.
So here's the story:
I got my iPhone 3G (black, 16GB) in September (I think), last year. The phone operated fine with only minor annoyances as software updates came down to fix issues, no big deal. About 10 months in, the phone starts acting up:
If you want clarification on some problem, ask. I don’t want to type out 8 paragraphs if I don’t have to, should be pretty self-explanatory.
Before OS 3:
1.) Can’t slide to answer calls. After ringing stops phone behaves normally.
2.) Doesn’t charge from wall or computer (happened randomly). Plug phone in, it says it’s charging but never charges.
3.) Can’t end calls / call doesn’t end when other line is hung up (thanks for wasting my minutes).
(these problems persist even with hard resets and full restores, including setting the phone up as a new phone rather than restoring from a backup)
After OS 3 AND full restore:
1.) Can’t slide to answer calls. After ringing stops phone behaves normally.
2.) Can’t end calls / call doesn’t end when other line is hung up (thanks for wasting my minutes).
(same as above, problems persist with hard resets and the like)
At any rate, I was home one weekend and figured I’d take the phone to the Genius bar at the Mayfair Mall Apple Store. Sounded like a good plan until I get to the mall and find the store is being renovated (seriously Apple, you can’t just put that on your site that a store is closed for some reason? Give me a break). Home is 3 hours away for me and the closest Apple store is 2.5 hours away. Awesome.
I deal with the problems for another month or so until my girlfriend and I take a trip to visit her friend in Minnesota. While there we go to the Mall of America so I decide to go to the Apple Store there (which is flappin’ giant, by the way). I explain my problems to the ‘Genius’ as well as informing him of the numerous restores/resets I’ve done both before and after the 3.0 update. He checks the phone for water damage and concludes that the headphone/dock ports are dusty which is causing the charging problem. I proceed to tell him I’ve cleaned them with compressed air before and the problems continued but he’s the ‘Genius’ so I let him do his thing and clean them again. Afterwards, he concludes (via the iPhone diagnostic software they have) that since I haven’t done a restore in about a month that I should do another one as that will likely remedy the problem. Right. Was he even listening when I explained that the problems happened before and after the 3.0 update or that I had on numerous occasions attempted to remedy the problem with hard resets and restores? Nope. My girlfriend over hears this (she is aware of the problems I was having and is a Apple-certified hardware technician at our local Mac store) and comes over to reiterate (albeit slightly more forcefully than I had initially) that the problems occur regardless of restore state or software version. The ‘Genius’ finally decides he can replace the phone after explaining to him that we are not anywhere near an Apple store and that there’s little time left in the warranty. I get my new phone set up and ready to go. Whew.
Everything is great. Phone works, no issues. Until ~2 months ago, new issues start cropping up.
OS 3.1+ (happen on all versions):
1.) Can’t sync, get “unable to complete. Phone was disconnected.” Error. (I checked around the forums and tried a few things but was unable to resolve the issue, including trying to remove the files that it kept ‘disconnecting’ on when it got to, no effect)
2.) Installing an application (be it via App Store on the phone or via sync with my desktop) results in the phone being unable to boot if turned off. When attempting to turn it back on, Apple logo shows then phone goes off after a few seconds. Only way to resolve this is by booting the phone directly to restore mode and doing a full restore.
3.) Earlier this week, my phone wouldn’t boot after having no apps (0, zero, zip, nada) on it after restoring it a few weeks back. Apple logo showed up then the spinning loading animation overlaid on the logo only to freeze. Attempted booting again and it came on (whew).
4.) Today, my phone wouldn’t boot at all, again, no apps are on or have been on the phone since I last restored it. Tried turning it off/on a few times, no good. I ended up restoring the phone again.
At first, my girlfriend was convinced that it was because I was synching with my desktop PC (obviously, blame it on the PC first), which I’ve been using since I got the phone and everything was fine until both phones randomly decided to crap out. I ended up restoring it on my MacBook Pro as a new phone just to see but the same thing happens with the apps causing it to not boot. After that we thought that it might be a single (or a few) apps that were just taking the phone down for some reason. I restored the phone with no apps and it seemed to be ok so I put 3 apps that I’ve had pretty much since they were available (and used to work without issue) back on to see. The plan was to add a few apps until the phone stopped working properly to narrow down the offending app. Just kidding! Just having those 3 apps (Beejive IM, Facebook, iDracula) causes the phone to not boot. I restore and try just Facebook. Same thing, phone doesn’t boot. Restore, try just Beejive. Same thing, phone won’t boot. By the way, the phone doesn’t boot even without me having LAUNCHED THE APPS AT ALL. Just by being on my phone it’s totally hosed.
At this point I have no idea what to do. I want to like my iPhone again but it’s terribly worthless when I have to restore it every other day and can’t use my ~$90 worth of apps (PS: even Apple’s own ‘Remote’ app brings the phone down). I really, really hate to say it but my old HTC Hermes (Windows Mobile 5/6) PDA phone was better than this (and WinMo is god-awful).
Does anyone have any suggestions? My phone is out of warranty now and I don’t have money to buy another phone even if I wanted to.
Also, I treat my phone like a baby. It hasn't been dropped a single time, been near water, or operated outside of the safe operating temp guidlines.
I'm willing to elaborate on any of the information I provided above, just let me know.
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After the restore did the phone work properly for a while? Say, a day or so?
If so it is possible you have an app that doesn't let go of memory properly. I reboot my iPhone ( hold sleep/wake and hole till you see the apple logo) every few days. This resets the memory. The iPhone OS has doesn't seem to mange memory very well yet. So a reboot will help with that. I have had my phone almost slow to a stop before I started rebooting. Always reboot after installing a new app. Also do you close all pages in Safari when you are done? This is a good practice. Safari will run in the background and use processor time and drain your battery quicker. Create a new blank page then close all others when you are done browsing for a while. I have also found that certain web site that have animated images like weather maps will turn the phone into molasses. As soon as i close that page it gets faster.
If all of the above have no effect then as Tamara said it is time for a trip to the Genius bar.
Good luck

I am going to throw this machine out the window! STATIC!

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