Most Common Interview questions... help needed

Hello,
I have an interview coming up for a BEA WebLogic developer position. Please let me know what are the most common questions could be for WebLogic (including Portal, Integration, Workshop, and WLServer)if any one knows/or has a list or somethin....i appreciate any help
Thanks
Vishal

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Interview Question -Help needed

The below question was asked by interviewer in my yesterday Interview.
lets assume Procedure has one Sql Which returns 100 rows and working fine and after 2 days it stopped returning values what error my procedure throws and what could be the reason for this behavior
Thanks
VijayEdited by: vijay539 on May 20, 2010 2:10 PM

He doesn't provide any further information about what data the SQL is supposed to fetch and how the procedure implements it?
There could be any number of reasons for it not to display rows anymore and an exception is not the most likely one.
Data may have been changed in the database tables so they no longer fulfill the SQL query predicates and that's something that happens every day.
Now, suppose it is indeed throwing an exception. One very common cause is a change in the table structure that causes the SQL to fail due to a coded SELECT * for instance.
Another common error could be the "ORA-01555: snapshot too old", because of lack of undo size or retention. There could be a lot more though and it's really hard to guess with this little information provided, not without making huge assumptions on coding practices, implementation or business logic.

About Java 2 opaque font color question, help needed!

About Java 2 opaque font color question, help needed!
I was trying to test opaque font (the string has a foreground color and a background color), but i can't find the method for doing that.
i can change foreground by Graphics2D.setPaint(Color.black).
Anybody know how to change the background of the string?
Thanks!

Hi. The way I'd do it would be to use the font metrics to find the length of a string and draw a rectangle and then drawstring over the rectangle. If you want an example, I can post it although I suspect theres a better way.

Interview questions help

Hi friends i have some interview questions please give me good answers.thanks for advance.
1.what is info provider?what is advantages and disadvantages?
2.when your working process chains you set up 2 jobs ,one is 12 pm and anothet 3 am.when you come morning there is errors what is the first thing you do?
3.in the info provider data is loaded in serial or parallel?
4.when your working in reports there is 8 columns,but we have requirement of 10 columns how you can added it?
5.what is integrating planning in BPS?
If possible please send me good interview questions to my mail id.
takecare
bye
habeeb
[email protected]

Hi Habeeb,
Please do not post the same questions multiple times:
Some interview questions help

Some interview questions help

Hi friends i have some interview questions please give me good answers.thanks for advance.
1.what is info provider?what is advantages and disadvantages?
2.when your working process chains you set up 2 jobs ,one is 12 pm and anothet 3 am.when you come morning there is errors what is the first thing you do?
3.in the info provider data is loaded in serial or parallel?
4.when your working in reports there is 8 columns,but we have requirement of 10 columns how you can added it?
5.what is integrating planning in BPS?
If possible please send me good interview questions to my mail id.
takecare
bye
habeeb
[email protected]

Please think when you were at the beginer stage.Yes, I guess setting up a second machine under your desk and spending the next - oh I don't know - 2 months fiddling around and trying out all kinds of things is really nothing that can be asked of anyone anymore today. </sarcasm>
Mind you, my boss at the time did not find it funny that I just formatted a surplus workstation and monopolized it, but when I then took the first official training I had a whole stack of questions at the ready with which to hassle the teacher.
Now you tell me: which approach enables you to learn and understand more and better?
@rnm1978: +1!

Adobe Lightroom 4 - Some Questions / Help Needed

Hi everyone.
After advice from several experts, I've just purchased Adobe Lightroom 4. I've already got Photoshop CS5, but I was looking for something proper to organise my photos, plus I found Lightroom easier to do the sort of editing I am wanting to do. Now, I only really use photoshop for things like colour pops, or really in-depth editing. Anyway, I'm loving Lightroom so far, but there is some stuff I'm not very sure of, so I'd appreciate some help
1. Organising
Firstly, I'm not really sure how to organise. At the moment, I've just got lots of folders with random events in My Pictures on W7, so I might have a folder called April 11, which contains photos from that month but that might have been a wedding or an easter holiday or both. So it doesn't really work. \
I understand in Lightroom what catalogs are. But I know enough to know that I don't want to group mine into those, its getting too complicated. What I don't know though is the difference between a collection and a folder. Basically, I'm wanting to reimport and reorganise all my photos, so I want to put them into "events" as such like you can do on iPhoto on a mac, so I would have "France Summer Holiday 11" for example, or "Mia's Wedding". I'm not really sure on the best way to do this ...?
2. Editing
I've played around quite a bit so far, and I really like what I've seen. On a lot of photos, I've made a lot of changes. But from what I can see, these changes are stored merely in Lightroom itself. For example, at the moment I'm importing photos from my external disk into Lightroom, which then saves them in C://My Pictures/Lightroom/Pictures . When I go look at these photos in windows explorer which I know I have edited, it doesn't show any of the changes or editing I've done on them. Now I realise this is me being stupid, but why doesn't it? Supposing I then want to email that photo to a friend that I have edited? How would I do that? I don't want to have to open lightroom and export every single photo I edit? There must be a simpler way?
Likewise for backing up, because all my files are in subfolders within C:// My pictures / Lightroom / Pictures, to back up I was simply going to set up windows to copy that latter folder onto my external HDD everytime I plugged it in. This would be pointless however if it isn't physically overwriting the original photo with my edited version?
3. Editing 2
Something else I like to do is make lots of different edits to the same photo. For example, at the moment I'm editing a photo of a pier at night. I spent ages adjusting colours and lighting and so on, and now it looks great. But I would also like to save a copy of that photo with the "old age photo" effect preset on. Is this possible? and how do I do it? Other than obviously importing a duplicate?
4. & 5. & 6 - Misc:
4. Simple question - how do I add tags, keywords or comments if I haven't done it on import?
5. My camera doesn't have built in GPS. Is it possible for me to manually geotag photos (in a batch, say for a Summer Holiday to NY), could I manually add a geotag for all these photos?
6. I also forgot to add copyright information on import for some, is it possible to do this after import and how?
7. I normally shoot in JPEG. I probably shoot shoot in RAW as everyone tells me to do so. Are there any significant advantages in terms of quality, and for editing with?
Thanks for any help given. I appreciate this is a lot of questions, but I could really use the advice.

Hi William,
1. Organising
Firstly, I'm not really sure how to organise. At the moment, I've just got lots of folders with random events in My Pictures on W7, so I might have a folder called April 11, which contains photos from that month but that might have been a wedding or an easter holiday or both. So it doesn't really work. \
I understand in Lightroom what catalogs are. But I know enough to know that I don't want to group mine into those, its getting too complicated. What I don't know though is the difference between a collection and a folder. Basically, I'm wanting to reimport and reorganise all my photos, so I want to put them into "events" as such like you can do on iPhoto on a mac, so I would have "France Summer Holiday 11" for example, or "Mia's Wedding". I'm not really sure on the best way to do this ...?
I am not so sure if you understand *catalogs*.
You need a catalog, exactly 1 in my opinion. A catalog is a database. The Lightroom database, where records about your images are stored, including the pointers to your images, which are not inside a catalog! LR backups just does the backup of the catalog (i.e. a file ending .lrcat). You need to take care separately that your real images are backed up !
Inside your LR database the best way to organize is via collections - this will give you what you want with "France summer holiday 11" etc.
Folders are relatively unimportant, just storage buckets. They should be *handy portions*, I would prefer them with below 3000 images each, as there currently some bugs to those bigger ones.
Before you start with LR, you can organize your pictures in Mac Finder / WindowsExplorer.
Or you could do it with the help of LR, by copying your images over during import into the destination folders (and deleting today's folders afterwards after having verified that everything is fine).
A simple date-based structure will do, I'd recommend a root parent folder like "LR images", underneath one folder per year (\2010\, \2011\, \2012\...) and underneath them either
just one folder per month (LR can auto-create them for you)
or you create the folders in import dialog as e.g. "YYYY-MM-DD description of shoot", to have a mini-diary overview also in your OS.
Apart from that you create collections, either *dumb ones*, where you drag images into, or smart ones, where you specify criteria according to which they get auto-filled.
2. Editing
I've played around quite a bit so far, and I really like what I've seen. On a lot of photos, I've made a lot of changes. But from what I can see, these changes are stored merely in Lightroom itself. For example, at the moment I'm importing photos from my external disk into Lightroom, which then saves them in C://My Pictures/Lightroom/Pictures . When I go look at these photos in windows explorer which I know I have edited, it doesn't show any of the changes or editing I've done on them. Now I realise this is me being stupid, but why doesn't it? Supposing I then want to email that photo to a friend that I have edited? How would I do that? I don't want to have to open lightroom and export every single photo I edit? There must be a simpler way?
Likewise for backing up, because all my files are in subfolders within C:// My pictures / Lightroom / Pictures, to back up I was simply going to set up windows to copy that latter folder onto my external HDD everytime I plugged it in. This would be pointless however if it isn't physically overwriting the original photo with my edited version?
LR will never overwrite your original photos.
You can save most of the catalog content into the xmp-part of the original photo, which is either a sidecar-file (.xmp) or part of the file format, like for DNG, TIFF, PSD, JPG. To do so you select the image in LR and hit <ctrl> s. Or you set it up for continuous update, which creates a lot of operations while you play back and forth in develop.
I do that on my own, typically twice per file: once I am done with develop, once I am done with keywording and other metadata update.
LR contains records about your images, i.e. a set of instructions how they are to be interpreted. That is all.
So of course you need LR to export the result of these instructions, which is actually pretty quick.
To backup your images you need to do that just once, plus you backup your LR catalog. Or if you save xmp to the files, you can do another backup once xmp is ready.
I would not consider this pointless. You just have to think that there are 2 places with data for your images: the images themselves and a database with interpretation instructions.
3. Editing 2
Something else I like to do is make lots of different edits to the same photo. For example, at the moment I'm editing a photo of a pier at night. I spent ages adjusting colours and lighting and so on, and now it looks great. But I would also like to save a copy of that photo with the "old age photo" effect preset on. Is this possible? and how do I do it? Other than obviously importing a duplicate?
Yes, this is one of LR's beauties: you create a so-called *virtual copy*, which is just a 2nd record for the same original image file with different interpretation settings, like black-and-white, a different crop size, different development etc. You can have as many virtual copies as you like, and you'll see them as additional thumbnails.
Virtual copies are not saveable into xmp, though. There is another concept which is saveable into xmp: snapshots. but these are different states in develop history, and you do not see outside develop module that you have several.
If you export virtual copies e.g. to jpg one file per virutal copy will be created.
4. & 5. & 6 - Misc:
4. Simple question - how do I add tags, keywords or comments if I haven't done it on import?
5. My camera doesn't have built in GPS. Is it possible for me to manually geotag photos (in a batch, say for a Summer Holiday to NY), could I manually add a geotag for all these photos?
6. I also forgot to add copyright information on import for some, is it possible to do this after import and how?
7. I normally shoot in JPEG. I probably shoot shoot in RAW as everyone tells me to do so. Are there any significant advantages in terms of quality, and for editing with?
Thanks for any help given. I appreciate this is a lot of questions, but I could really use the advice.
ad 4: you use the library module, metadata panel to enter.
ad 5: you use the map module. Either you manually drop your images on a map, or you have a separate GPS track to load and have LR assign via matching time-stamps.
ad 6: like 4
ad 7: You don't need JPG from your camera, you can achieve better results viy LR from RAW. Yes, there are significant advantages as to editing headroom.
Overall, may I suggest my favorite learning material for LR? First watch Julieanne's Tutorial Videos.
Then go play and use Victoria Bampton's eBook or paper copy of her "Missing FAQs to LR4": http://www.lightroomqueen.com/books/adobe-lightroom-4-missing-faq/
Have fun,
Cornelia

Few Questions (Help Needed)

Hi,
I had few questions regarding captivate 4. If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it:
1) I created an eLearning project and it has some quiz sildes in them. So how do I collect the scores of the users who will go though that eLearning? ( I googled it but in most of the webpages they say just put a tick on report answers and also in the preferences enable reporting for this project) I tried using that but can`t see how to fetch the score for each users.
2) In the same eLearning I want to get feedback from the users who watch the eLearning. So basically I want a slide in which users can type in their feedback and then when they hit the submit button that feedback should be sent to a specific email. ( For this I tried using text box entry but all the text we enter in that comes in one line, we can`t press enter to change lines, also in the button I assign it to send an email to my lotus notes email id, but when I preview the project and click the button, it opens my lotus notes and it does not fetches what I have entered in the text box)
http://stevehoward999.wordpress.com/about/#comment-270

Hi there
You need to be investigating another piece of software that works in conjunction with applications like Adobe Captivate. Generically it is known as a LMS (Learning Management System).
There are tons of them out there. You might begin by looking at the link below:
Click here to view
Cheers... Rick
Helpful and Handy Links
Captivate Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form
Adobe Certified Captivate Training
SorcererStone Blog
Captivate eBooks

SAP MM questions- help needed

Please can I get an expert's help in findig a solution to the following questions:
1 To view the most up to date planning data (available stock, orders, reservations, etc.) on a material, use the:
(more than one answer can be correct)
A Stock Overview report.
B List display of material and accounting documents.
C MRP list.
D Stock Requirement list.
E Standard Analysis for a material
2 A material forecast can be used by the following MRP types:
(Only one answer is correct)
A Manual Reorder point planning.
B Automatic reorder point planning.
C Forecast based planning.check
D Time phased planning.
E Storage location MRP
3 Materials planning can be set to automatically generate:
(more than one answer can be correct)
A Contracts.
B Purchase Requisitions.
C Purchase Orders.
D Planned Orders.
E Delivery Schedules.
4 The following are lot sizing rules available for SAP R/3:
(more than one answer can be correct)
A Fixed lot size.
B Replenish to maximum stock level.
C Weekly lot size.
D Daily lot size.
E Economic order quantity.
5 Which of the following apply to Purchase Orders?
(more than one answer can be correct)
A The vendor must be specified in the Purchase Order Header.
B All materials on a purchase order must be procured through the same purchasing group.
C All materials on a purchase order must be of the same material group.
D Discounts and surcharges can be maintained in the document header.
E Discounts and surcharges can be maintained at line item level.
6 Which of the following is an Account Assignment category?
(more than one answer can be correct)
A Material Group.
B Purchase Requisition.
C Sales Order.
D Release Code.
E G/L Account
7 Which of the following are Item Categories?
(more than one answer can be correct)
A Consignment.
B Service.
C Manufacturing.
D Cost Centre.
E Subcontracting.
8. Which of the following documents can be subject to release (approval) procedure?
(more than one answer can be correct)
A Planned Order.
B Purchase Requisition.
C Scheduling Agreement.
D Purchase Order.
E RFQ.
9 In Source lists the following can be sources of supply:
(more than one answer can be correct)
A Vendor.
B Contract.
C Scheduling Agreement.
D Quotation.
E Quota Arrangement.
10 Which of the following document types can appear in the purchase order history for a purchase order line item?
(more than one answer can be correct)
A Another purchase order.
B A goods receipt material document.
C A service entry sheet.
D An invoice.
E A release procedure.
11. Which of the following stock types can be counted through Physical Inventory procedure?
(more than one answer can be correct)
A Unrestricted use stock.
B Block stock.
C Quality Inspection stock.
D Vendor consignment stock.
E In-transit stock.
12 Which of the following cab possibly influence the valuation price of a moving average priced material?
(more than one answer can be correct)
A Goods receipt for a purchase order.
B Goods Issue to a cost centre.
C Invoice verification against a purchase order.
D Stock transfer between two storage locations in the same plant.
E Transfer posting from unrestricted use stock to quality inspection.
13. In the SAP system a user can operate in the following hierarchies.
(more than one answer can be correct)
A Service level.
B Application level.
C Main menu level.
D Month.
E Total stock value.
14 Your planning department is using a Forecast Model for materials planning. It has been established that while demand for the particular material is projected to increase steadily as market share is increased, the fluctuating tourist demand will affect the overall requirements. Which forecast model will best address this requirement?
(Only one answer is correct)
A The Constant model.
B The Constant trend model.
C The Seasonal trend model.
D The Fluctuating trend model.
E The Seasonal model.
15. In the SAP system, the reference document used in the purchasing cycle is the:
(Only one answer is correct)
A Purchase requisition.
B Info record.
C Source list.
D Purchase Order.
E None of the above.
True / False
16 What purpose does invoice verification serve in materials management?
a It allows invoice that do not originate in materials procurement to be processed.
b Completes the materials procurement process
c Handles the payment
d Allows credit memos to be processed
e Handles the analyses of invoices.
17 What are the tasks of invoice verification?
a Entering invoices and credit memos received.
b Checking the accuracy of invoices
c Executing the account posting resulting from invoice
d Updating open items and material prices
e Checking invoices that were blocked.
18 What is the process of invoice verification?
a Purchase order, service or GR referenced for incoming invoice.
b Invoice items suggested by the system against referenced document
c Corresponding automatic account postings carried out.
d Payment proposal list for vendor generated.
19 From where does the system pick the default quantity of an item when you post invoice receipt?
a Invoice
b Purchase order
c Purchase order history
d System settings
e Vendor master
20 During invoice verification the system picks the rate at which tax is calculated from the vendor master record.
TRUE
FALSE
Regards
VS

Hi Vishal,
Here are the answers.
1. C, D
2. C
3. B, D, E
4. A,B,C,D
5. A, B, D, E
6. C
7. A, B, E
8. B, C, D, E
9. A, B, C
10. B, C, D
11. A, B, C
12. A, C
13. E
14. A
15. A
True / False
16. B, C, D, E
17. A, B, C, E
18. A, B, D
19. C
20. False
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Viswanath

Stupid Java Question (Help Needed!!!)

I have a piece of Java Code that dynamically builds a SQL statement (including VARCHAR2 columns). Oracle gives an error if my string has a single quote in it. I need to replace each single quote with two single quotes in Java, i.e. I need a Java equivalent of PL/SQL REPLACE function.
Java str.replace only replaces an individual character (see below).
String l_str = "O'Hara";
String l_str2 = l_str.replace('\'', '\'');
I need to replace "O'Hara" with "O''Hara". Any help is appreciated

Please don't post same question on both forums.
Please find the answer at:
Re: ORA-09004

Beginner Question - Help Needed for EJB QL Sample Application

I'm working with a group of student interns, like myself, and we've been given an assignment to work with Oracle. All of us have no training or experience with this, so we're just learning as we go.
I've been trying to run the EJB QL Sample Application (http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/java/ejb_corba/ejbql/Install.html), but I keep running into problems at step 3.
Now, we will deploy the sample application onto OC4J. Open another command prompt and go to the folder <OC4J_HOME>/j2ee/home and run the following commands one-by-one
> java -jar admin.jar ormi://<machine_name>:<admin_port> admin <admin_pwd> -deploy -file <SAMPLE_HOME>/build/ejbql.ear -deploymentName Ejbql
> java -jar admin.jar ormi://<machine_name>:<admin_port> admin <admin_pwd> -bindWebApp Ejbql ejbql-war http-web-site /ejbql
where,
<machine_name>      Name of the machine where OC4J Server is running
<admin_port>      Admin Port on which the OC4J server listens. This value by default is 23791 unless explicitly changed by the user
<admin_pwd>      Adminstrator password to access OC4J. The default value is welcome
When I do this step I get this error:
Error: Unable to find java:comp/ServerAdministrator: Lookup error: javax.naming.
AuthenticationException: Invalid username/password for default (sds); nested exc
eption is:
javax.naming.AuthenticationException: Invalid username/password for defa
ult (sds)
com.evermind.client.orion.AdminCommandException: Unable to find java:comp/Server
Administrator: Lookup error: javax.naming.AuthenticationException: Invalid usern
ame/password for default (sds); nested exception is:
javax.naming.AuthenticationException: Invalid username/password for defa
ult (sds)
at com.evermind.client.orion.Oc4jAdminConsole.executeCommand(Oc4jAdminCo
nsole.java:105)
at com.evermind.client.orion.Oc4jAdminConsole.main(Oc4jAdminConsole.java
:27)
javax.naming.NamingException: Lookup error: javax.naming.AuthenticationException
: Invalid username/password for default (sds); nested exception is:
javax.naming.AuthenticationException: Invalid username/password for defa
ult (sds) [Root exception is javax.naming.AuthenticationException: Invalid usern
ame/password for default (sds)]
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIContext.lookup(RMIContext.java:153)
at com.evermind.client.orion.Oc4jAdminConsole.executeCommand(Oc4jAdminCo
nsole.java:102)
at com.evermind.client.orion.Oc4jAdminConsole.main(Oc4jAdminConsole.java
:27)
Caused by: javax.naming.AuthenticationException: Invalid username/password for d
efault (sds)
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIConnection.connect(RMIConnection.java:2410
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIConnection.connect(RMIConnection.java:2226
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIConnection.lookup(RMIConnection.java:1692)
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIServer.lookup(RMIServer.java:727)
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIContext.lookup(RMIContext.java:134)
... 2 more
---- Embedded exception
javax.naming.AuthenticationException: Invalid username/password for default (sds
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIConnection.connect(RMIConnection.java:2410
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIConnection.connect(RMIConnection.java:2226
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIConnection.lookup(RMIConnection.java:1692)
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIServer.lookup(RMIServer.java:727)
at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIContext.lookup(RMIContext.java:134)
at com.evermind.client.orion.Oc4jAdminConsole.executeCommand(Oc4jAdminCo
nsole.java:102)
at com.evermind.client.orion.Oc4jAdminConsole.main(Oc4jAdminConsole.java
:27)
Any suggestions to fix this error?
Thanks in advance for any help.

George,
The Readme.html file is available with the ejbqlsample.jar downloadable (Extract and find the doc in Ejbql\docs\Readme.html) which is printable.
Or,
If you are trying to print the file directly from OTN site, you need to set the Page-Setup Orientation to 'Landscape'.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Pushkala

RAC issues and mostly asked Interview questions

Hi Gurus,
It would be great if someone shares some RAC issues and mostly asked questions.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
You can also refer to the following note.
RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (Platform Independent) (Doc ID 810394.1)
It has references to many useful information.
Thank you.

Re : Most commonly asked question in intervew As an Oracle DBA

Hi All,
Can U guys send me popular Question asked by an interviewer for Oracle DBA.
Can u send the questions asked to you for DBA
Thanks
Avishesh

For example:
http://www.oraclepower.com/WebPortal/webportal?aid=sp&pg=/pages/hiringquestions.htm

File Compression Questions/Help Needed

Question, I have just completed an audio presentation project (audio book on CD) for a client (681 mgs) which I now need to have replicated 1500 times over. The problem is my outsourced replicator will only press cd's up to 650 mgs. Therefore, I need to figure out how to compress the presentation just slightly (as to not lose tone quality) to get in onto the disc. (The CD Rom will be played in the car or computer Cd players)
I used the Soundtrack 1.2 to complete the project and also have Quicktime pro, however, I'm not sure what to do and how to change the settings to get the compression correct.
Thanks

Is it something you can simply save as an .aif file, then import it into iTunes and then compress it to mp3 at, say, 256 Kbps? That's pretty good... but if you're looking for better... perhaps an mp2? Not easy to find an mpeg1 layer 2 compression utility, but I use Sound Converter:
http://www.dekorte.com/projects/shareware/SoundConverter/
It's a start...
CP

OAF page customization question - help needed urgently!

Hi,
To minimize customizations on an OAF page we are trying to handle some validations at the databse layer using a db trigger. The flow is that when the user hits Save on an OAF page and a certain column in a table is updated by the EO, a db trigger set on this column will fire off. Based upon whether the validation went through or not the db trigger might fail
with an error message. Question is will this message be displayed on the UI without any customizations so that the user knows what happened or will the OAF page just throw a null pointer exception? Also since OAF is writing directly to DB using an EO, will it be too late by the time the trigger kicks in and validates stuff and then based on if there was an error it rollsback the data? Can we rollback the entire transaction or not?
Please help!

Adding to Mukul's reply, yes if you are using OAF, let all the control be through the OAF. In your case any error in the DB will be sent back to the user in a very raw way which surely will annoy any user. Also we cann't comment on the rollback status.
My suggestion is to make use of a callable statement and call a wrapper pl/sql procedure which does all the validations for you (in case you have varied and complex validations) and returns a true or false based on which you can commit the transaction.
--Shiv

New Kernal Panic question - Help needed desperate!

Hi All,
This is the first time I have used the Forum and am hoping that someone can help. I'm having a huge issue with my iMac G5. I had iTunes playing two days ago and no other programmes open at the time. I left my desk for no more the 10 minutes and when I returned I had a message in four languages telling me to restart my computer. I have tried this but now when I try to turn on my iMac, the only screen I get now is the kernal panic and then the fans kick in really loud. Now comes the part where you sit there and shake your head at me! I have read that I should press the option key when turning the iMac back on, the only problem is, I don't know which is the option key!! If someone could let me know it would be much appreciated. Also any other advise would be great as I have no idea what to do.

Hi RYork,
Which model of iMac G5 do you have? Is it:
a) one of the original iMac G5's, sold new up til the beginninhg of May 2005,
b) one of the "ALS" models , with a little "light sensor" bump on the back of the grill on the bottom edge of the computer, an inchor two to the right of the big "Apple" Logo, sold between late April and October, 2005, or
c) one of the later models with a built in iSight camera, sold after October 12th, 2005?
THe first step here ideally involves resetting the SMU of the computer. The process differs depending on the model that you have. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301733 for the two later models and dot point 2, paragraph 9 of http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300908 for the more complicated process for the original "first generation" model .
You should disconnect all peripherals other than your keyboard and mouse when troubleshooting this sort of problem. USB hubs and USB ADSL routers are particularly common causes of problems, so make sure you lose both of these especially hwile trying to find the problem. As you have indicated that you are suspicious of your keyboard you may even want to try restarting with it disconnected , too, after trying the SMU reset.
The option key is called the "alt" in the UK. Using this is only going to help if you have a second disc with an operating system to start from though. This could be the iMac G5 DVD that came with your computer, or an external firewire drive with a system installed on it.
If your computer is one of the "first generation" models mentioned above it is quite possible that you have a serious hardware problem. There is an "extension repair" program in place for these computers, even if they are out of warranty, because of the well known hardware problems, so check the details of the program at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302181 .
You say that your husband has a laptop, but you don't say whether it is an Apple or not. If it is then it may be possible to undertake some further troubleshooting using something called "Target Disk Mode", so let us know what it is.
But this keyboard has me worried first of all. If an SMU reset doesn't solve the problem, then disconnect EVERYTHING and see if the computer will now start up before going further down the troubleshooting path.
Cheers
Rod

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