My p6610f is possessed!

My p6610f is just over a year old and of course out of warranty. I started having random blue screens and freezes. A friend who works in IT suggested replacing the RAM chips which I did. I also did a complete format and restore from the recovery discs I created from it when it was working. It worked perfectly for about 2 days and is now restarting at random, no blue screens, no error messages. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm about to go "Office Space" on this thing!
Thanks!

OK, here goes the latest. I did as you suggested, I ran the quick test then the extended one. Both found NO errors or problems. Then I changed the setting so it wouldn't automatically restart after crashing, it did anyway. It was restarting on it's own about every 2 minutes. It finally stayed running long enough to tell me there was a problem. I clicked on the see details and I got this.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:    BlueScreen
OS Version:    6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID:    1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode:    7f
BCP1:    0000000000000008
BCP2:    0000000080050031
BCP3:    00000000000006F8
BCP4:    FFFFF80002A74550
OS Version:    6_1_7600
Service Pack:    0_0
Product:    768_1
Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\120511-19687-01.dmp
C:\Users\V\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-40435-0.sysdata.xml
Afterwards it worked for about 10 minutes, I was surfing the net and the screen went haywire. There was a checkerboard pattern with black squares alternating with what was on the screen. The mouse, keyboard, etc would not respond. Then, I got a bluescreen which said
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL with the following at the bottom.
*** STOP: OxOOOD1
( OxFFFFF7FFC29oe26B, OxOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD1, OxOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO8, OxFFFFF7FFC29oe26B ) The "o" and the "e" could have been caps.
I have absolutely NO idea what all this means. I think I have a rather expensive doorstop. I have had PC's since 1995 and have never had anywhere near as much trouble as I've had with this POS.
I turned it off and am back on my old Compaq again. I still think an exorcism is in order.

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At a loss. Wiring a possessed house I think! Input needed

Need some help.
I know and have done a lot of networking No pro, but self taught. Did run Ethernet of my whole house (ex wife's house now ) pre wifi days. Running wires, using switches and routers. All worked. Have down a ton of wifi - all Apple gear for myself in my location, friends and family. Good to go. I currently run a bunch in my home for iPhones, computers, netflix, itunes server, Air Video for all devices. Flawless.
So I'm not a dummy at least. So……
To my dads house. My on going project for a year. Great house. Big. Hand built back in the '50's. All plaster. Well made.
1- His office - cable modem to Airport Extreme - named BASE. Across this room, one Airport express (all AX are older g units) for the stereo from computer.
Now when I try to extend this network only for him to use his iPhone with Apple Remote to control music, I have now bought 5 Airport Expresses - the signal will not carry for more than 10 feet at best in this house (it's possessed I swear). NOT KIDDING.
I put an Express 10 feet from the office to a kitchen, why because any further I get no signal connection.
From this Express another one 10 feet for a den.
But the signal is so weak it doesn't work.
The house is plaster - I guess very well plastered and who knows what metal lathering is behind the plaster? It's a ranch.
What could possibly abort wifi signal like this. Oh, I might add, no iPhones work in the house either. We're in NY.Long Island. Major ATT signal. Nada in house. Go outside no problem.
So I'm going to tackle this again this weekend. Start from scratch. Any insight? I'm asking because I'm at a loss and think I'M NUTS! LOL
What would make wifi not carry for any distance? Lot's of windows in the house too.
I'm on the verge of telling him to have cable run another wire and modem to the other side of the house.
I'm stumped. I was going to post a few times but can't imagine why I can't get this working. Feel like a dunce.
Right now he tells me it's no connection in the den. The last AX extender not 10 feet from him.
Thanks in advance.

In addition to metal, water also will cause significant reduction in signal. The higher the frequency, the worse the problem. (One of the reasons why in the past submarines needed to surface to use their radios.) Perhaps the plaster or wood is exceptionally wet or the particular plaster they used has a high metal content. You may want to try using only 2.4GHz instead of 5HGz because lower frequencies penetrate walls better. I'm grasping for straws, but I'm not sure what else you could try short of tearing down walls.
I will tell a story of one wiring job I did. My boss gave a quote and approval sight unseen. He normally didn't do this but due to various circumstances and time constraints, he took a gamble. The job was to install a DSL modem and wireless router for a doctor's office. The modem and router were in the managers office. The reception area in the next room would have two workstations about 15 feet away, connected wirelessly. The doctor's office would get one laptop connected wirelessly, about 100 feet at the other end of the building. The building was all wood construction so no one foresaw what happened next. The manager's computer was fine since it was wired. One of the wireless reception workstations was fine with full signal strength since it was a line of sight through an open doorway to the router. The other reception workstation was working but only had 50% signal strength. (Not line of sight to the router.) The doctor's laptop had zero bars. I moved the laptop next to the router and got 100% signal strength. I walked the laptop next to the workstation with line-of-sight, and still got 100%. I walked to the other reception workstation and got 50%, same as the workstation. I walked out of the reception area turned left and started to walk down the hallway to the doctor's office. I took no more than 5 steps and got zero bars! I walked back a few steps and the meter jumped to 50%. I had to do this a few times to fully convince myself. It was only a chance conversation I had with one of the nurses who recalled that the former occupant of the office was a dentist. So we surmised that the room that the router was in might have had the x-ray machine, so they would have lined the walls with lead or whatever. In any case, we ended up having to pull wires. But we learned that regardless of what it looks like on the outside... But this does sound quite similar to your experience.
There's also the time that my coworkers found that the whole wall was 1/4" steel plate. The walls were covered with drywall so we didn't know it was there until we ruined a half dozen drill bits. It seemed like it was armor plate steel. We think the building used to be a indoor gun range or something. And there was the time that we encountered hardened concrete walls at an office using a former military building. Fortunately neither of those had Wi-Fi but we likely would have had signal problems in both cases. It taught us that we can't assume and needed to do a thorough inspection ahead of time.
So while I don't think the house is possessed, I do suspect that the original builder used some funky local material. Maybe he was a conspiracy theorist and has tinfoil in all the walls.

Is there a way of finding out what has been accessed on my MacBook Pro whilst in the possession of an apple authorised service centre?

Hi Guys,
I'm a bit new to this discussion group thing although I've been using Macintosh computers for many years (showing my age).
I handed my MacBook Pro to be repaired at an authorised apple service centre. When I handed it in they said they needed to keep hold of it to run some diagnostics and requested my password. I've owned various models of mac for the the past 17 years and this is the first hardware problem I have encountered, hence I have never bothered to set up user accounts.
As I live in quite a remote part of Sweden I am paranoid that some untrusted technician is going to make a copy of my music (11,000 tracks) or share some of my personal information (scanned copies of my birth certificate, passport, certificates, photos, etc.) on the web. Is there a way of finding out what activity has taken place whilst they've had it in their possession?
I appreciate any advice you guys can offer.
Thanks!
PS: I've already thought about the 'recently opened' menu and The machine in question is a MacBook Pro 17" (2011) running OS X 10.6.8 (need Rosetta).

I am paranoid that some untrusted technician is going to make a copy of my music (11,000 tracks) or share some of my personal information (scanned copies of my birth certificate, passport, certificates, photos, etc.) on the web.
If you put your info into the computer and hand it to another, you have to assume they will copy everything.
Why are you putting scanned copies of valuable identity information into a computer than can be hacked, stolen, lost or compromised by a dirty tech?
Have you lost your mind?
Is there a way of finding out what activity has taken place whilst they've had it in their possession?
No. The tech would just deny it if he did, or tell the truth which the answer would be "NO" in either case.
The employer won't ask that sort of questions without solid proof, less they make a enemy of the employee and/or risk being sued for defamation of character.
It's not like they bother to have a team of people watching over his shoulder that he doesn't stick a USB thumb drive of your data into his pocket to take home.
I am paranoid that some untrusted technician is going to make a copy of my music (11,000 tracks)
If it's iTunes music, it has your personal ID embedded into the song files. Most IT techs know this though.
I appreciate any advice you guys can offer.
Too late now, all you can do is not worry about it.
Take your personal info out of the machine and if you need it, burn cd/dvd copies, a few USB thumb drives, Iron Keys or self encrypting external storage drives with key and/or keypad.

I have model A1458...been acting possessed.... apps opening and closing on their own...zooming in and out... not always responsive to my touch... what could be the problem?

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My ipad and ipod were both stolen from my home during a robbery. how do I unauthorize both of these without having them in my possession. I did delete the ipad from my itunes account and have changed my passwords.

My ipad and my ipod were both stolen during a robbery at our home. How can I deauthorize both of these without having them in my possession? I did delete the ipad from my itunes account.

(You may have to change your name to "unlucky girl1")
Apple (and no one else) can not assist (with serial number or iCloud) in finding a lost or stolen iPad.
Report to police along with serial number. Change all your passwords.
These links may be helpful.
How to Track and Report Stolen iPad
http://www.ipadastic.com/tutorials/how-to-track-and-report-stolen-ipad
Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2526
iCloud: Locate your device on a map
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2698
Report Stolen iPad Tips and iPad Theft Prevention
http://www.stolen-property.com/report-stolen-ipad.php
How to recover a lost or stolen iPad
http://ipadhelp.com/ipad-help/how-to-recover-a-lost-or-stolen-ipad/
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2698
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Apple Product Lost or Stolen
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Oops! iForgot My New iPad On the Plane; Now What?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303459004577362194012634000.html
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How to Find Your iPad Serial Number
http://www.ipadastic.com/tutorials/how-to-find-your-ipad-serial-number
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4061
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I have recently purchased a new lap top. Both my wife and I share our Itune music. When I purchesed the computer I was able to authorize my itunes account on it and move my purchaced music over from my iphone. However, I was not able to move my wifes music over because she has too many devices authorized under her account. Most of those computers are no longer in our possession and have been thrown out. How can she deauthorzise computer we don't have in our possession anymore without deauthorizing them all?

Authorizing deauthorizing has NO effect at all on your itunes library. You lose nothing.
You should also alwasy have a backup copy.
You MUST deauthorize all.
You have the only answer there is.

HT1420 How can I deauthorize an iTunes account for a computer I no longer possess?

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Macbook purchased in June acting possessed, not sure what else I can do.

SPECS: MacBook Pro, 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 4gb 1600MHx DDR3 RAM, 500gb HDD running OS X 10.9.4
Okay, so my family purchased me a new MacBook back in June, after my other one died after nearly 5 years. Right out of the box I had problems with it. When I first booted it up, it froze and crashed. After I finally was able to reboot it and get it up and running, it was extremely slow and would constantly freeze. I immediately contacted Apple Support. Unfortunately, I was stuck home after knee surgery and couldn't get it to the store, so they remotely checked my computer out and deemed it was "fine". Okay. They informed me about the warranty, yadda yadda.
So the problems continued, I re-contacted them and they instructed me to take it in for service as soon as I could. I had to wait a bit for my knee to heal up before I could get myself over to the mall. I went, they ran some tests and also declared everything was fine. By this point, my computer was routinely crashing, failing to start up properly, and started just doing.. strange things. They recommended I back all my photos up to an external HD (which I did), bring it back another time and have them completely wipe and reset it. Did that about 3-4 weeks ago.
I've essentially left everything alone besides putting some of my photos back on from the external HD. Not long after they reset it, it's back to doing all sorts of crazy things. I haven't even been able to use this thing besides being a thousand dollar Facebook and email machine.... try and do anything else and it crashes or freezes. I can't even use iPhoto to edit photos because it immediately locks up and I sit there for 5 minutes per photo watching the dang pinwheel go round and round. Now the computer overheats and the mousepad has become possessed. I've started recording some of the bizarre things it does, and showed them at the Apple store and just get a "hmmm..." from them... I can be sitting here watching Netflix and besides barely loading half the time, the mouse just spazzes out and goes all over the screen clicking on things. Trying to type this out is already a nightmare because the mouse just shoots all over the place, clicks on things, highlights things, erases things and goes over to the other dashboard screen... so I'm constantly having to sit here clicking ESC to come back to where I was. The brightness will change from time to time too, and the plugging in/unpluging the power adapter instantly sends the computer into a frenzy (yes, I am using the charger that came with the computer, and it is plugged into a surge protector). When I try to regain control of the mouse, it still shoots all over the place and clicks on things.
I don't know what to do. I've deleted everything, reset everything, put on a firewall, etc. I tried to boot in Safe Mode and it won't work. The computer has a mind of its own. I think there has got to be some sort of problem with the logic board, I don't know what else it could be. I find myself having to hold down the power button to shut it down because it absolutely refuses to shut down if I click on the shut down option on screen.. it pretty much just tells me NOPE.
Please help. The Apple Store/Support said there is nothing more they can do for me because my family apparently purchased it through Best Buy, so they said they don't cover things bought through 3rd party. I wasn't aware of it and not sure if I should try going through Best Buy? I am on the other side of the state from my family now, and none of them are particularly gifted with computers, so not sure if how I would get the receipt from them if that's what I need for Besy Buy, or do I just go there ? I've never dealt with Besy Buy before, but can only imagine how awful that's going to be....
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Thank you for your reply. I figured I had the one year Apple care warranty regardless, but when I expressed wanting the laptop to be replaced since it seemed defective out of the box, they told me it was pretty much my problem to go deal with Best Buy and do an exchange through them. My last MacBook really had no major issues until it died after 5 years.. very disappointed in how Apple has been handling it this time around. I have another Genius Bar appointment for this Thursday, I guess I will try yet again to see if they can make this right.

It's like my computer is possessed

Today has been a day of whirling beachballs!!!
I've done two things in the last two days that might have some bearing on my current problems. First, I added four Maxtor OneTouch 4Plus External Hard drives. Some program on the Maxtor keeps trying to sync the drives. I've thrown away every Maxtor ap I can find and it still pops up on restart and I've had to restart a ton of times today!!
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Anyway, now my OS is possessed. The problems I've had today are almost too numerous to mention! Early yesterday I tried downloading the MacBook Air tour video. 184Mb. It downloaded fine but got about 90% of the way through unzipping the file and locked up. Then Safari, the Finder and iTunes followed. Nothing would force quit either. I finally just held down the power button. A little later, while trying to work on my website Safari quit again and again it seems like half my other programs followed. After being forced to do the power button hard shutdown again I restarted. After working again for a short while the Spotlight and Find functions both quit. I couldn't search anything. Photoshop started taking seven or eight minutes to save a file!! After restarting again, all the apps, folders and stationary pads I keep in my finder window all disappeared. Later Final Cut Pro locked up (actually FCP's locked up four or five times now). I tried to force quit and the force quit didn't work. It wouldn't even come up on the screen. I'm having every restart contested by the mirror agent. I can't get my .Mac account to stop syncing and, with all the crashes I've had, there's not much for it to sync! Still, it's running constantly and won't respond to a "Cancel Sync" command.
It's like every program on my computer has gone nuts! I tried repairing permissions and the Disk Utility froze up. I've ditched my preferences on some of the programs but nothing seems to help. Everything I touch turns to mud!
Any ideas what I can try?
TIA,
Peter
Message was edited by: petemay

petemay, when I just now saw the subject line for your post, I thought you must be suffering from the same problem as me, because I too feel like my computer is possessed! And sure enough, I learn that you also just ran Software Update and installed the most recent Security Update along with other files.
See this thread of mine:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1459413&tstart=0
I too have a Seagate drive (with 4 partitions/volumes) in an external firewire enclosure, but I don't think that's part of the problem in my case (I often have it shut off, and the problem persists whether it's on or off). I am now convinced (after reading various Security Update-related posts here) that the source of the problem is the 2008-002 Security Update.
I have been getting endlessly spinning ballz whenever I attempt to save or download a file (even a tiny jpg or text-only web page). Force Quit eventually works after quarter-hours and half-hours --kinda-- but it's barely worth the pain of waiting for it to do so. The Force Quit dialog box regularly shows 3, 4, or 5 apps (usually including the Finder) "not responding."
What will it take to get Apple to fix whatever's been messed up by that **** Security Update? So far, none of these hangs has brought up the crash report dialog box, and anyway I understand that those crash reports are not read. How do we bring this to their attention?

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