Mysterious shutdown f700

My Compaq F700 died so I installed a new motherboard (not used, brand new). I used the original 2.0GHz AMD processor, but I am having two problems. 1) When I turn the laptop on, it asks me to remove my wireless card because it is not supported. It's the stock card. 2) It only stays on for 10 minutes then shuts down. It doesn't appear to be running hot. When I installed the new motherboard I also installed copper shims on the CPU and GPU and I'm using a cooling pad under the laptop. The internal fan is also functioning properly. The second problem is my biggest concern. This laptop should be running fine but I can't even install the OS because it shuts down.

I'd suggest nuking the KN preference plist file and see if that works. If not, I would uninstall KN (and its preferences) and reinstall.

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Our C150 running 6.4.0-273 switched off on its own today, and we have no idea why. When we switched it back on again, it worked fine and so far no problems. It's been running perfectly normal for a long time (many months) and we've never had this problem before.
Is there a logfile we can check somewhere that could indicate the cause of the shutdown?
Thanks.

Might this be caused by an incidenticaly pressing of the power button on the appliance?
Customer support said that:
After looking through your support request and looking through the system via remote access, the only thing we found was a process that locked up and caused the reboot. This should not happen often at all. Please keep an eye on the system and let us know if it reboots unexpectedly again.
I emailed them back saying that whatever did it caused a shutdown and not a reboot, and asking if that is normal.

Mysterious shutdowns on Lenovo 3000 N100

I have a Lenovo 3000 N100 laptop around two years old. Half a year ago its battery when dead, and I've been running on AC power since. However, that doesn't seem to be enough anymore.
The computer has begun to shut down randomly for no apparent reason - sometimes during boot, sometimes after a couple of minutes, sometimes after several hours or more.
I'm using Ubuntu as my operating system after Windows went haywire, and haven't experienced any trouble with it so far.
Ideas, anybody?

Exactly same here...............solution?
I run lenovo n100 on ac power.If battery is inserted it is detected but shows not charging on windows 7.
After few minutes the laptop switches off without any indication within a second. And then if I switch on again with/without battery same thing repeats. To over come that I hav to Restore the system in Safe mode.
So we can conclude there is no Hardware problem.

Mysterious Shutdowns.

For the second time, my Imac shut down out of nowhere. It happened last night, and again today. The shut downs were abrupt and a little startling. Both times I was doing stuff I normally do. Running a few applications and listening to itunes. I have no clue as to why this is happening, and when I used the search to look for evidence of kernel panic, I found none.
Does anyone know what could be causing this? I'm in the process of backing up my info because I'm afraid that the next time could be the last! I felt around the dome and while it is warm from use, the fan does run and it's not scorching. The monitor seems to be average in temperature, but a little warm on the right side. Other than that, everything appears normal.

Thank you so much! As it turns out, it was a weird problem with the power strip I was using. For some reason, there was a short and that's why it was just zonking out.
But thanks bunches!

Mysterious Shutdown During Overnight Render

Hello all,
My Mac Pro (Running 10.5.8) eventually shuts down when I set my energy saver like this: the display is set to sleep within 1 minute and the computer is set to "never" sleep. I do this whenever I render out a big file. (Cinema 4D12 is what I was running overnight when it happened last) Fortunately the next morning my render had already completed successfully, but I had to hit the power button on the tower once to boot up again. When I logged in, there was no evidence of a crash (i.e. error messages)
Obviously sometime after the render was complete, the system decided it was time to shut down. Has anyone else seen this before? If I do a long render overnight, is there a better way I should be setting up my system or prefs?
As always, any help is appreciated - Thank you!
A

Use SmcFanControl 2.2.x www.macupdate.com
the defaults are too low and system gets hot first, then the fans have to work to try to catch up to expell heat, which is very inefficient.
they are designed for running quiet.
Common to have defaults (499 and 599 rpm, very very low) which is what the SMC and OS run the fans at.
To keep FBDIMMs etc cool, and still quiet, 800-900 rpm
And if you know you will be cranking it out for any reason, switch to a higher profile like 1200 or even 1500 rpm.
Been doing so for 5 yrs, RAM will perform and last longer without added stress of heat, and it is heating up / cooling down cycles that stress, wear and cause fatigue and issues. Same for disk drives.
Nehalem / Westmere processors can jump 10-20*C in 1/10th of a second just from asking them to do anything, and they can run up to 80*C. More than 80 is not a good stable running temp but that is where and what people do to test their system's abilty and over-clocking skills. 65-75*C for cpu is perfectly fine, while anything under 45*C for idle or low workload.
Hardware Monitor would be my #1 thermal and system monitoring
iStatPro is popular
Temperature Monitor is free version of HM above and lacks abilty to alert and such if you set an alarm for a sensor reading threshold.
Don't over do background monitoring. Less is better and they do interfere. A perfect workstation runs as little non-essentials.
An audio bug in 2009 chipset Mac Pro was serious issue. It was patched by the OS, fixed in the next editions, but was never 'back fixed" to 10.5.8, so any user that wanted the fix had to upgrade to 10.6. not all apps were SL compliant. 2010 model is the result of all the learning and hard knocks I guess.
There are always bugs. Some known. Some waiting to be found. Some so rare they just hide.
If you know you will be rendering, it is also quite possible to have a special configured boot OS optimized just for that, rather than "general purpose" setup. Lean, mean, stable.
Start with a clone. Or start with a clean install. Test your setups.
Some people have extra drive sleds for such, they cost around $25 for those metal trays.
That is how I would go at it.

Dropbox, mail, and other apps having problems after 10.8.2 upgrade

Here are a few of the symptons that I have experienced-
Dropbox came up with a relink request and said the folder had been moved
Mail shuts down suddenly
Chrom shuts down suddenly and when I re open, the restore banner shows and then disappears
within Chrom, the recently closed tabs in HISTORY does not show the tabs that were up when the mysterious shutdowns occur.
comments please!

Have you tried starting in Safe Mode and see if the problems still occur?
Restart holding the "shift" key.
(Expect it to take longer to start this way because it runs a directory check first.)

CS3 stopped working on two imac's

Hi I really need an Adobe CS3 expert and a Mac expert's help. I have been troubleshooting two days without luck. I have been in the forum trying to solve the mystery shutdown of my CS3 software. I have an imac 2006 with Snow leopard 10.6.8.
details:
       Model Identifier:          iMac8,1
       Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
       Processor Speed:          2.8 GHz
       Number Of Processors:          1
       Total Number Of Cores:          2
       L2 Cache:          6 MB
       Memory:          2 GB
       Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
My daughters also have an imac (newer like 2010) and since I have two educational edition's of Adobe CS3 One is WEB the other is Design Premium. At one time I had both installed on mine, then put Design Standard on my girls computer to let my artistic 17 year ols use Photosshop for school.
Everything has been working great untill two days ago, while in Photoshop on my computer, no error message has been seen.
It stopped working, the cursor became a pin head, and all options grayed and must force quit to close. Dreamweaver, Illustrator and InDesign are also no longer responding, all options grayed, and no when you open any of these a blank box pops up titled Adobe Creavtive Suite 3 Web Premium that only has a yellow reduce function on it, or on my kids mac the box says Design STD.
First I installed istat pro, thinking its a memory thing. (and it still might be, but I dont fully know what to do. istat pro said I have 195 GB left, so I made room - After uninstalling the CS3 I had about 203GB on my hard drive before I reinstalled. )
I tried to reinstall, also uninstall and reinstalled. Repeated uninstall/ reinstall with cc cleaning, re booting after each step.
I called Adobe thinking they cut me off, since ironically both computers are doing the same thing! They said they wouldnt do that. I never registered my products but have both products theS#. The person who I spoke to entered in my S3's yesterday. She said reinstalling should work.
When I reinstall I am not asked for Serial numbers.
Last night I uninstalled, cleaned, and then restored software from Monday. Same thing is happening. AGH!
If was was making a living using these software products I would sign up to use the new CC. but because I am in the learning stage, I just want my CS3 back.
Looking for a saving grace. Thanks for your help!
Catherine
Message was edited by: Catgus

Thank you SO much!
(and last night the Adobe support took my Serial numbers, so I hope that can't bite me in the butt somehow).
The thread you directed me to still worked and you have made my day.
So very grateful!
HappyThanksgiving to you!

IMac shuts down intermittently

I know this is already a topic but I'm posting it because (a) nobody seems to know why it's happening, (b) the suggested causes, such as overheating, not using heat paste etc do not apply in my case and (c) the mysterious shutdowns are happening at the same time as another problem, which is that my WD Thunderbolt Duo drive keeps disappearing from the desktop and I can't help wondering whether there's a connection somewhere there, or in fact a lack of connection.
My iMac is a month old, as is the thunderbolt cable and the thunderbolt drive. The thunderbelt drive is my Time Machine drive and I keep getting messages to tell me it can't be backed up. At the moment there's no sign of it on the desktop and time machine tells me that the back up is delayed, but when I look at the "About this Mac" and select thunderbolt it tells me the drive is connected and gives me its details. What's happening? Can there be loose connections that are affecting the power supply and the thunderbolt socket?

Have you called AppleCare, using your free 90-day support? They maybe best placed to help solve the problem and you should not be having to troubleshoot anything. That said, it is possible that there may be some incompatible software causing the problems.
When the machine shuts down is it a kernel panic - screen goes dark and you are presented with a multi-language box telling you to restart. If so, post the panic log on here and someone may have some ideas:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2546
You could also run the free EtreCheck and post the contents of its report on here. I'm not an expert at spotting possible causes of problems, but there are plenty here who are:
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Separately, although I haven't followed the info closely, there have been many reports about problems with WD drives and Mavericks. A bit of searching on here and Google may throw up more info.

FYI - Just installed an APC Backup-UPS XS 1200 Model BX1200

This is a simple FYI... Read on if you have an interest in Backup-UPS systems for your Mac.
My experience with my neigborhood's power supply (or lack of it) this past week has made me think very hard about a UPS system. I did some research and ended up buying the APC Backup-UPS XS 1200 Model BX1200 to service my PM G5 Dual 2.5GHz system. This unit provides 1200VA and 780 watts.
Not only did I lose power abruptly several times this past week but have noticed at times when power supply AOK that my PM G5 would at times mysteriously shutdown for no good reason - but of course I suspect the power draw has caused my puny EnerGizer ER-HM450 UPS Power Protection device to give up on me. It has a VA rating of 450 and watts of 200 and supposedly a 2-8 mins of battery run time when power fails. This EnerGizer just wasn't doing the job for me.
My PM has 3 ext FW400 and FW800 devices and the PM case has two stock HDs and a 3x 500GB RAID-0 SwiftData 200 setup installed inside. Also have the Ultra 6800 graphics card along with 3x FW800 port PCI card and of course a 4-port FirmTek Card for the Swiftdata devices. I also have the Apple 23" Alu flat panel display along with iSight and powered USB hubs. On top of this I have a Brother B&W laser printer HL-5170DN, Cable modem and AirPort base station. Occasionaly I will also plug in my power supply for my 17" PB and various other things such as Mini DV camera, Cell phone charger and so on.
So as you can imagine the power draw can get quite high when all these devices demand their max power draw - especially the Brother laser printer.
The whole setup draws power from a single wall socket having 20amp circuit breaker. This same 20amp circuit also powers other wall sockets and over lights in my study/office where I house the computer.
So OK - I installed my new APC UPS unit and I have to say I'm very pleased with it. I now feel very much protected. It claims to provide me with some 30-40 mins of battery power after a power failure.
The nice thing about this device is that it's Mac friendly (I did not have to install any of the software that came with the APC device) and no sooner had I hooked up its data port to a USB port on the PM G5 the System Preferences... Energy Saver panel displayed a new UPS tab for setting up the various juicy things for the UPS system. It showed me the exact APC model I had just installed along with its UPS Battery Level percent (it showed 100% full). All very cool stuff.
I will take a look at the supplied APC software to see if some other goodies above what Apple provides is useful or not. This other software is called PowerChute and claims to have sophisticated Power Management - we will see. ;-))
Just thought others might find this report useful.
APC provides a useful web site for you to figure out and size the best APC unit to buy at http://www.apc.com/sizing
BTW - picked up this APC model at my local Staples store for $154 + tax.
Regards... Barry

I've been looking around online for more "user" opinions on the matter of the importance of true sine waves and approximated. I just got off the phone with an APC representative who explained to me the difference, but of course, since he worked for APC, he thought the difference you pay for in a Smart-UPS is worth it. He said the basic BackUPS are made so that the company can stay competitive.
I actually own a Smart-UPS 1500 - WAY overkill for my setup. I'm just running a PowerMac G5 and a 30" display. But when I was shopping for one, a friend convinced me that my equipment will last longer if I go with the Smart-UPS. But the load on that thing is at it's lowerest indicator and it kind of feels like a waste.
However, I know we have bad electricty at our apartment in Los Angeles, and often get brown outs, so maybe it's worth having.
Anyway, my question is, does anyone have any opinions on how much our Apple computers suffer (or do not suffer) from AVR (approximated voltage regulators)? Is it really worth the extra few hundred dollars getting a UPS that will deliver true sine wave?
I appreciate any insight.
Thanks,
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Foundation Services OpenLDAP won't start

Hi,
The machine with the EPM System 11 mysteriously shutdown and froze on the shutdown screen. After this occured, when restarting the system and it's components, an error is occuring with the Hyperion Foundation OpenLDAP and it's dependent component - Hyperion Foundation Shared Services. These services will not start, and this affects all modules and has halted functionality of the system.
When I try to manually start Hyperion Foundation OpenLDAP, I get an error that reads:
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Does anyone know anything about this error or how I might troubleshoot this? I have tried using the basic Stop EPM System then Start EPM System to reboot it, but this doesn't work. Any help or ideas on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated. I can provide more information if needed.

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We had the Bi server crash and this worked to fix the OpdenLDAP. Unfortunately it seems like we have a similar issue and when I tried to recover the database I'm getting the below error message. Could anyone guide me on how we can fix this?
Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.
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undation\openldap\bdb\bin\db_recover -v
db_recover: unlink: __db.005: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.004: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.003: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.002: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.001: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.005: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.004: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.003: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.002: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.001: Permission denied
db_recover: Finding last valid log LSN: file: 2 offset 374488
db_recover: Recovery starting from [1][28]
db_recover: Log sequence error: page LSN 2 332066; previous LSN 89 668925
db_recover: Recovery function for LSN 1 1639 failed on forward pass
db_recover: PANIC: Invalid argument
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db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_recover: unable to join the environment
db_recover: unlink: __db.005: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.004: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.003: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.002: Permission denied
db_recover: unlink: __db.001: Permission denied
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I just got a G4 Cube from a friend that is exhibiting some very odd symptoms. The Cube is completely stock (with the exception that I replaced the PRAM battery, see below), and is the 450Mhz DVD-ROM model.
What it will do is occasionally, and for no apparent reason, will suddenly shut down. This happens completely randomly, and appears to NOT depend on what I'm doing with the computer at any particular moment. Sometimes it doesn't even make it through a complete boot cycle before it shuts down; other times, it boots up and appears to work fine, only to suddenly shut down hours (or even days) later.
At first I thought maybe it was overheating (as I have heard that the Cube is notorious for heat problems); however, this appears to not be the case. When the machine suddenly shuts down, both the Cube itself as well as the power supply do not feel noticably hot to the touch. Also, it has remained up through obviously processor intensive tasks. (For example, the other day I was playing Starcraft, and basically finished the entire Terran campaign and it didn't even bat an eyelash, but, hours later, after the machine had sat idle, I went to fire up Safari to browse a website only to have it suddenly shut down.)
Also, at least once, the machine has mysteriously STARTED UP on its own. I always shut down the machine before leaving for work in the morning, but one day I came back home to find that the machine had somehow, mysteriously STARTED UP while I was gone. Nobody was home all day, and we don't have any small animals that might have accidentally brushed up against the power switch. (no, I haven't yet called in a Ghost Hunting team to determine whether any supernatural forces were involved, although at this point I'm beginning to wonder if that may not be a bad idea...)
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Probably unique iPhone 3G freezes

Ok, i'm gonna explain this in a lot of detail, so, if you don't like detailed threads, press your browser's "Back" button.
I have a pre-3GS iPhone 3G, 8GB. It wasn't mine at first, but I restored it from a backup from my iPod touch 1st generation. The iPhone currently has an Exchange account configured, as well as 3 IMAP accounts, and an LDAP account. I have the phone set to fetch every hour but it generally fails because there is no data network. I do not have a data plan so I used the iPhone Configuration Utility to make a profile with an invalid APN so I can avoid using data. There is about 140 apps (I know, wow, right?), and there around 300-400MB free space right now. I have around 10 apps that have Push Notifications.
I started using the iPhone with 3.1 on it. Ever since, I have been experiencing the "mysterious shutdown," even though it is more like a freeze because the screen come on after a minute. I have also been experiencing the random freezes, and I even had a random service drop yesterday. I discovered that most of the freezing was caused by Exchange Calendar since it probably could not connect to the server and it decided to freeze the entire phone. But, recently, for troubleshooting purposes, I've had Exchange Mail turned off, and today I finally shut off Exchange Contacts. So, my Exchange account is completely off. The whole day today I had Wi-Fi turned off: that didn't help anything at all. Still was experiencing the same problems. I was still experiencing problems when my Exchange account was and still is completely off. Also, whenever the phone connects to the AT&T network, it freezes. Whenever it loses service, it freezes. Walking around school causes the phone to lose and gain service all the time. I'm pretty sure the phone hates me by now.
In my techiness and problem solving I have narrowed it down to the network, and some of the above. I have realized Airplane Mode is a good solution to the entire problem. In fact, it might be the solution. But, I'm looking for more solutions besides Airplane Mode.
What can I do to stop my freezing?

It's not just you guys. Mine just freezes completely, and after holding the power button for a while, it comes back on, or turns on the take screen shot feature. It's highly annoying!! I get network outages as well.

Random (mysterious) start-ups from shutdown on MBP 17" (Hi-Res)

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lately, my MBP has started to turn itself on at night. I always shut it down completely after a days' work (NOT making it sleep or standby, also NOT closing the lid before the shutdown is done). Actually, I tried waiting 5-10 minutes before closing the lid after the shutdown just to make sure I wasn't interrupting anything.
Now, in the morning, my MBP sits there sleeping (the light on the front is in "breathing" mode), and after opening the lid it is completely booted up.
Syslog shows me it randomly started at some time in the night (between 1h and 5h hours after the shutdown.
Of course I made sure that I have not set a startup time in the power setting's scheduler.
What could be the reason for this?

My MBP 15in also mysteriously self-starts. I have determined that this occurs every evening at 7:00 pm sharp when the AC power is attached. This is despite the fact that I have no scheduled start-up time configured. I have yet to have it happen on battery. It has been happening regularly when nothing else is plugged in, not USB, FW, nothing. Sharing and remote management may be turned on or off as otherwise needed and have no noticed influence.

Mysterious message asking to shutdown

I updated the latest security patch yesterday. Today when the screensaver (Flurry), i got a message, square black background with lettering in five different languages telling me that i need to restert my computer. It said ' you need to restart your computer by holding the power button for few seconds or pressing the restart button...." there was a power icon on the background. All this while the screensaver is frozen. No key on the computer would work. So i restarted as told, and when i relogged in, there was a error message saying ' os x quit unexpectedly ...' with report and ok buttons on it. This message is regular mac message if you shut down the computer with power button than soft shutdown.
Was that a message built into screen saver?

Hi CosMac,
what you see is called a "kernel panic". These articles might help:
Mac OS X: What Is a Kernel Panic?
Mac OS X: How to Log a Kernel Panic
Kernel Panics? Don't panic too!
Mac OS X Kernel Panic FAQ
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Mysterious Server Shutdown

Virtually no UNIX admin experience. Any admin duties are shared by several folks with no special training. Today we had our Sun v880 server, running Solaris 5.8, shutdown for no apparent reason.
When we checked on server we found it completely powered down, yet still connected to a fully charged UPS. When we booted the system back up a few of the file systems required FSCHK be run on them. Other then that...no damage done.
Can anyone point us to any system logs that might give us some insight as to why our server shutdown?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Solaris keeps its log in the :
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You can also review the older logs ...
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They're plain text

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