Need help with Powerbook freeze issue

I'm having a strange problem with my PB: At seemingly random times, the system will lock up and display the spinner and the only way I know how to fix it is to pop the battery out and reboot. It doesn't respond to any input once the spinner starts.
Here's the thing: when the freeze happens, I can hear an abnormal noise from the spacebar or upper left area. It sounds like hard drive activity at short spurt intervals, with almost one-second pauses in between.
I have repaird the HD and permissions, which said it fixed some errors, but the problem is persisting. I ran a hardware scan and all is well. I took it to the Apple Store and the guy couldn't find anything physically wrong with it after running some diagnostics.
One last thing--I seem to be running Safari usually when these freezes occur. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Powerbook G4 Aluminum 15" Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1.5 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM

forgot to add that i did delete and re add the Drivers thinking that might be an issue
Ran system test on everthing and it show its working just fine
but still no SPOKEN VOULUME TO SPEAK OF
the music or Sound side works fine
Paul

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Hello Apple Community. I need help with a freezing powerbook G4

Hello!
I'm new to Apple laptops. I purchased a Powerbook G4 867 MHz 640 MB used and I'm starting to have some problems with it. My powerbook freezes at random intervals and I cannot even move the mouse. I have to hold down the power button to restart it. It runs fine before every freeze and it seems like after it freezes the fan runs very fast.. it sounds like a fan at least. This Powerbook came with no CD's at all, I have been trying to download various software to fix it but that's when I run into my next issue. I receive a "mounting failed" error upon every download. When I double click on the file it says "cannot open because this file is still be downloaded."
I really like this computer and would love to get it working right. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! I don't know the most about mac os x so if you could be please be detailed as I cannot always locate programs on here.
Thank you guys!

Well... that is an older system, as long as you don't want to watch internet video's, it may work for you. First thing I would do is to reset the PMU and the PRAM. Next thing I would want to do is to run the Apple hardware test. See if the Powerbook image located here will work. If not, if you can put your hands on a copy of TechTool Deluxe (might even be on your system) that can do similar hardware testing.
It would be good if you could put your hands on at least a retail version of OS X 10.4 Tiger, as certain operations, like repairing the hard drive, require that you boot from another source. Or, if you have an external backup drive that you can use for your system, you can initialize it for Mac OS extended (journaled) format, use a program like SuperDuper to make a bootable copy of your hard drive, then boot from it. Note it can only connect via Firewire if you want to be able to boot from it.
In the meantime, you can bring up Disk Utility, in applications/utilities on your hard drive, and do a verify disk. If this notes issues, you'll either need the retail OS X mentioned above or a bootable backup to repair (or you can buy Disk Warrior which can also likely repair a hard drive problem, as long as it's not a hardware issue). Usually people try Disk Utlity repair first before investing in Disk Warrior.
One source for OS X 10.4 Tiger retail disks would be hardcoremac.com. Don't get an upgrade disk, either, as they may require you to be on the prior operating system.

Need help with expression builder issue

Hi all
I'm hoping someone can help with an issue I'm having. I'm creating a database for a manufacturing joinery. For 1 of my forms, Ive to create a despatch form which includes order details along with customer details. Some customers can have contracts in which
they get a fixed price on certain item. This is where the problem lies.
For my customers table, I have a field called "On contract" which is a Yes/No field. I've created a query to attempt to make this form. I'm having trouble with adding a total column at the end of this query. Quantity,Unit Price, Contract Price
are also in the query. I've been trying to build an expression to say like;
iif [on contract] = "Yes", [Quantity] * [Contract Price]
iif [on contract] = "no", [Quantity] * [Unit Price]
It obviously wont work, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance

Hi,
Assuming you are using the database is SQL Server:
SELECT [CustomerID]
,[Quantity]
,[Unit Price]
,[Contract Price]
,[Total] = CASE WHEN [On Contract] = 'Yes' THEN [Quantity] * [Contract Price]
WHEN [On Contract] = 'No' THEN [Quantity] * [Unit Price] END
FROM [Customers]
Modify the SQL to suit your need.
Hope this helps.
~J.

Need help with Itunes Authorization issue

I've been a Itunes/Ipod user for a couple years. During that time, I've sure spent over $500.00 on Itunes music from the Itunes store for my Ipod. My daugter and I both have Ipods.. There have only been 2 machines with Itunes installed here but I occasionally rebuild my computers to have the latest and greatest hardware for my business.. The other day I backed up all my music and data before rebuilding my machine due to hardware upgrades. Everything went smoothly including importing my purchased music back into Itunes.. The problem is I can't listen to it now. When I try to double click a song I get an error that says "You have already authorized 5 computers with this account. To authorize this computer you must first deauthorize one of the other computers" This isn't possible because the computers aren't around anymore to deauthorize. They were all housed (except 1, my daughters pc) in the same case as I have now.. Please respond...

The other day I backed up all my music and data before rebuilding my machine due to hardware upgrades.
okay. you may have ended up with multiple authorisations on that PC due to the system changes. if so the following documents should be of some help with techniques for freeing up authorisations:
One computer using multiple iTunes Music Store authorizations
About iTunes Store authorization and deauthorization

Need help with a freezing / Lock up issue

Hey Everyone,
I have an lenovo T400 running Windows XP with iTunes 9.2.1.5.
I have 2 different iPhones (3gs and 4) both with the latest 4.x software.
Any time I connect either phone to this Laptop iTunes locks up.
The seriers of events happens as...
Itunes sees the iphone and...
Verifying iPhone
syncing
backing up
syncing apps
Syncing
Then it locks.
I've been googling an dsearching here, some poeple thinking it was a Voicememo or issue, podcast issue, app issue, music issue. I've deleted all of that off one phone and it still locks up.
I've been searching and out of ideas.
What order does a phone sync in?
Is there a way to watch it sync and see if it's hanging on one file?

I am having the same issue suddenly the last couple of days. I haven't installed anything else nor have I done anything out of the ordinary. Whenever I select multiple items this also seems to happen.
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Need help with computer freezing up.

I seem to be having some trouble with my computer freezing up from time to time. Usually it's when I'm using the program Transmission or Toast Titanium. I can't access the applications files, the Dock icons or do any force quit on the programs. Also I can't do a restart or shut down. I have tried using the keystrokes to shut down and restart, but as well this doesn't work. Everything gets frozen. The only way I can stop the freeze is to manually turn the computer off by the on/off button in the back of the computer. I have heard it is really bad to do so. What else could I do when the computer is frozen like this to get it unstuck? Also being that this has happened a few times, how do I correct the programs so that it won't keep happening?
Thanks.

Hi,
When you run a program in Mac it loads the necessary information to the RAM and access it from there. If other programs are running in the computer along with the Toast Titanium then there is a possibility of the memory unable to address all the requirements. The best way is to keep an eye on the memory usage from Activity monitor when you start using the Toast next time.
While trying to burn the data into a CD the files are first loaded into the memory so that it will be written to the disk. So what I will suggest is to close all the applications and wait for a reasonable amount of time to see whether the computer frees up memory and starts to write onto the disk.
If not, you will also need to free up some hard drive space.
Also in the ~/Library/Logs/Crash Reporter look for crash files and see what is causing the issue.
Shutting down the computer with the Power on/off button is not that good however if nothing else is working, you have no choice other than that.
Hope that helps....
I wanted to add few more tips.

Just Switched To Mac's and Need Help With A Few Issues!

Hi All,
I finally did it and switched to a Mac!! Never thought it would happen as I always felt guilty about the cost but after 5 laptops crashing on me - well, I just could not take it anymore! I managed to get a fairly good deal on a 15" Macbook Pro - 2.2/120GB version. I still don't know much about the mac way but am trying to learn so any help would be appreciated!
1). Is there any kind of video tutorial (preferably free!) that I can use that will help me learn the Ma OS X? I have Tiger 10.4.11 on my MBP (Did you hear that - MY MBP!!!)
2). AOL Assured me that they fully support Mac before I purchased (only 5 times!) but after I had bought it - they then told me that they do not! I got the AOL disk for Mac but it kind of ***** - features are missing etc. Does anyone in the UK run their Mac's with AOL and does it run as per normal? Any advice with AOL & Mac?
3). AOL also told me - hey, no probs - of course you can transfer all your old emails, favourites folders, personal filing cabinet from a PC to a Mac - but then, after I bought it - the so called dedicated Mac Experts at AOL tell me that simply is not possible - What advice can anyone give me who has switched from PC to Mac with AOL and who needed to transfer all their stuff over? AOL tells you totally different things depending on who you talk to and even from what their web page state! I am really fed up with them!
4). If I am ever successful in getting all my many years worth of data from AOL on a PC to a Mac, I am really intent of changing ISP's - what are the best ones for Mac that offer good Mac support, good deals and no charges for telephone support?
5). I was initially happy with Tiger as again, AOL assured me they supported it but not Leopard (even their website says so) and as I stupidly thought that it must be true (we are talking AOL here!). Now I know that they don't support anything Mac, I am contemplating moving to Leopard - I am a little cautious as I heard there were/are many bugs and unhappy leopard experiences - have the majority of these been solved yet and is it advisable to change to Leopard or should I wait until an updated version comes out?
6). My MBP was originally bought in the US but is registered to my name in the UK. it has 6 months Apple warranty left and I wish to buy Applecare. Apple says it 'recommends' buying Applecare in the country at which the item is registered (not bought, as I understand it). Does that mean, if I buy Applecare in the USA, Apple UK will still accept it and service my MBP as they would do any other or will I have to have the hassle of sending the thing to the USA if it needs attention? Applecare USA T&C's state only for the 50 States & Canada and Applecare UK state only for the UK & EU. Both however state international servicing?! I am a bit confused on this one. I travel a lot and need to know, that any Applecare I buy will not then be limited to just the places they state in the T&C's. As It reads to me, Applecare purchased in the USA/Canada will not cover the UK/Europe/ROTW and vice versa. Is this true or am I missing something or just plain thick?
5). I really wish to upgrade the 120GB HDD. My understanding is that it must be done by either Apple (who charge really silly money) or if correct, at an "Authorized Apple Service Provider" who of course will be much cheaper. If true, does this mean at ANY authorized apple service provider on the planet or just ones in which the item is registered? If I do the upgrade with a service provider, will Apple then also service the new HDD if something goes wrong as per normal anywhere in the world or will they then say, sorry, will not service the new HDD and you have to go back to the place where you had it installed, even though it was one of their authorized service centers? (that would really suck)!
6). The spelling and dictionary (and a few other things) are set to US English - how can I set to UK English? I have tried but to no avail so far.
7) What and how should I set the Firewall settings so I will not get attacks by any form of malware? (I do not know much about this area and what the implications mean)!
Well, that's it so far - please bear my ignorance, I am so new to Mac's and hope this to be one of the smarter decisions I have made in life! Already I have strange sensation that I never had with all those years of Microsoft & PC's - I kinda feel reassured, safe, that if I have problems, they will get sorted, My life will now be easier and not having to worry so much about crashes, viruses, trojans etc, gives me a sense of liberation and contentment almost - very strange feeling but a **** good one! (if only the women in my life were like that)!
Thank You All From A PC to Mac Switcher (and NO! I do not feel guilty or scared anymore)!
SuaveBhav!

I can help you with your questions about AppleCare, and can also reassure you that both the macbook pro and Leopard will be worth your investment and the time you are putting into figuring out how to get your data across. I switched from windows when I bought my macbook a year and a half ago and would not use any other system now. The other day I completed the transition by erasing parallels and Windows from my system entirely.
As for AppleCare, you can get warranty care anywhere in the world, no matter where you buy your AppleCare. Mine was bought and is registered in the US, I live in Slovakia, and have had it serviced several times in Austria and Slovakia under the warranty without any problems at all. There are differences, however, in exactly what the warranty covers from place to place, in accordance with the law in each place that AppleCare is issued. Even though I live in the EU, my agreement with Apple is an American one, and the American guarantees hold. If EU law would demand that Apple fix more things, for instance, than American law does, I could not get those things repaired under my agreement, and vice versa.
Basically, though, I understand my agreement with AppleCare to be that they will fix all problems/damage that are not my fault free of charge for two years after my initial one-year warranty runs out, and that is good enough for me.

Need help with an innerjoin issue

Hello;
I am writting a small app for my web site and have run into
an issue with an innerjoin. Let me explain what the function is for
this so maybe you can understand what I am doing.
There are 2 pages to this. Page 1, is a category selection
page. It loads all the categories on the page with a link that
passes a category ID to page 2. Page 2, then allows you to view all
the projects that are associated to the specific category. There is
a numbered navigation on this page, kind of like google, 1 2 3 4
More> Next>
Now what I am trying to do it create a select function that
allows you to choose another category to look through on page 2 so
you don't have to go back to page 1 and select another category
there.
Right now, I have the innerjoin working well with page 1
going to page 2 and the numbered nav, it is doing what it is
supposed to. BUT the select function is working off the where
clause and not working independantly from what the numbered nav and
body is supposed to be doing. There is also a spot I added to this
page that kind of works like the select function, it puts the name
of the category your viewing on the page.
What is happening with the select function and this name
function is lets say there are 5 project records tied to the
category you selected, then the select function gets 5 names of the
same category in it and so does the category name function.
(Follow this?)
Let me post the code for page 1 and page 2. also will add
what the tables are in the db.
DB tables:
Table1: Categories
Name (this is the actual category name), MYFile(the file that
give an image of the category), Description(a description of this
category), CategoryID (this is added to the projects table for each
project that is connected to each category)
Table 2: Projects
ProjectID (this is the ID of the projects), Name (this is the
name of the project) Body (thi sis the description and picture of
the project), CategoryID (this is the id of what category the
project falls under, also assigned to tproject from the categories
table)
There is a lot of code that goes in this, so I am going to
post the code that is pertinent to this question, 90% of it is
working at this time, just not the select function and category
name on page 2.
Page1 Code:
<CFQUERY name="GetRecord"
datasource="#APPLICATION.dataSource#">
select Name, MYFile, Description, CategoryID
FROM Categories
</CFQUERY>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<cfloop query="GetRecord" startRow="#URL.startRow#"
endRow="#endRow#"><cfoutput>
<img src="../img/cat/#MYFile#" width="50" height="50">
<a
href="portfolio-detail.cfm?CategoryID=#CategoryID#">#Name#</a>
#Description#
</cfoutput></cfloop>

Page2 code:
<CFQUERY name="getProjects"
datasource="#APPLICATION.dataSource#">
SELECT Projects.ProjectID, Projects.Name, Projects.Body,
Projects.CategoryID,
Categories.CategoryID AS catID, Categories.Name AS cat_name
FROM Projects
INNER JOIN Categories
ON Categories.CategoryID = Projects.CategoryID
WHERE Projects.CategoryID = #categoryID#
ORDER BY ProjectID
</CFQUERY>
<cfif getProjects.recordCount is 0>
No projects in this category.
<cfabort>
</cfif>
<head>

<script language="Javascript">
function changeRecord(){
document.category.submit();
</script>
</head>
<body>

<cfoutput
query="getProjects">#cat_name#</cfoutput>
<form Name="category" method="post"
Action="portfolio-detail.cfm?CategoryID=true">
<select name="CategoryID" size="1"
onChange="category.submit();">
<option value=""> --Select a Category--
</option>
<CFOUTPUT query= "getProjects">
<option value="#CategoryID#">#cat_name#</option>
</CFOUTPUT>
</select>
</form>

<cfoutput query="GetProjects" startRow="#startRow#"
maxRows="#maxRows#">
#Name#
#Body#
</cfoutput>

<cfmodule
template="../CFdocs/PageNav.cfm"
totalItems="#numRows#"
numPerPage="#maxRows#"
startRow="#startRow#"
url="#cgi.script_name#?categoryID=#categoryID#&startRow=#startRow#">
The main part that is not working properly is the select, and
category name. How to I get those to work independantly from my
where clause? (I need the where clause for the numbered nav and
cycling through the projects tied to the category you called up
from page 1.
Can someone help me tweek my code from this point? I am
stumped, I looked at the cf docs and I can't find a solution. I am
using CF 8.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
CFmonger

I fixed a lot of this since I posted it this morning. Now all
that isn't working properly is the select, it isn't passing the
proper variable to make the query work.
This is what I have now:
Page 2:
<CFQUERY name="getProjects"
datasource="#APPLICATION.dataSource#">
SELECT Projects.ProjectID, Projects.Name, Projects.Body,
Projects.CategoryID,
Categories.CategoryID AS catID, Categories.Name AS cat_name
FROM Projects
INNER JOIN Categories
ON Categories.CategoryID = Projects.CategoryID
WHERE Projects.CategoryID = #categoryID#
ORDER BY ProjectID
</CFQUERY>

<cfif getProjects.recordCount is 0>
No projects in this category.
<cfabort>
</cfif>

<CFQUERY name="cata"
datasource="#APPLICATION.dataSource#">
select Name, MYFile, Description, CategoryID
FROM Categories
</CFQUERY>
<head>
<script language="Javascript">
function changeRecord(){
document.category.submit();
</script>
</head>
<body>

<cfoutput query="getProjects"
maxrows="1">#cat_name#</cfoutput>

<form Name="category" method="post"
Action="portfolio-detail.cfm?CategoryID=#CategoryID#">
<select name="CategoryID" size="1"
onChange="category.submit();">
<option value=""> --Select a Category--
</option>
<CFOUTPUT query= "cata">
<option value="#CategoryID#">#Name#</option>
</CFOUTPUT>
</select>
</form>

The error I get when using the select is this:
Error Executing Database Query.
[Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][ODBC
Socket][Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Syntax error
(missing operator) in query expression 'Projects.CategoryID ='.
The error occurred in C:\Websites\folio\portfolio-detail.cfm:
line 12
10 : INNER JOIN Categories
11 : ON Categories.CategoryID = Projects.CategoryID
12 : WHERE Projects.CategoryID = #categoryID#
13 : ORDER BY ProjectID
14 : </CFQUERY>
I also tried doing it this way:
<form Name="category" method="post"
Action="portfolio-detail.cfm?CategoryID=true"
This way didn't work at all, it only made the numbered nav on
the page cycle through all the projects in all the categories.
What do I need to change to pass the proper variable from the
select nav to the innerjoin query and my where statement?

I need help with a mapping issue.

We have a number of websites setup so that they are all under the default website in IIS 7. We use ISAPI/ReWrite/3 to process and take it to the correct page to view. Unfortunately this does not work so well with CFAJAX or CFFILEUPLOAD. Can anyone help?
Example:
Local Directory: D:\sites\website1\index.cfm or D:\sites\website2\index.cfm
URL: http://website1.preview.domain.com/ would show a different website than http://website2.preview.domain.com/
ISAPI ReWrite code:
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^(?:.*\.)?website1\.preview\.domain\.com|^(?:.*\.)?website1\.new\.preview\.domain\.com|^( ?:.*\.)?website1\.office\.preview\.domain\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) /website1$1 [NC,L]
and the same with website2, only it has website 2 instead of website1.
However, when I use CFFileUpload it creates the parameter as: 'http://website1.preview.domain.com/website1/upload/process.cfm'
I have tried to replace the code when processing the template and the page content, but it does not replace it. It must happen last, even after I do a <cfsavecontent>
I need it to show up as http://website1.preview.domain.com/upload/process.cfm
Can anyone help me with either an idea to use in the ISAPI/ReWrite or some other change I can make?

The issue comes down to the fact that in the Coldfusion Administrator I set the Settings > Default ScriptSrc Directory : http://10.4.3.80/CFIDE/scripts/, because http://website1.preview.domain.com/cfide/scripts does not exist.
This works for cfchart, but when I look at the source for any flash stuff, it still puts just "/CFIDE/...", which is trying to pull from http://website1.preview.domain.com/CFIDE/..., which doesn't exist, and it shows http://website1.preview.domain.com/website1/upload/process.cfm (which does not exist) instead of http://website1.preview.domain.com/upload/process.cfm like it should. Everything else works on the website, all coldfusion stuff (although, I do convert some of the links and things in my page so that they work properly). However, I can't find a place to replace links when I use a cffileupload, it puts that in very last, so my links are messed up.
The nicest thing would be a setting that I could set the cffileupload to know what the path is. If that is not available, then I need to write a ISAPI/ReWrite line to redirect it.

Need help with powerbook 5300

I have a powerbook 5300cs with just a floppy drive in it. The guy i got it from deleted everything off it but the os. It has mac os 7.5 rev 3 on it. How can i put diskcopy back on it. I have no cd drive for it or internet for it too. Is there a program for windows that will make mac floppy disk from bin or sea files? I am lost when it come to mac since i haven't played with them that much. Like i said the guy took everything off but the os. There no diskcopy or first aid etc. Thanks for the help.

Hi,
You can use the floppy drive for transfers of smaller files. The existing operating system should have a PC Exchange control panel in the Control Panels folder. This means that PC-formatted floppies can be used directly. Just keep the files downloaded on a PC unaltered; that is, do not try to decode or decompress anything until on the Mac. Once on the Mac, decode MacBinary (.bin) and BinHex (.hqx) files by dragging them onto (or opening them from within) StuffIt Expander.
If no appropriate version of StuffIt Expander for Macintosh is available, try this: Use a PC to download the MACDISK.EXE file here. Prepare an empty PC-formatted 1.44 MB diskette via FORMAT A: in DOS or the full formatting option under Windows. Launch the MACDISK.EXE program on the PC. Follow the on-screen directions. The result will be a Mac-formatted disk with a ready-to-use StuffIt Expander 4.0.1 installer.
You will find two versions of Disk Copy here. Disk First Aid 7.2.2 can be found here.
A bootable floppy is always good to have at hand. The Disk Tools PPC (here) is OK for this purpose. Launch Disk Copy 6.3.3, and use the Make a Floppy command in the Utilities menu.
If necessary, look for a fresh (US) System 7.5.3 here. No need for any Disk Copy programs in this case.
Also, please note that you can use a standard CompactFlash memory card in a PC Card adapter for CF (such as this example). If you have a USB card reader attached to a modern computer, this is an easy and fast way of transferring files.
Jan

Fixing my friends ipod but need help with crashing freezing etc probs

my friend as us to fix his ipod two weeks ago as it had a sad face and was making grinding noises.
well we fix it but it is now very slow, and he says its freezing. this was after the fourth or fifth format restore as a normal itunes restore doesent work.
so afteer formating it on abuntu cus we descovered 2 partitions
it now works ... then we sync it with itunes 7.5 it crashed tried 8.0 it crashed even tried 9.25 and 10.1.
it crashed and locked the computer.
the drive is griding like mad , its slow and it wont always show up.
we think it a classic 5 g , it has a 30 gig hard drive, (post s/n later as im writing this in bed)
we got it up and running and then itunes 7.5 crashed. now it gone back to a small circle with a line which is black.
it looks like the wrong firmware keeps booting as it is suposed to be a red circle with line which is twice the size.
i know it had firmware 3.1 on it before and it eventually finds it. and works but
can someone tell me
1 where do i find the correct version of the firm ware as i think the current 1 is scrambled.
as for the hard drive it is getting hot and griding do u think i need replace it.
think s/n or model number is m????k something.
were runing out of ideas
can u help
btw my first post.

*Check your iPod with Diagnostics Mode*
It's possible that the iPod's hard drive is failing. Take the iPod and place your right thumb on the centre SELECT button and your left on the top MENU button. Press down both thumbs for about 6 seconds until your iPod reboots. Immediately move your left thumb around to the rewind button |<< on the left and hold this down together with SELECT for a further 6 seconds. The iPod should now switch into Diagnostic Boot mode. Press MENU for *Manual Test*, then select *IO > HardDrive > HDSMARTData* to reveal your stats. For comparison here are mine for my 2 year old 6th Generation Classic:
Retracts: 889
Reallocs: 12
Pending Sectors: 0
PowerOn Hours: 2202
Start/Stops: 894
Temp: Current 24c
Temp: Min 10c
Temp: Max 50c
Take a note of your results. When finished press *SELECT & MENU* for 6 seconds to reset the iPod again.
With modern disc drives sectors are no longer marked bad by a disc scan, if the SMART firmware detects a sector it has trouble accessing it will attempt to invisibly reallocate it to a spare area of the disc.
Note that I've only 12 remapped sectors and none pending. To help explain what the numbers mean here is an extract from the Wikipedia S.M.A.R.T. article:
*Reallocated Sectors Count*
Count of reallocated sectors. When the hard drive finds a read/write/verification error, it marks this sector as "reallocated" and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area). This process is also known as remapping, and "reallocated" sectors are called remaps. This is why, on modern hard disks, "bad blocks" cannot be found while testing the surface – all bad blocks are hidden in reallocated sectors. However, as the number of reallocated sectors increases, the read/write speed tends to decrease. The raw value normally represents a count of the number of bad sectors that have been found and remapped. Thus, the higher the attribute value, the more sectors the drive has had to reallocate.
*Pending sector count*
Number of "unstable" sectors (waiting to be remapped, because of read errors). If an unstable sector is subsequently written or read successfully, this value is decreased and the sector is not remapped. Read errors on a sector will not remap the sector (since it might be readable later); instead, the drive firmware remembers that the sector needs to be remapped, and remaps it the next time it's written.
Large numbers of Reallocs or Pending Sectors would suggest the drive is failing and that you may need to repair or replace the iPod. Check the stats after another attempt to update the iPod. If the numbers increase that again points to hard drive failure. While it won't be good news at least you'll know it isn't some random software problem and you can decide what to do next, e.g. replace the hard drive or the entire unit.
tt2

New to Flash AS3, Need help with some weird issues, have .fla link attached...

Basically, the buttons are not visible when siteplan_mc is replayeed after floorplan closes, but they still work. Most things are only working on double click for soe reason, tho I have them to function on click. and the back button only woorks on unit 1 floorplan, tho the code it the same for all floorplans. I have a feeling it has something to do with levels... but I really have no idea... hopefully someone can help!
thanks in advance,
Sarah
http://www.30eastroosevelt.com/RRHA_SITE.fla

There are at least two things you're doing wrong. You can't go to a frame where something exists for the first time, and immediately do something to it. Like in your playunit functios for example:
gotoAndStop("unit1")
unit1_mc.alpha = 1
unit1_mc hasn't yet drawn itself on stage to have its alpha set, and so there's an error. That is something that was improved in Flash 10, so if you had set the Flash to publish for Flash 10 and not Flash 9, then the floor plans and the back buttons appears ok. It would sometimes work with double clicks because by the second time you clicked, the movieclip now existed. You might be able to do what you want by having all of the room units on frame 1 of the siteplan_mc, and then set their visible to true or false as you need them, instead of doing the gotoAndStop().
The other problem is that you're trying to set listeners on the Back buttons that don't yet exist. Wait until you're on the frame where the buttons exists, and then set its listener for the mouse click.
Other things you're doing could be improved too, but really you might want to get together with someone who has done more AS3, to help you become more familiar with how it works.

Need help with startup Sync issue with Photoshop Elements 8.0

When starting up Photoshop Elements 8.0 a brief dialog appears about sync space being filled up with options for Cancel or Proceed. This is then quickly covered up by the frame showing Survey/Show What's New/etc... cannot get back to dialog about sync space. Only way to get into the program is to click on the right arrows in the Welcome to Elements frame, start a tour, click right arrow until Go box is presented and then click on Go. Major PITA to do this. If we are quick, we can click on the initial dialog and click on Cancel or Proceed and get into the program without the covered up frame. We are running PSE8 on Windows 7.
I have shut off sync and still this problem remains.I have been a loyal Adobe product user but this Automatic Sync stuff is really starting to get VERY irritating.
Thanks for any help that can be provided.

A lot of people are finding the same frustrations. Apparently PSE8 does not let you select start up with the Editor but forces the welcome screen on users. This is a classic case of Adobe not knowing what customers want and giving us what they think we want. It ignores the fact that the majority of users will have upgraded from earlier versions.
You can make quick short cuts. If using windows right click on the desktop, select new short cut then browse to program files, Adobe Photoshop elements and scroll right down the list and click on Editor; then finish.
You can do the same for the organizer and then launch each one independently.
You need to think carefully whether you need to keep everything in sync with Photoshop.com. Several users have found problems when they have quickly used up their free storage capacity and then have to pay Adobe an upgrade fee just to continue using the program, otherwise they are locked out.

Need help with Firefox display issue on one page of site

I have a page that W3C validates, displays properly in IE and Netscape, but does not display properly in Firefox. The issue is with a style class applied to the inner centered table. class= "vert_table" This class works on all of the other pages in the site, but not in this one.
The page:
http://www.redshift.com/~lorac/sdy-46-49.html
The issue:
< table class="vert_table" width="760" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" bgcolor="#f1ebe8" >
The vertical rule does not display, and further down the page a dark left-right border appears starting with this text.
my mother, when I was wasting my life away not knowing who I was,
and ends with:
Mojin: (hugging him) I don't expect you to love me. I just want you to live, that's all.
I have been looking through this code for two days, searching for any offending omission in code or redundancy that would break the page. I've searched for missing div tags but none are apparent to me. I'm hoping someone with fresh eyes can spot it right away.
It's odd that the page validates but Firefox cannot display it properly.
Sample page of code working properly:
http://www.redshift.com/~lorac/sdy-41-45.html
Any help is appreciated.

Hi Jim, thanks for the reply. Your suggestions sound interesting but I'd like to figure out why this particular page doesn't work when all of the others do. I'm sure it's just a little code thing that I'm overlooking.
I could revert back to a saved page, but I updated text and images on this page before the verticle border broke, so I don't want to lose those edits. And that is why I'd like to fix this one instead of redesigning the page.
BTW, I forgot to mention in my first post, GoLive CS, W2K.

Need help with netstream crossdomain issue

Our company has a main server for our web site. But all of
our graphics are then copied from the main server to a special
caching server to speed things up. I am trying to use netstream to
create a universal video player for our company and it works fine
as long as the source .swf and .flv are being called from the same
server. But when I call the .swf from our main server and then the
.swf tries to load the .flv from the graphics server, it doesn't
play. I have tried the crossdomain.xml thing and it still doesn't
work. I've looked for information relating to netstream crossdomain
issues but haven't found anything. I know the easy solution is to
make sure everything is called one server, but many people might
use this and I can't always be sure they know what they are doing.
Can anybody help???? OR could this be a problem with the way our
servers are setup?

forgot to add that i did delete and re add the Drivers thinking that might be an issue
Ran system test on everthing and it show its working just fine
but still no SPOKEN VOULUME TO SPEAK OF
the music or Sound side works fine
Paul

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