Raid setup and other problems,soooo frustrating.

Hey everyone,first post here!
I have tried and tried to search for a problem like mine here and i have found bits and pieces but nothing which has really helped yet.I have just built my first pc and these are my problems at this point.
My deal is....ok first i have only a single hard drive at the moment but i want to be setup for raid 1 when i get another one soon.I understand that this means loading the drivers during the whole f6 part.Unfortunately when inserting my formatted driver containing floppy and pushing enter-nothing happens? it just says to wait for maybe half a second and then the screen comes back up asking for the floppy again.I have confirmed that the floppy drive works in another computer and my new computer is recognizing it.Its possible im not making the driver disc correctly -possibility.
Well, after fooling around with that for hours i decided hmm i dont like raid so much now so i disabled raid in bois and went ahead and tried to start insalling windows.Started off everything working and seemed fine,I formatted the Hdd for like an hour and then i was prompted that the computer would restart and setup would continue upon restart...ok.Now once it restarts it just acts as though i never even started??? it just starts right back over again asking me to format the HDD again!! Which i just spent an hour doing!!??
This thing basically has me fed up,im kind of a newb at building pc's but i feel as though i know enought not to have problems like this.All in all i would like to be setup for raid but it is not crucial,if anyone can guid me to getting this thing working any way around i would appreciate it,thanks in advance!!

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Ok-yes i have the 4 pin plug which fits the top half of the 12v 8 pin recepticle, i knew i could do this but was informed it wasnt the best idea..I will try it.
There should be no problem. I just want to make sure that the CPU draws its currents from the power rail "expected" by the PSU. Remember, yours has two seperate +12V-rails. Only one of them supplies the processor. If your video card and your processor are supplied by the same power rail, you will run into problems for sure.
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I am not familiar with these programs.
They are freeware, easy to use and more or less self-explanatory. It doesn't really matter which of the two tools you use:
- XP ISO BUILDER: http://winfuture-xp-iso-builder.en.softonic.com/
- NLite: http://www.nliteos.com/
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1.Remove molex 8 pin adapter.
2.Insert 4 pin connector.
3.Aquire xp sio builder or equivilant.
4.Determine os specifics(SP2 or SP2)
5.Make necesarry changes to install cd.
6.Integrate drivers on cd as well.
Looks good.
Another question:
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so i disabled raid in bois and went ahead and tried to start insalling windows.Started off everything working and seemed fine,I formatted the Hdd for like an hour and then i was prompted that the computer would restart and setup would continue upon restart...ok.Now once it restarts it just acts as though i never even started??? it just starts right back over again asking me to format the HDD again!! Which i just spent an hour doing!!??
Did you repeat the install attempt after that and tried without reformating the HDD (again)?

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Thank you for the quick response.
Well, I haven't tried reinstalling the windows since if I do so I would have to set up everything from scratch and that will waste much time. But again I think reinstalling windows can help fix things around, I hope. I will do if time allows. Thanks. Anyways I wonder whether YOU could implement the S1 and/or S3 state successfully with your system, can you?
Also I'd like to update that the wait time is not 15 seconds, but actually 40 seconds!!! Isn't that annoying? Well, the wait times diminishes if I restart my computer from hibernation, which provide no wait times and my system could start in merely seconds. Well, that makes me wonder tho. Is the wait time really necessary? If so, why restarting from hibernation need no such wait time at all? Could there be a driver update or bios update to address this problem?
And again there's another problem just risen lately. Its shutdown problem. Occasionally when I shutdown my system, it shuts down but immediately start up again. It's like the shutting down mechanism failed. This didn't happen before, just recently. Any clue why this is happening? I'm afraid the jump from immediate restart after shutdown will eventually break my harddrives.
Thank you for your attention,
regards
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Audio (and other) problems noted with Keynote version 4.0.1

Since installing Keynote 4 and the 4.0.1 update, I have noted the following situations and/or problems:
1) When doing a "save-as" the filename is appended with the suffix ".key" but when I subsequently "save" this file, the suffix disappears. The file seems to open and operate OK nonetheless, but this puzzles and somewhat concerns me that someday Keynote may not recognize the file. This happens whenever I "save" a slideshow after I have made any changes to it.
2) When playing back a "soundtrack," the audio "glitches" frequently at slide transitions: this occurs repeatedly on my G5 desktop system but not on my MacBook Pro-17. The "glitches" always seem to occur at the same places in the track - which, of course, is also at the same slide transitions. (This problem has spawned several similar questions and threads in this forum.)
3) Related to #2 above, the "glitches" also interrupt or corrupt the "recording" of that soundtrack, so that the synchronization is off when the slideshow is played back.
4) If I want to have an audio track play under a series of slides, the only way I have found to accomplish this is to create a separate slideshow with the audio track running as a "soundtrack" and "record" the Builds and Transitions in sync with the audio. If I want to incorporate several of these shows together, I can create a "master" slideshow and Hyperlink each segment to the next. HOWEVER...
5) When I "record" a "soundtrack" and "synchronize" the Builds and Transitions within the slideshow, everything plays back properly in sync ONLY when the slideshow is played as a stand-alone presentation (i.e. a cold start from the desktop). If I initiate playback of the slideshow via a Hyperlink from another presentation, the soundtrack plays but NONE of the synchronization works at all.
6) The only way I have found to have an audio track "fade-in" or "fade-out" is to use off-line editing software to record these fades prior to importing the tracks into Keynote. The "Start Audio" Build function is simply a hard "cut" in, and the end of the track is a hard "cut" out.
These problems are consistent and repeatable facts. Whether they are "bugs" in the software or "design shortcomings" is uncertain. Nonethtless ...
At the risk of offending the moderators of this forum, I feel compelled to comment that these problems render the audio operations of Keynote less than satisfactory and should be addressed as soon as possible with another update to this visually stunning but audio-challenged application.

Well Ron S, I re-confirmed why I prefer not to look to tech support for support.
It seems to me that support's main function is to deflect any critical comments and push the blame back to the user.
Frankly, I have better things to do with my time and money than try to help a multi-billion dollar enterprise learn about itself.
So, for the benefit of you and the nearly 400 who have followed this thread, I offer you my latest and probably last attempt to have Apple acknowledge in some small way that "Houston, we have a problem".
I expect this reply will result in this thread being yanked as well, since I'm expressing negative thoughts about Apple's product and wishing they would do better, which is a non-technical gasp of utter frustration and disappointment. Note that "product" is singular, defining Keynote. My other Apple products serve me loyally and superbly, which is why my huge disappointment with Keynote.
So here is my correspondence with Tech Support. I've removed names except mine.
I think it speaks for itself. They have notes from my conversations with them that I have current Apple computers, including a MacBookPro, not an old PowerBook, nevertheless, they have told me that the problem is mine because the fabulous hyper-performing Keynote software is choking my poor old machine (paraphrased muchly).:
Hi (support),
That's disappointing news, especially since this test was done on 3 machines: an old G4 400, a 2.0G Dual G5 and an Intel core duo MacBookPro which yielded identical results.
It is not a hardware issue.
I do not accept a brush-off that it is my hardware that is causing Keynote to be problematic.
I will assume that Apple is not interested in addressing these issues in public and that Keynote is substandard software that is in need of re-authoring.
Sorry to be so blunt, but Apple has set this tone with Keynote, and used its considerable reputation as a leading a/v technology innovator to imply that Keynote will deliver the excellence we Mac users have come to expect.
I have been a loyal mac user since the SE series and have enjoyed success with the machines and software offered by Apple, and depend on them for my livelihood. I'm currently using FC Studio6 and know that Apple is capable of maintaining its high standards.
However, Keynote fails to do that, instead behaving like a product that was invented in a teenager's basement and is in beta. I realize that it's not designed as a FCP level product, but it fails at the basic tasks that you advertise it will complete.
A version 4 product should work as advertised. Keynote certainly does not.
I'm deeply saddened that Apple seems to have become an iPod entertainment company, interested mainly in profits from entertainment rather than serious useful technology.
On 2007-Oct-19, at 10:14 AM, (tech support) wrote:
Hello Sir,
Unfortunately, this does look like it's mostly a case of some of the new Keynote features slowing down the performance on the PowerBook.
At this point, there isn't much else we can do in the way of troubleshooting.
If you are not satisfied with the performance on the PowerBook, using the previous version of Keynote is probably his best option at this point.
We will continue to research this issue, but at this point it's unlikely I'll be able to find additional suggestions for improving performance, as it looks like it is is reproducible and limited to older models.
On Oct 16, 2007, at 11:27 PM, Ron Tucker wrote:
Hi (support),
Thanks for your recent followup calls. I'm directing a video shoot so am a bit preoccupied.
Here are the tests I mentioned.
These are as simple as it gets, and I think highlights the synchronization problem with Keynote.
Test 1 is straightforward, and demonstrates that a single unedited recorded audio track will maintain mouse click synchronization.
Test 2 is the same file, but with audio modifications applied to each slide in succession.
This demonstrates a dramatic synchronization slippage.
The visuals occur before the click (and audio) markers. Keynote seems to be create delay in audio at each "record and replace" point. This accumulates as the audio is revised in successive slides.
These tests demonstrate that there is a fundamental flaw in how Keynote handles audio in its most basic application.
This does not address the slim toolset available, such as lack of insert capability and other basic audio tools, which is a separate design issue, and I suppose subject to "request for enhancement" feedback.
I've reluctantly abandoned Keynote for my project work at present until these basic issues are addressed and it can be demonstrated that Keynote can successfully execute its feature set.
<TuckerKeynoteTest.zip>
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Backup or Clone Stalls at about 200GB and other problems

I cannot backup more than about 210GB out of 440GB on a 500GB boot drive. I have tried Disk Utility to create a clone of my boot drive and I have tried SuperDuper! to do the same thing. I have tried creating a clone on another internal drive and I have tried to create a clone to an external drive. No matter which drive or disk software I use, the backup proceeds quickly (25 to 50 MB/sec depending upon the drive) until it reaches a little more 200GB, then the backup stalls. In the case of Disk Utility, all of my Application and Library files are captured correctly, but my User files are not. SuperDuper! Starts at the bottom of the drive directory and captures most or all of my User files, but SuperDuper stalls when it reaches the Application and System files (including Library files). In both cases, as I mentioned above, 205GB to 212GB are transferred before the backup stalls.
My hardware config is just below and other symptoms are shown below that.
2006 MacPro
Model Name: Mac Pro (September 2006)
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Two 1TB Drives configured as one 1TB RAID Set (software RAID)and used for Video and Photos
Two 500GB drives. One is the boot drive and one was being used as a Time Machine backup drive until I started having problems.
• Apple’s “Backup” Software does not complete a backup designed to copy Microsoft Office and Apple iWork files. The software scans more than six million files (there are only 900,000 files on my hard drive) and then fails.
• The computer will not boot from the Mac Pro Install Disk. Every attempt leads to descending dark gray scree with the message, “You need to restart your computer.”
• I cannot empty the Trash. I usually keep Trash empty, so there are never very many files in Trash. Recently I tried to empty the trash and the system started to count files to be removed an it quickly reached one million files after which I “Force Quit” Finder to stop it.
• My computer was going to sleep frequently despite Preference Settings designed to prevent any sleep at all. I thought this was interrupting the backup processes, despite the fact that SuperDuper, at least, seems to stave off the computer’s attempt to sleep. I installed Caffeine and that stopped the unrequested sleep behavior, but did not solve the backup problem.
• Recently my computer failed to find the boot drive. When this happens I can hold the “option” key during boot and select the boot drive myself.
• I have reset the PRAM and VRAM.
• The Install disk Extended Hardware test does not find a problem.
• Disk utility does not find a problem with the boot drive although a small number of disk permissions always need to be fixed when I run Repair Disk Permissions. Most, but not all of the failed and then repaired permissions are related to Java. One is related to Parental Controls.
• I reinstalled the OS by downloading and executing the Mac OS X 6.5 Combo update.
• I have not installed any new hardware for about a year.
• I am running Disk Warrior right now but it has not completed its check yet
• I have started to use DropBox to protect my User files (mostly Office and pdf files)—get them off the computer, but I am worried about restoring my Applications if I “lose” the system.

Thanks to all of you; I appreciate your expertise and the time you take to help me out. I have made progress. Let me start by saying that my system has 10GB of DRAM memory. One of you commented that I might have needed more disk swap space, but I don't think this is likely. I do think file corruption is a possibility. I am interested in all of your comments but first, will you please explain this in more detail?
"Rebuilding the extensions drivers which are in a cache file, thru Safe Boot, may help - a good driver when installed should force the mkext to rebuild or be deleted, but not all do."
Now, here is the update that I provided to SuperDuper!... In my update I commented that Trash had many more than a million files in it--I think six million. When I deleted the application mentioned below, there is no way that I had that many files, or that much content associated with the app--something pathological happened. My system stability has improved but I will watch for a few more days before I declare victory. In a few days I will do a file system rebuild on the boot drive using DiskWarrior, but I am interested in learning what all of you think might be a better maintenance procedure.
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I fixed the problem and SuperDuper successfully ran a full backup.
I bought and ran DiskWarrior which showed that one directory in my .Trash file had about ten sub-directories in it and each one had more than 100,000 files. I think the true number might have been six times that. The directory in Trash was attributed to an application that I deleted recently--SugarSync.
I ran this UNIX command: rm -rf ~/.Trash. It took many hours to complete. When completed I was surprised to see that about 200GB had disappeared from my boot drive--all from Trash and nothing I care about. I ran DiskWarrior again and got a clean report. I repaired disk permissions, re-booted and ran SuperDuper immediately. It copied 249GB in 1:59:00 to an internal drive.
Time Machine now also works.
I think I have some more cleanup to do but I appreciate your help.

Power Manager features and other problems associated with the T510

For the better part of 5 years I've been a happy user of a IBM Z60m and decided it was time to pass my z60 off to my son and buy a new T510. Well I after several weeks of ownership I can honestly say I'm irritated and frustrated by several ongoing issues and am ready to send the whole unit back.
From the time I pulled it out of the box I'm been having power management issues. I've been on Microsoft's help forums, called lenovo support, and spent countless hours on blogs and forums looking for assistance. No matter what I do in the lenovo power setting arrangements my computer aways goes in stanby after a minute of nonuse and then asks me for my windows password. So after an entire day of inserting my password my frustration level is off the chart. I removed the password in the user settings that didn't help. I changed the global settings to turn off password in stanby mode that didn't help. I've changed the power choice feature to optimize and others but none of that helped.
Beyond those problems... I inserting two different disks to insert new programs and my system kept telling me it couldn't read either. I first thought they were scratch but my old ibm laptop read each without a problem.
So there you have it.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Are you sure the system is going into standby after 1 minute? Or is the screen being locked?
Try this:
1. right-click on desktop and choose "personalize"
2. click on "screen saver" in the lower right corner
3. uncheck the box that says "On resume, display logon screen"
Does that fix your issue?

Oracle 8.1.5 install on Linux Redhat 6.0: character set (and other) problem(s)

I am trying to install Oracle 8i on Linux and it does not work : once the install is finished, I have a message saying that "Character Set not found".
I am runing a french version of Linux (fr-latin 1) and I try to install Oracle with French and English as languages
An other problem about this install : Oracle does not seem to recognize that I have 6,9 Giga for it to install, and says that I have not enough space for the install...
And at the end of the install, it takes for ages (about 15mns) during which nothing seems to happen. On one machine I got out of this phase, but on the other I never saw it finish, it looks as if the computer crashed. Is that normal?
I went through all the initialization phases, set the correct environment variables...
thanks
Solange
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I've been dealing with the same problems in the english version but could bypass thiss by doing the folowing.
-Just ignore the disk space stuff
-Ignore the charset message, also
-When creating a database, choose custom and then select the WE8ISO8859P1 char set. It worked for portuguese, must work for french also.
-Everyone here recommended, and I do the same, leave the database creation for later, not during instalation.
Good Luck!

Ios 5.0.1 crashing, slow and other problems

I am using an iPhone 4 running 5.0.1 and Im just fed up with it, as much as I loved the iPhone in the past Im afraid I have fallen out of love and I'm conteplating a breakup.
Problems I have had with the version 5.*.* update:
* Safari and the built in youtube app crash at least twice daily and other apps, most notably accuweather and Facebook also crash on a daily basis
* Pages/windows don't load properly, an example of this is the texting app, I open the app and select a converstation, the "messages" button, name and "edit" buttons apear at the top but the area that would disply the text conversation never changes to show the accutual text messages and only pressing the home button and reentering the messages app will fix this.
* I have had text messages compleatly disapear if I recive one while acitivly using the phone, mostly by pressing the home button or preforming other input at the same exact time I recive a text message. I get the popup notification dispalying the text of the message in the notifaction but when I go to reply to the message It is gone, like it never existed.
* Simply navagating the phone such as menus, back buttons, or loading apps is slow. I can out type the keyboard and in general the phone is becoming more and more usless. As an example, wakeing the phone with the home button takes upto a full two seconds for the unlock screen to open, then another full second for the phone to "think" before it unlocks. This is increadibly slow compaired to the previous versions, and much slower than my old iPhone 1 and my non-updated iPhone 3Gs
* I use to have a problem where the purple arrow indicated the phone was using location services about 50% of the time and it was the setting time zone feature. I disabled location services for this feature and it fixed the problem. I did not notice an abnormal battery drain with this problem.
* The keyboard will not hide and/or display at approprate times requireing me to restart the app.
* Notication sounds, mostly incoming SMS sounds dont play at approprate times or play twice a few seconds apart for the same incoming message
* Autocorrect is too easily learning misspelled words leading me to reset the keyboard dictionary too frequently
* Incoming email and SMS messages cause the phone to loudly vibrate while talking on the phone, this is a new problem with ios5. I use to be proud of the iphone for not doing this becasue I talk to people with androids and found the vibration noise very annoying while on the receving end.
My phone is rather clean and I have very few third party apps installed. I use the facebook app, a weather app, and only a few other apps. My storage memory is about half full and thats almost entirly music.
I regualry power cycle and restart my phone, I would say at least once a day.
I have tried to fix the phone by disableing and enableing anything I can find from notifications, location services and icloud and nothing has helped.
I have also tried rebilding the phone, both from a backup, and restored as new. I have taken the phone to an apple store and had them restore it as well, they claim to be able to restore "deeper" than what I can do at home, I assume this is similar to flashing the firmware and not just the software. Doing any kind of restore does seem to help with the speed problem for about 2 days as it slowly gets worse and returns to its ever slow and defective operation.
I have not noticed any problems with my ipad v1 running ios 5.0.1
Two of my freinds complain about a similar experience with ios 5 on the iphone
Does anyone have similar problems or an idea for a fix?
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Here's and update on my problems and here are are some screen shots of the types of problems I've been having since the v5.0.1 update. Keep in mind these are native apps and I have tried the rebuild phone crap many times, nothing helps.
This is screen shot of a what happened when I tried to use my camera one day, both the front and back cameras were all black. I had to power cycle the phone to get rid of this problem. The cameras appeared to be working correctly, I could focus and zoom but it was all black.
Here is an image of what happened when I searched for something in a map. This is after I picked the choice I wanted, the keyboard disappeared but the list didn't. I had to force close the app and restart it for this problem to go away. Who knew five bars on ATT was possible.
And finally this is the messaging app, although you would not know it. I had to return to home screen (after a long pause for it to process the button push) and return to the messaging app. This happens all the time with the messaging app and the notifications sounds drive me crazy. If i'm using the phone, say browsing the web and I get an incoming message its almost 100% of the time the messaging app will screw up. The sound will play at the wrong time or not at all, message will show up in notifications and diasapear in message app or Ill have a problem like this:

Raid setup and other problems,soooo frustrating.

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