Real problem with highlights

Sorry for posting a new one but I am in real trouble here
On a simple menu with 3 buttons that i built in photoshop CS2 I have a nice simulation with the correct highlights appearing on my buttons when I roll over then if i build the DVD the buttons highlights doesn't appear at all.
My menu images and highlights are 720x480 ntsc wide screen pixels
I used a simple color mode in the menu settings
thanks for any precious help

There may be somthing about your overlays that is incompatible with simple color mode, although it appears to work in simulator.
Is your overlay a simple grayscale layer? You might try the advanced color mode. It's a little more complex, but not unusably so. Remember to set both the selected and active colors.

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I'm having a real problem with my cursor which seems to have developed a mind of its own, zigzagging allover, highlighting things without my command, and basically making my MacBook unuseable (it's taken me half an hour just to compose this!).

I'm having a real problem with my cursor which seems to have developed a mind of its own, zigzagging allover, highlighting things without my command, and basically making my MacBook unusable (it's taken me half an hour just to compose this!).

There are several possible causes for this issue. Please take each of the following steps that you haven't already tried until it's resolved. Some may not apply in your case.
1. Follow the instructions in this support article, and also this one, if applicable. A damaged or defective AC adapter could be the cause, even if it's the right kind.
2. Press down all four corners of the trackpad at once and release. If there's any effect, it's likely to be temporary, and in that case the unit must be serviced or replaced.
3. Open the Bluetooth preference pane in System Preferences and delete all pointing devices other than the trackpad, if applicable. Disconnect any USB pointing devices. By a "pointing device," I mean a peripheral that moves the cursor, such as a trackpad, mouse, trackball, or graphics tablet. A plain keyboard is not a pointing device.
4. Start up in safe mode and test, preferably without launching any third-party applications. If you don't have the problem in safe mode, but it comes back when you restart as usual, stop here and post your results. Do the same if you can't start in safe mode. If there was no difference in safe mode, go on to the next step.
5. Reset the System Management Controller.
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7. A swollen battery in a portable computer can impinge on the trackpad from below and cause erratic behavior. If you have trouble clicking the trackpad, this is likely the reason. The battery must be replaced without delay.
8. There's a report that a (possibly defective) Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter can cause the built-in trackpad of a MacBook to behave erratically. If you're using such an adapter, disconnect it and test.
9. There's also a report of erratic cursor movements caused by an external display that was connected but not turned on.
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11. Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store to have the machine and/or external trackpad tested.

Just moved my email from entourage to Mail. Having real problems with getting my signatures to work properly. When adding in a small company logo, windows computers only receive signature as an attachment. Am sending email as Rich Text. Any ideas on a fix

Just moved my email from Entourage to Mail. Having real problems with getting my signatures to work properly despite sending email as Rich Text.
When adding in a small company logo to the signature, PC's / windows computers only receive signature and logo as attachments.
I've tried all possible fixes I can find including getting a PC user to format the logo but no joy. Has anyone experienced this and any ideas on a fix gratefully received.

Send it as html so the signature is an image source URL

REAL problems with iMessage activation same with Face Time

I'm having real problems with IMessage activation same with FaceTime, the phone shows the activation is being made but it does not activate!
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Any ideas guys?!

My daughters had the same problem with both of their iPod Touches. One logged back into iMessage and FaceTime, the other consistently would not login with the same error, "An error occurred during activation. Try again."
Check your date and time. Its likely incorrect. Once the date is corrected. Restart the device.
For what ever reason, some devices lose track of the date. In my case, apparently, my daughters change the date to affect a particular game by advancing the date. Little cheaters. (LOL)
Hope this helps!

I am having real problems with my hotmail account not working on my iMac

I am having real problems with my hotmail account not working on my IMac but works absolutely fine on my Iphone 5. Can anyone help with the setup for iMac. I am with BT for my Broadband. I am cionverned if I route my Hotmail accoutn to GMail will iy stop working on my Ipone.

How are you accessing Hotmail? Via your web browser? Are you using Apple Mail? Outlook?
The answer will be different depending on how you want to access Hotmail.
If you are using an email client (like Apple Mail, Outlook, Entourage, etc.)) then you need to set up a mail account in your email software.
The incoming Hotmail settings are these:
Incoming server: pop3.live.com
User name: Your full Hotmail email address (aka "me @ hotmail.com" or "me @ live.com")
Password: Your Hotmail password
POP port: 995
Use SSL to connect : yes
The outgoing Hotmail settings are:
Outgoing server: smtp.live.com
User name: Your full Hotmail email address
Password: Your Hotmail password
SMTP port: 587 (override the default port if necesssary)
Use SSL to connect : yes

Having Some Real Problems with SSI

Please forgive me if my questions seem inexperienced. I am
just learning how to incorporate server side includes into a new
site I'm working on and am having some real problems getting things
to work properly...
I have been reading everything I can find on SSI's, and have
finally got everything to work properly on my local system,
however, now, I'm having issues after uploading the files to my
server (IX Web Hosting).
According to this document (“How to incorporate
Server-Side Includes into an HTML page “) from the Adobe
Knowledgebase, step number 4 says to…
Text
“Highlight all the text displayed in black and delete it.
The HTML inspector should contain only the information in red. It
is especially important NOT to have <html>, <head>
or<body> tags in the SSI, because this will cause the HTML on
the page to become invalid once the SSI is inserted.”
Text
Well, I tried that, but the code just looks exactly as it
does in the code viewing pane. No RED characters anywhere! So I
just deleted all the <html>, <head>, and <body>
tags and saved the file.
Now, when I insert the SSI into a new html file (which I
saved as .shtml because that’s what my web hosting provider
requires) everything looks great on my local system, but when I
upload the files to my server and try to test the page with the SSI
inserted into it, I get the following error message:
HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date:
Sat, 05 May 2007 19:42:48 GMT X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Connection:
close Content-Type: text/html
404 Object Not Found
Both files are located in the same directory (maybe
that’s a problem?)
My question is simple, exactly what should I absolutely NOT
delete out of the source SSI file? Is there some part of it other
than the content I want to reference that needs to stay in there?
Also, both my server side include file and the html file that
references it are saved with the .shtml extension. Is this wrong?
Or does the ssi file need to be saved with an.ssi extension?
Again, sorry for the amateurish questions, but we all have to
learn sometime right?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
~Greg

Here's an shtml skeleton page -
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>
and here's 'foo.html' -
<p>Hello world</p>
Does that help?
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news:[email protected]...
> Please forgive me if my questions seem inexperienced. I
am just learning
> how
> to incorporate server side includes into a new site I'm
working on and am
> having some real problems getting things to work
properly...
>
> I have been reading everything I can find on SSI's, and
have finally got
> everything to work properly on my local system, however,
now, I'm having
> issues
> after uploading the files to my server (IX Web Hosting).
>
> According to this document (?How to incorporate
Server-Side Includes into
> an
> HTML page ?) from the Adobe Knowledgebase, step number 4
says to?
>
>
Text
?Highlight all the text displayed in black and delete it.
> The
> HTML inspector should contain only the information in
red. It is
> especially
> important NOT to have <html>, <head>
or<body> tags in the SSI, because
> this
> will cause the HTML on the page to become invalid once
the SSI is
> inserted.?
Text
>
> Well, I tried that, but the code just looks exactly as
it does in the code
> viewing pane. No RED characters anywhere! So I just
deleted all the
> <html>,
> <head>, and <body> tags and saved the file.
>
> Now, when I insert the SSI into a new html file (which I
saved as .shtml
> because that?s what my web hosting provider requires)
everything looks
> great on
> my local system, but when I upload the files to my
server and try to test
> the
> page with the SSI inserted into it, I get the following
error message:
>
> HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sat, 05 May
> 2007
> 19:42:48 GMT X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Connection: close
Content-Type:
> text/html
> 404 Object Not Found
>
> Both files are located in the same directory (maybe
that?s a problem?)
>
> My question is simple, exactly what should I absolutely
NOT delete out of
> the
> source SSI file? Is there some part of it other than the
content I want to
> reference that needs to stay in there?
>
> Also, both my server side include file and the html file
that references
> it
> are saved with the .shtml extension. Is this wrong? Or
does the ssi file
> need
> to be saved with an.ssi extension?
>
> Again, sorry for the amateurish questions, but we all
have to learn
> sometime
> right?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> Thanks,
>
> ~Greg
>
>

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i've a problem with the highlighting tool, it can only highlight one word at a time, it isn't possible for me to drag and highlight. i've tried updating but to no avail. in addition, i can't use the snapshoot tool either. basically any function that requires a click-and-drag motion is disabled. i'd greatly appreciate it if a kind soul may help me with this issue please!! thank you very much!

PDF files have to be specially enabled for you to save the contents. It appears the old version of these files had this capability, but the new version does not. Without Acrobat you will be unable to save the files. If these are truly government files, you can try going to the government's website and see if you can download a copy that will allow you to save the form field data.

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When clearing cookies in a browser on a Mac or PC, the user can select which websites are to have their cookies cleared. With iOS it's all or nothing. Clicking "clear cookies" clears all cookies for all sites. THAT is a problem.
I ran into a problem with PayPal. I was developing a test site for local charities to accept donations using PayPal. PayPal offers the user the choice of paying with PayPal or a credit card. Once you make your choice, you are stuck with that choice every time you attempt to donate since your choice is remembered in a cookie. I contacted PayPay to complain. I was told nothing could be done, it uses cookies for convenience and security. My "solution" was to delete cookies for the site and restart a session. There are two problems with that. First, that advice would have to be passed on to every donor and many donors likely do not know how to clear cookies on their iPhones or iPads. The second is the all or nothing problem. Blowing away cookies to satisfy PayPal blows away information like my preferences for BestBuy, Bank of Nova Scotia, etc. Because of a dumb, dumb decision on implementing its site by Paypal its solution is to seriously inconvenience users.
Yesterday, I updated my Scotiabank app on my iPhone and iPad. Now I cannot access the bank with the mobile app. I called tech support and, guess what, the solution is to clear cookies. Once again I pointed out that clearing cookies on iOS is an all or nothing affair and I am unwilling to blow away all cookies to overcome a problem introduced by Scotiabank with its updated app. I gave the examples that my card number will be blown away for every banking and financial site, that shopping site preferences will be gone, etc.
The real sollution to the problem is site-by-site cookie deletion for iOS. Without that, blowing away cookies to satisfy one website's requirement impacts negatively on all the other websites that use cookies. A fix is needed. App developers have to realize this problem too.
Message was edited by: gregfromdeep river

thanks, have done that
posted here because this is an issue that affects EVERY iOS user and raising the issue with iOS users, as well as with Apple, is important

I have had real problems with crashing of firefox. I finally realized it was my smartswipe extension. Why does this happen?

I uninstalled and reinstalled firefox. It still kept crashing. I then disabled a lot of the extensions etc,. Realized it is the smart swipe. They told me it was compatible wtih firefox. It is not. Is there a way to fix this? I really like using smartswipe.

Can you provide your recent Crash IDs here ?? (as described in the following article)
* [[Firefox crashes#w_get-help-fixing-this-crash|Get help fixing this Crash]]
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2.1: problem with Highlights & Shadows

The 2.1 update is amazing. But there seems to be a pretty serious problem with the H&S brick: pushing the Mid Contrast slider too high now results in what looks like solarized blacks. Here's an example: http://homepage.mac.com/leary/Bug/large-1.html
Obviously this is pushed way too high, but the problem is apparent even at lower values and is new to 2.1.
This is from a RAW D40 file but the problem is the same on D80 and D300.
Anyone else seeing this?

Also, with proper use of the recovery and black point sliders, I'd think it would be pretty rare to really crank those "Advanced" values.
There's a creative side to this brick that I find goes beyond simple recovery. I admit to using it less now that we have the definition slider, but it still allows for a certain "look" that I can't get with the other controls. For that, I use the advanced settings a lot and this is a problem that is entirely new to 2.1.
The problem seems to only be dependent on the Mid slider - the amount in the Shadow slider doesn't seem to matter at all. Even at 1.0 on the Shadow slider, pushing Mid C creates this effect.
Obviously going back to Black Point Comp can alleviate the problem, but there's a limit that didn't exist before.
I just noticed that playing with Radius affects it as well. Of course all of this is tied to the black levels in the picture but again, it didn't used to be this way.

Real problem with Z68a-GD65 (G3)

Hi guys,
Just wondering if anyone can help. I'm having some issues with my motherboard, It's got a core i5 2500k in it. I was doing some over clocking, just upping the multi, it was fine at 43 then when i went to 44 it wouldn't boot and have been having all kinds of problem with it now. The BIOS light was flashing so i went into the bios to enable the second bios to reflash the first one, i've reflashed it with the latest bios. One of the problems i am having is that when i press the power button it will either take a few seconds to power up then power off then on (might do that a few times) if i leave it it says the overclocking was unsuccessful even though it's a fresh bios with everything a default. Or sometimes it will power up right away then shut down the fire back up again and boot up normally, also the POST seems to take a long time start, say 15 secs from it powering up to the POST beep and should the beep a short sharp one less than a second or kind of long say about a second? other boards i've used have been a really short fast beep. once the system has started and is in windows it seems to be running fine.
any help would be great
Cheers
Alex
Motherboard - MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3)
Processor - Intel Core i5 2500K
Crucial M4 128GB SSD
Memory - 4GB Corsair XMS3
GPU - MSI N560GTX TI Twin Frozr ll OC Edition
Edimax wireless card
Windows 7 64 bit home edition

Interesting... what you are describing is pretty much what was happening on my system with the initial BIOS installed. There was some kind of a bug that caused the motherboard to switch between BIOS-es after you restarted the PC (happens only on an overclocked system). Basically, after you restart, the system will fail to load the primary BIOS, shut down, and restart again this time loading the secondary BIOS (will work fine). Next time it would fail to load the secondary one, so it would shut down, restart, fail again (I guess attempting to load a tretiary BIOS which this board does not have) and shut down again. At the next attempt the primary BIOS would load just fine and the cycle will begin anew (after each restart)
When it was switching like that it could cause plenty of confusion, since you could have different settings on your primary or secondary BIOS-es, and unless you open the case and look at the BIOS indicators, it's hard to figure out what is happening. From the outside it just looks like the system takes a little longer to load and occasionally restarts few seconds after boot without showing anything.
I got rid of the issue by flashing to the newer BIOS version. But you have tried to do that already (this could fail though - one time it decided to use the multi-update feature and reflashed my primary BIOS from the secondary one again, putting me back on the older BIOS version which brought the issue back). Furthermore, removing the battery should default the settings, removing the overclock (as I have mentioned, the problem seems to arise only when you overclock), meaning that it should have started working normally after that as well.
Still, the symptoms are very much like what I experienced, so I figured I'd post this and perhaps you'll find something of use in it

Problem With Highlighter

Some help here would be appreciated. Attached it a simple textArea with a highlighter. My problem is that once you add some highlighted text, the highlighter still gets applied to all plain text that follows. I wouldn't have expected this behavior.
If you switch to the commented out textArea.append line in addHighlightedTextButtonActionPerformed it works fine except of course I'm not highlighting all of the text I would like.
Any thoughts as to why this is happening?
package test;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Font;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.text.DefaultHighlighter;
public class NewJFrame extends javax.swing.JFrame {
    public NewJFrame() {
        initComponents();
        textArea.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", 0, 11));
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private void initComponents() {
        jScrollPane1 = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
        textArea = new javax.swing.JTextArea();
        addHighlightedTextButton = new javax.swing.JButton();
        addTextButton = new javax.swing.JButton();
        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        textArea.setColumns(20);
        textArea.setRows(5);
        jScrollPane1.setViewportView(textArea);
        addHighlightedTextButton.setText("Add highlighted text");
        addHighlightedTextButton.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                addHighlightedTextButtonActionPerformed(evt);
        addTextButton.setText("Add text");
        addTextButton.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                addTextButtonActionPerformed(evt);
        javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
        getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
        layout.setHorizontalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING, layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addContainerGap()
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING)
                    .addComponent(jScrollPane1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 446, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                    .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                        .addComponent(addTextButton)
                        .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED)
                        .addComponent(addHighlightedTextButton)))
                .addContainerGap())
        layout.setVerticalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING, layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addContainerGap()
                .addComponent(jScrollPane1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 312, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED)
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                    .addComponent(addHighlightedTextButton)
                    .addComponent(addTextButton))
                .addContainerGap())
        pack();
    private void addHighlightedTextButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
        int start = textArea.getText().length();
        String string = "highlighted text";
        textArea.append(string);
        try {
            textArea.getHighlighter().addHighlight(start, start + string.length(), new DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter(Color.RED));
//            textArea.getHighlighter().addHighlight(start, start + string.length() - 1, new DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter(Color.RED));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
    private void addTextButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
        String string = "plain text";
        textArea.append(string);
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new NewJFrame().setVisible(true);
    // Variables declaration - do not modify
    private javax.swing.JButton addHighlightedTextButton;
    private javax.swing.JButton addTextButton;
    private javax.swing.JScrollPane jScrollPane1;
    private javax.swing.JTextArea textArea;
    // End of variables declaration
}

Here is an example. MyHighlightPainter's paintLayer() method is a ripoff of DefaultHighlightPainter's version, but it knows to draw 1 offset "too far:"
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
public class HighlighterExample extends JFrame {
     public HighlighterExample() {
          JPanel cp = new JPanel();
          JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea(20, 50);
          cp.add(new JScrollPane(textArea));
          String text = "This text has a higlight at the end of it.\n" +
               "Normally, if you append to text in a text component just after\n" +
               "a higlight, it gets absorbed into the highlight, thus extending\n" +
               "it. But this higlight won't do that.\n" +
               "Try appending to me and see";
          textArea.setText(text);
          int start = text.length()-5;
          int end = text.length();
          end--; // MyHighlighter knows to draw to (end+1).
          Highlighter h = textArea.getHighlighter();
          MyHighlightPainter p = new MyHighlightPainter();
          try {
               h.addHighlight(start, end, p);
          } catch (BadLocationException ble) {
               ble.printStackTrace();
          setContentPane(cp);
          setTitle("Highlighter Example");
          setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          pack();
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
               public void run() {
                    new HighlighterExample().setVisible(true);
     private class MyHighlightPainter extends DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter {
          public MyHighlightPainter() {
               super(Color.ORANGE);
          public Shape paintLayer(Graphics g, int p0, int p1, Shape viewBounds,
                    JTextComponent c, View view) {
               g.setColor(getColor());
               p1++; // Workaround for Java Highlight issues.
               if (p0 == view.getStartOffset() && p1 == view.getEndOffset()) {
                    // Contained in view, can just use bounds.
                    Rectangle alloc;
                    if (viewBounds instanceof Rectangle) {
                         alloc = (Rectangle) viewBounds;
                    } else {
                         alloc = viewBounds.getBounds();
                    g.fillRect(alloc.x, alloc.y, alloc.width - 1, alloc.height - 1);
                    return alloc;
               // Should only render part of View.
               try {
                    // --- determine locations ---
                    Shape shape = view.modelToView(p0, Position.Bias.Forward, p1,
                              Position.Bias.Backward, viewBounds);
                    Rectangle r = (shape instanceof Rectangle) ? (Rectangle) shape
                              : shape.getBounds();
                    g.fillRect(r.x, r.y, r.width - 1, r.height - 1);
                    return r;
               } catch (BadLocationException e) { // Never happens
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    return null;
}

HT2506 Problem with highlighting - scrambles PDF text after saving

Hi,
I've been having an issue with a PDF which becomes partly scrambled after I edit it (highlighting) and save it. I have tried to find information about this problem but haven't come across anything similar (please redirect me if I am wrong).
The 'scrambled' text is actually a bunch of numbers and symbols.
For ex, the text 'Whether the supervisor is contactable to be able to re-arrange the meeting' now shows up as this:
It seems this is only a display problem as when I select this section and copy paste it elsewhere, it then shows up normallly.
Not all the text is scrambled. It seems to be mainly headings, which all happen to be in bold.
Does anyone know how to stop this from happening?
Cheers.

Does this happen with all PDF's, or only one? If only one, the file is corrupt.

Real Problems With White Balance Tool

I attempted to white balance an image I took using the White Balance eyedropper tool, and selecing an area on a Grey Balance Target. Well, Aperture is doing a horrible job of white balancing the image. With Aperture, I exported the image to Photoshop and white balanced it using levels.
You can see the side by side images here along with the corresponding RGB values. The image on the left, is the one that Aperture "thinks" is white balanced. Since there doesn't seem to be a way to check RGB values within Aperture I can't say what they really are, other than to use OS X's Digital Color Meter, which shows exactly what Photoshop is telling me...the image has a definite blue cast to it.
http://www.johnburdick.us/WhiteBalance.jpg
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or if Aperture's white balance function is not working as advertised..
Any suggestions? Has anyone else had these issues?
PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3 4.5Gb RAM Mac OS X (10.4.2)
PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Apple are being deliberately deceptive on this issue.
I have been to a couple of demo's at their store and watched the demonstrator use the same wedding photo each time to highlight the power of the white balance eye-dropper. I think this is the only photo on the face of the earth to give a half-way decent result from the eye-dropper (and even then it's still a little blue).
When I cornered the demonstrator on this specific issue he tried to use another image (one of the Tibet portraits) and the results were horrible and he was forced to concede that this tool was lousy.
I simply don't believe the software developers weren't aware of the shortcomings of this and yet they still decided to release and insult their customers with it.
But this is a minor issue compared with the overall quality of the images coming out of the RAW adjustments.
I can't understand why photographers are still fighting to make this application work. Sure, as a image selection/management tool it's very nice but beyond that it's garbage.
I've returned my copy to the Apple Store where I purchased it and received a full refund thankfully.

MOVED: Real problem with Z68a-GD65 (G3)

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Undervolting & Modding Corner.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=156176.0

Interesting... what you are describing is pretty much what was happening on my system with the initial BIOS installed. There was some kind of a bug that caused the motherboard to switch between BIOS-es after you restarted the PC (happens only on an overclocked system). Basically, after you restart, the system will fail to load the primary BIOS, shut down, and restart again this time loading the secondary BIOS (will work fine). Next time it would fail to load the secondary one, so it would shut down, restart, fail again (I guess attempting to load a tretiary BIOS which this board does not have) and shut down again. At the next attempt the primary BIOS would load just fine and the cycle will begin anew (after each restart)
When it was switching like that it could cause plenty of confusion, since you could have different settings on your primary or secondary BIOS-es, and unless you open the case and look at the BIOS indicators, it's hard to figure out what is happening. From the outside it just looks like the system takes a little longer to load and occasionally restarts few seconds after boot without showing anything.
I got rid of the issue by flashing to the newer BIOS version. But you have tried to do that already (this could fail though - one time it decided to use the multi-update feature and reflashed my primary BIOS from the secondary one again, putting me back on the older BIOS version which brought the issue back). Furthermore, removing the battery should default the settings, removing the overclock (as I have mentioned, the problem seems to arise only when you overclock), meaning that it should have started working normally after that as well.
Still, the symptoms are very much like what I experienced, so I figured I'd post this and perhaps you'll find something of use in it

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