W520 SSD Success Story

I have just received my new W520, spec'ed up with all the fruit to replace a Dell Precision workstation. The main bits of the W520 spec:
W520 I7 2920
1920x1080 with colour sensor
16gb RAM
500gb Hard drive
DVD optical drive
Quadro 2000M graphics
etc
I decided I would swap out the HD for a OCZ Vertex 3 250gb.
I must admit I was a bit worried reading all the posts about how hard it could be, but it was easy.
Here's what I did...
First create create some back up discs. I used Control Panel then Lenovo - Factory Recovery Disks onto DVD.
That created a Boot Disk and 3 x Recovery discs.
I then switched off the W520, took out the battery and removed the hard drive. The OCZ fits in the bay perfectly, all you have to do is fit the rubber bumpers. The drive fits in the slot and is kept in place by the cover plate on the W520, it has a bar that keeps the drive in place, no screws needed..
NB with no changes to BIOS, I the switched on the the W520 with the Boot CD. The system then fired up, asked for the Recovery discs and Hey Presto.
The system now boots in 20 secs and reports the following Windows Experience Index:
Processor 7.6
Memory 7.6
Graphics (set to discrete) 6.9
Gaming Graphics 6.9
Hard disc 7.9
I then tweeked the system power setting to stop defrag, turn off hard disc etc. and am I happy or what??
No problems here.
Cheers

PS
When I installed the recovery discs, the SSD and system were set up exactly as the laptop was when I received it from Lenovo. The Lenovo recovery partition was there, all the drivers were installed etc etc. The W520 was basically the same as it was when I received it except it now has a turbo boosted hard drive.
The difference is stunning and worth every single cent of the $500 that the SSD cost.
Cheers

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- FedEx service was very helpful
- If you have a NVIDIA graphics card, Mac or PC, check if your model is affected. Just today Sony announced that NVIDIA cards with defects will now be covered for 4 years out of warranty. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10307592-64.html)
- Back up your stuff NOW. Use a flash drive or email files to yourself for a cheap fix.
Roland

ha
got the same problem with my mbp (dec 2007)
also no video within 5 hours .... also no external video.
lucky i had screen sharing on so i could check the system profiler via an other mac.
It couldn't find the 6800M GT anymore...
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took a print out of Apple Knowledge base article that described the defect (TS2377)
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Thank you all at Apple and the discussion boards too!
God Bless,
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Lee:
What a beautiful story! And how well you tell it!
In a sense your story is every mac user's story, only the names and details are different. We love our macs, even when they challenge us.
Thank you for reminding us of the satisfaction and thrill of owning a mac.
Good luck.
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Pismo400, 100 GB 5400 Toshiba internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS 10.4.3 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Beige G3 OS 8.6

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Anyway much of what people write are in regard to problems they are having. I thought I would share my GOOD NEWS with you for a change!

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To obtain a full System Profiler Report, select "About This Mac" from the Apple Menu and click the "More Info" button. This automatically launches the System Profiler application. Once the System Profiler application has been launched please follow the steps below:
1. Select "View > Full Profile" from the File menu (cmd-3)
2. Select "Save" from the File menu (cmd-s)
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4. Click the "Save" button
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In the meantime we contacted Apple to see how much repair would cost (we had no AppleCare) and we quoted something like £300.
After a full 4 days we took the phone and tried turning it on. Still nothing. I'd read somewhere that the phone shouldn't be plugged in to a charger but thought it would be worth a shot. After a couple of seconds the 'empty battery' 'please plug me in' symbol flashed up...there was life.
10 minutes later we checked the phone and yes, it was charging and yes it turned on! The phone received a load of backed up messages, connected to the Internet and most apps were working fine. Not all was working, the camera shutter wouldn't open and the screen looked very wet or damaged.
Hanging onto this miracle we decided to unplug the phone to avoid any issues and put it back into hibernation in its box of rice. After 2 more days the camera and all other apps were working perfectly. There was still an issue with the display. It looked better but still not 100%. We called a cowboy phone repair company to ask whether they could do anything with it, they believed there might be a corroded connection in the display and suggested speaking to Apple. Apple would fix it for £150. After further diliberation we decided to give it some more time to dry out.
Over 10 days we returned to the phone to find an almost perfect screen. Unless you tilt it to an angle there would be no sign of water damage. Success! Lets just hope it holds out in the long run.
I wanted to give anyone who has taken water damage to their iPhone some hope that with some patience you can save yourself a lot of money by just putting your wet phone in a box of rice in a warm place and leaving it for 2+ weeks. Even after a thrashing around a washing machine.

Hi WildTort! I would like to know if your phone continued to work? Did the camera ever start working?
I did the exact same thing: sent my iPhone 5 through a full wash cycle, set it into rice for almost 2 weeks, it's now working (everything except for the camera) although there are a few 'issues' with dropped calls and other blips.
Do you think I should let it sit for a longer time without being turned on, or should i take the whole thing apart and try to clean it of corrosion in alcohol?
(I have only a month to go before my contract expires)
thanks for your help!

Insearch of a BC4J Success Story

I have a question about BC4J. Are there any success stories of projects developed using BC4J? If there are some then may i know the companies, project domain, complexity, size, duration of such projects? (Only concerned in projects which are successfully deployed and are mission-critical with support for more than 1000 concurrent users)
I am currently exploring BC4J for a new project. Your help will be highly regarded.
Thanks
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I've only tried two rather simple projects but both were successful. I created an imovie project (unlike imovie 5 imovie 6 recognized my Canon ZR 60 camera, it took to updates in imovie 5 to fix that). Noted that under the chapter tab in imovie there is no send to iDVD.
In opening iDVD i dragged the imovie project file onto a new theme. I got two error notices that iDVD said needed to be fixed before it would burn to a DVD. One of them was because I didn't fill in all the thumbnails. There is an triangle that will give you a cluse as to what's wrong. After that I did a save and then did a save as disc image. That process was the same as idvd 5 EXCEPT that encoding audio now has its own progress bar just like video. Only the progress goes much faster.
So the error notices are a big help, will undoubtley cut down on the frustration level as well as the audio progress bar.
I played a bit with various settings but didn't try them yet.
Gets five stars in my book.
Bob

Okay, I must add an important caveat to my claim about a progress bar for audio.
There is one, but just be aware that it takes several minutes or many many minutes after the progress bar for video is done before the progress bar for audio appears. During the interim, the action is the same as iDVD5/4. The burn whell stops and the progresss bar for video stops.
Haven't the slightest idea why there is such a long pause.
Bob

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Hi all
Just wanted to share that I have successfully setup AEBS with Western Digital MyBook USB disk + HP PSC 2210 printer, for anyone with a similar setup. I can connect from my Vista laptop to both the usb shared disk and print to the printer.
For the printer setup I used Bonjour for Windows, but it initially didn't work. I setup Raw print mode. Event Viewer showed an "access is denied" message. From editing the properties of the printer that was setup by Bonjour (went into Ports and chose Configure Port for the IP port setup by Bonjour) and changed Printer Name or IP Address to the IP address of AEBS, and made sure port number was 9100. Then the printing worked fine via AEBS.
The MyBook configuration was almost automatic, the only unexpected gotcha was that AEBS created a new toplevel "Shared" folder, and shared that out.
Anyway hope that helps confirm compatibility of these pieces of hardware
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Aim: Add an eSATA external drive to a QIP 7232 2.
Note: Links are to products on Amazon, but other vendors sell the same equipment.
1. Purchase a Western Digital AV-GP 2 TB AV Hard Drive, 3.5 Inch, SATA II, 64 MB Cache - WD20EURS, $109. Two terabytes, and designed for stressful AV applications.
2. Purchase a Vantec NexStar 3 NST-360SU-BK External Hard Drive Enclosure, $32. This device comes with an eSATA cable but I used instead an 18" cable I bought on Amazon for $5 (no dust-collecting coils of eSATA cable stuffed behind the DVR!). Eighteen inches is ample.
3. Insert drive into enclosure. If you don't want a very bright flashing blue light disturbing your television viewing, do not connect the LED power wire to the front panel of the external drive.
4. Aftermakingsuretheexternaldriveisturnedoff, pluginitspowersupplyand connect the drive to the DVR with the eSATAcable.
5. Turn on the external drive.
That's all it took. I can't remember whether the DVR immediately recognized the drive or whether I had to go to Settings/DVR to kick off this process, but whatever happened, it was simple and quick. There was no lengthy disk formatting process -- less than a minute after I turned on the drive it was ready to accept recordings.
I was astonished at the simplicity of the whole process and gratified to find that my existing recordings were untouched. I can't imagine any way in which Verizon could have made this process easier or quicker.

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