W701 SSD won't start, intermittent problem

I've had this problem since the computer was still on warranty, but it was so infrequent then that it wasn't likely to happen while tech was looking at the computer. It seemed pointless to complain or try to get it fixed. Lately it has been getting worse and worse.
It is 3 and a half years old and this has been the only serious problem, so I'm hoping for a way around it. When I press the power button to start it, it takes 2 or 3 seconds for the first visual to come on. It has the Thinkpad, Lenovo and Intel logos on it, and says: 'To interrupt normal startup, press the blue ThinkVantage button.'
That's as far as it gets. After that nothing happens, no drive activity at all and nothing I can do but shut it off. When it first started I was living near the Pacific and humidity was high, about 50$ most of the time. It didn't affect any other computer in the house but seemed to be partly responsible for this problem.
I would take the drives and the dvd player out, open the machine up as much as I could, and draw air through it with a vacuum hose. When I put it together again it usually started first try, but lately this has failed too.
For awhile I was thinking it was a problem with the drive. It wasn't the typical SSD failure, but maybe some weird problem with it. But the next thing I did seems to indicate something else.
I switched the C and D drives. (C is an SSD, D is a HD.) Starting on D didn't have the same problem. It wouldn't go too far because it didn't have an operating system but it was working and looking for a disk it could boot from. Both times I tried this, when I put the drives back where they belonged, the puter did start properly.
Or maybe it is just one of the connecting pins in the wiring from the laptop to C. Hooking up D might have helped to straighten it out, clean it, or whatever. Would I be able to buy the harness that connects C to the laptop and replace it?
The drives are certainly easy add or remove, but I don't know about the wiring. At least the wiring should be a lot cheaper.
So any thoughts or ideas? Anything I haven't been clear enough about?
It has mostly been a decent machine otherwise. I'd be happy to replace both the C drive and the wiring if that would take care of the problem. But I'd have to do those myself as I don't expect I could afford the charges by the tech people.

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W701 Lenovo SSD won't start, intermittent problem

specs:
I think of W701 as the model number, but Lenovo considers it to be 4323CTO
It used to have a Lenovo 128 GB SSD as the C drive, with a 360 GB HD for the secondary drive. Now I've replaced the original SSD with a Samsung 512 GB SSD.
Running Windows 8 now, but it was doing the same on 7. It does seem to be a hardware problem.
This is an unusual problem. I posted here a couple of months ago. I have made a bit of progress since then, mostly in finding out what doesn't work.
It used to be an intermittent problem, but now it's frequent. It's happened since the computer was still on warranty, but it was so infrequent then that it wasn't likely to happen while tech was looking at the computer. It seemed pointless to complain or try to get it fixed. Lately it has been getting worse and worse.
It is 3 and a half years old and this has been the only serious problem, so I'm hoping for a way around it. When I press the power button to start it, it takes 2 or 3 seconds for the first visual to come on. It has the Thinkpad, Lenovo and Intel logos on it, and says: 'To interrupt normal startup, press the blue ThinkVantage button.'
That's as far as it gets. After that nothing happens, no drive activity at all and nothing I can do but shut it off. There is no response to the mouse or to pressing any key. Pressing the Thinkvantage button also does nothing. It would sometimes do this at least 50 times in a row.
What would get it going in those cases was:
1. leaving it for a few days or a week without touching it or
2. removing the SSD, replacing it with the HD (which would attempt to start but had no OS installed) and then switching back.
On one of these forums, someone described a problem that had some things in common with mine. It turned out his SSD was dying and when he replaced it, everything worked. I thought that might be it and replaced the drive. It worked for awhile but now it started with the same problem. (sigh)
I suppose it might be an intermittent connection between the SSD and the rest of the computer. Replacing that wiring harness would be my next guess but there might be other possibilities. I suppose any small electronic part involved in the start up process could be at fault.
Except for this problem it has mostly been a decent machine. It has a 17 inch, 16:10 screen which might not even be available now and I appreciate that size. I would like to get this restored.
tia

Thank you practical, that struck me as a great idea.
The little problem with it is getting an OS on the drive. I do have an image restore for Win 7, and after that it would take installing 8.1 again, so just a bit of work. But it seems clear to me now that the SSDs were not the problem. I basically agree with your comment:
"It sounds to me more likely, especially given the intermittent difficulties you have had in the past, that there might be an issue with the SATA electronics on the main board -- a tiny crack in a wiring trace, cable not fully seated in a socket (or perhaps contacts a little corroded) a flakey chip somewhere, etc."
I think the most likely possible solution now is to replace the motherboard. I saw someone else with a problem that had something in common with mine; he mentioned that he solved it by doing that. That would fit in with one of your comments. " there might be an issue with the SATA electronics on the main board."
So I started checking around at Lenovo.com and got the part number. I was able to talk to sales twice to confirm that it is the correct part number, and they transferred me to parts to find out about price and availability. Both times the parts person could not hear me, after having a normal conversation with sales. It seems like their phone system has some kind of problem with transfers. I called back 2 more times to let sales know about the problem, and got busy signals.
I had phone problems that I posted about in my T530i laptop problems topic. I had at least 3 calls that could not be completed by their system, and I'm starting to wonder about them getting anything fixed if they can't take care of that.
So I checked out the motherboard at http://www.sparepartswarehouse.com/IBM-Lenovo,Thinkpad,W701,4323000,Laptop,System-Boards.aspx They didn't have one in stock, and all the guy could tell me is that it would be more than $600 if they did get one in. I did appreciate even that much info. It was more than I had been able to get from the other supplier. I did see one on another site while searching that was over $1000 so I expect the $600 is low.
But this is getting seriously discouraging. This might change, but right now I feel like getting a Toshiba or something and just giving up on Lenovo. The prices of new laptops aren't that much now.
But thanks again for your comment. It jolted a bit of thinking, and most of the research I've mentioned in this post.

IMac won't Start - weird problem

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I have an iMac revision B running Tiger. During the last several days I had my government e-mail being forwarded to my mac due to my being out of the office. Apparently the mailbox in my government account became full and the NavyMarineCorps Instranet (NMCI) sent a bunch of messages saying my mailbox was full and blocked me from sending mail until I emptied it. I obviously could not do that until I got back to the office.
Well after that my iMac started acting strange. First the mail froze and then wouldn't let me restart mail mail saying my home folder was full. I shut down my machine hopeing to correct the problem and now it won't restart. It gets the gray screen and twirling ball and then the fans kick in at full speed but nothing else.
Any suggestions? Help please.

Have you tried booting up from the DVD that shipped with the iMac? Do this and make sure you actually have room on your hard drive. If so, slecet the drive in utilities and repair permissions.
Leave a message with additional details and someone will no doubt be able to assist you.
Also, if you have Applecare, (or maybe within the warranty phone call period) it would be worth a call to Apple tech support and they would be able to assist you as well.

OPMN: OC4J_SECURITY won't start - SSO problems

Hi,
After restoring our infrastructure database and oracle home from backups I am unable to get the OC4J_SECURITY to start. I had to really fiddle around with the restoration and it's possible I mucked something up there. Here are relevant parts of the logs, I'm hoping someone can advise me what the problem is and what I can do to fix it:
e:\oracle\product\10.1.4\identdev\opmn\logs\OC4J~OC4J_SECURITY~default_island~1
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09/09/13 11:02:49 Start process
09/09/13 11:02:53 Warning: Error reading transaction-log file (/E:/oracle/product/10.1.4/identdev/j2ee/OC4J_SECURITY/persistence/OC4J_SECURITY_default_island_1/transaction.state) for recovery: premature end of file
09/09/13 11:02:53 Forced or abrupt (crash etc) server shutdown detected, starting recovery process...
09/09/13 11:02:53 Recovery completed, 0 connections committed and 0 rolled back...
09/09/13 11:02:55 SSOLoginServlet.init: Starting up SSO server ...
09/09/13 11:02:55 Initilize NLS utility...
09/09/13 11:02:55 Reading SSO server policy....
09/09/13 11:02:55 SSO: Entered FilePolicyManager constructor ...
09/09/13 11:02:55 SSO: FilePolicyManager: done loading the E:\oracle\product\10.1.4\identdev\sso\conf\policy.properties file
09/09/13 11:02:55 SSO: Leaving FilePolicyManager constructor ...
09/09/13 11:02:55 SSODebug: Done loading the debug file, E:/oracle/product/10.1.4/identdev/sso/log/ssoServer.log
09/09/13 11:02:57 SSO: Initializing the encryption objects failed
09/09/13 11:02:57 oracle.security.sso.server.conf.ConfigurationException: Missing SSO server configuration
09/09/13 11:02:57 at oracle.security.sso.server.conf.DatabaseConfigReader.init(DatabaseConfigReader.java:444)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at oracle.security.sso.server.auth.AuthUtil.init(AuthUtil.java:194)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at oracle.security.sso.server.ui.SSOLoginServlet.init(SSOLoginServlet.java:284)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:258)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.loadServlet(HttpApplication.java:2358)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.findServlet(HttpApplication.java:4800)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.initPreloadServlets(HttpApplication.java:4894)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.initDynamic(HttpApplication.java:1026)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.<init>(HttpApplication.java:560)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.Application.getHttpApplication(Application.java:915)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpServer.getHttpApplication(HttpServer.java:707)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpSite.initApplications(HttpSite.java:637)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpSite.setConfig(HttpSite.java:278)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpServer.setSites(HttpServer.java:278)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpServer.setConfig(HttpServer.java:179)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServer.initializeHttp(ApplicationServer.java:2435)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServer.setConfig(ApplicationServer.java:1592)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServerLauncher.run(ApplicationServerLauncher.java:92)
09/09/13 11:02:57 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
09/09/13 11:02:57 SSO: FAILED TO START SSO SERVER!
=============================================================================================================================
E:\oracle\product\10.1.4\identdev\sso\logs\ssoserver.log
=============================================================================================================================
Sun Sep 13 10:53:22 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher DBConnectionPool: Checking for DB connection errors..
Sun Sep 13 10:53:22 WST 2009 [ERROR] Orion Launcher SSO Server initialization failed. Check the DB availability and restart SSO Server
Sun Sep 13 10:53:22 WST 2009 [ERROR] Orion Launcher Initializing the encryption/decryption objects failed
oracle.security.sso.server.conf.ConfigurationException: Missing SSO server configuration
 at oracle.security.sso.server.conf.DatabaseConfigReader.init(DatabaseConfigReader.java:444)
 at oracle.security.sso.server.auth.AuthUtil.init(AuthUtil.java:194)
 at oracle.security.sso.server.ui.SSOLoginServlet.init(SSOLoginServlet.java:284)
 at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:258)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.loadServlet(HttpApplication.java:2358)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.findServlet(HttpApplication.java:4800)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.initPreloadServlets(HttpApplication.java:4894)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.initDynamic(HttpApplication.java:1026)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.<init>(HttpApplication.java:560)
 at com.evermind.server.Application.getHttpApplication(Application.java:915)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpServer.getHttpApplication(HttpServer.java:707)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpSite.initApplications(HttpSite.java:637)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpSite.setConfig(HttpSite.java:278)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpServer.setSites(HttpServer.java:278)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpServer.setConfig(HttpServer.java:179)
 at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServer.initializeHttp(ApplicationServer.java:2435)
 at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServer.setConfig(ApplicationServer.java:1592)
 at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServerLauncher.run(ApplicationServerLauncher.java:92)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
Sun Sep 13 11:02:55 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher Done loading Policy Configurations
Sun Sep 13 11:02:55 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher Login Page Value: /sso/pages/login.jsp
Sun Sep 13 11:02:55 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher Change password Page location: /sso/pages/password.jsp
Sun Sep 13 11:02:55 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher Wireless Login Page location: /wirelesssso/wirelesslogin.jsp
Sun Sep 13 11:02:55 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher Wireless Change password Page location: /wirelesssso/wirelesscpwd.jsp
Sun Sep 13 11:02:55 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher Calling Initialization Methods ...
Sun Sep 13 11:02:55 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher Connection pool inactivity timeout (mins) 120
Sun Sep 13 11:02:55 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher SSO Admin Group: cn=iASAdmins,cn=Groups,cn=OracleContext
Sun Sep 13 11:02:55 WST 2009 [INFO] Orion Launcher Entered DBConnectionPool.init method ...
Sun Sep 13 11:02:56 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher Repository API returned - DB conn string: ldap://agspsrap01.agric.wa.gov.au:13061/infradev,cn=oraclecontext
Sun Sep 13 11:02:56 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher Setting max number of connections to 150 in the DB cache pool
Sun Sep 13 11:02:56 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher Setting minimum number of connections to 0 in the DB cache pool
Sun Sep 13 11:02:56 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher JDBC pool InactivityTimeout (secs) 7200
Sun Sep 13 11:02:56 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher JDBC pool PropertyCheckInterval(secs) 900
Sun Sep 13 11:02:56 WST 2009 [INFO] Orion Launcher Leaving DBConnectionPool.init method ...
Sun Sep 13 11:02:56 WST 2009 [INFO] Orion Launcher Entered DBConnectionPool.getConnection method ...
Sun Sep 13 11:02:57 WST 2009 [INFO] Orion Launcher Leaving DBConnectionPool.getConnection method ...
Sun Sep 13 11:02:57 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher SQL Exception received: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception
ORA-06512: at "ORASSO.WWCTX_SSO", line 1579
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("ORASSO"."WWCTX_SSO_SESSION$"."SUBSCRIBER_ID")
ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception
ORA-06512: at "ORASSO.WWCTX_SSO", line 1579
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("ORASSO"."WWCTX_SSO_SESSION$"."SUBSCRIBER_ID")
ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception
ORA-06512: at "ORASSO.WWCTX_SSO", line 1579
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("ORASSO"."WWCTX_SSO_SESSION$"."SUBSCRIBER_ID")
ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception
ORA-06512: at "ORASSO.WWCTX_SSO", line 1579
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("ORASSO"."WWCTX_SSO_SESSION$"."SUBSCRIBER_ID")
ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception
ORA-06512: at "ORASSO.WWCTX_SSO", line 1579
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("ORASSO"."WWCTX_SSO_SESSION$"."SUBSCRIBER_ID")
ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception
ORA-06512: at "ORASSO.WWCTX_SSO", line 1579
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("ORASSO"."WWCTX_SSO_SESSION$"."SUBSCRIBER_ID")
ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception
ORA-06512: at "ORASSO.WWCTX_SSO", line 1579
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("ORASSO"."WWCTX_SSO_SESSION$"."SUBSCRIBER_ID")
ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception
ORA-06512: at "ORASSO.WWCTX_SSO", line 1579
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-01403: no data found
Sun Sep 13 11:02:57 WST 2009 [DEBUG] Orion Launcher DBConnectionPool: Checking for DB connection errors..
Sun Sep 13 11:02:57 WST 2009 [ERROR] Orion Launcher SSO Server initialization failed. Check the DB availability and restart SSO Server
Sun Sep 13 11:02:57 WST 2009 [ERROR] Orion Launcher Initializing the encryption/decryption objects failed
oracle.security.sso.server.conf.ConfigurationException: Missing SSO server configuration
 at oracle.security.sso.server.conf.DatabaseConfigReader.init(DatabaseConfigReader.java:444)
 at oracle.security.sso.server.auth.AuthUtil.init(AuthUtil.java:194)
 at oracle.security.sso.server.ui.SSOLoginServlet.init(SSOLoginServlet.java:284)
 at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:258)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.loadServlet(HttpApplication.java:2358)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.findServlet(HttpApplication.java:4800)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.initPreloadServlets(HttpApplication.java:4894)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.initDynamic(HttpApplication.java:1026)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.<init>(HttpApplication.java:560)
 at com.evermind.server.Application.getHttpApplication(Application.java:915)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpServer.getHttpApplication(HttpServer.java:707)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpSite.initApplications(HttpSite.java:637)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpSite.setConfig(HttpSite.java:278)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpServer.setSites(HttpServer.java:278)
 at com.evermind.server.http.HttpServer.setConfig(HttpServer.java:179)
 at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServer.initializeHttp(ApplicationServer.java:2435)
 at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServer.setConfig(ApplicationServer.java:1592)
 at com.evermind.server.ApplicationServerLauncher.run(ApplicationServerLauncher.java:92)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
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If anyone can give me a clue what to do about this I would be greatly appreciative
Thanks
Adam

The RDBMS with the metadata repository was down or has been restarted. Please restart your OID and SSO and it should work again. (remember to remove all data from table ods.ods_process after stopping OID and before restarting OID)
If not, please post the contents of the OPMN logging of OID and OC4J_SECURITY.

IBook won't start - serious problem

My G4 iBook is in some serious trouble.
While I was working, my iBook suddenly shut down, and I couldn't reboot it since.
Whenever I try to press the power button, I can hear the fan for a split second, before it turns down by itself.
I am not sure if the motherboard died, or the power system has failed.
Please help. Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions
Do you have Apple Care? This situation would be covered under warranty.
Do you live near any of the Apple Stores in the Toronto area? If you're not sure, go to the Apple main web page to locate stores in your area. At the bottom left of the page, click on the drop down menu to search for Apple stores. Near the bottom of the list you'll see the Toronto locations. From what you describe, It sounds like a power supply failure. Someone at the Genius Bar (you need to make an appointment in advance) can assist you.
Otherwise, bring the machine to a nearby certified Apple tech.

Bridge won't launch from CS3 - intermittent problem

Hi folks I dont think I am alone in experiencing this problem as a quick google threw up other sufferers but the suggested fix update everything at the Adobe website has not fixed the problem, so I am hoping that someone here can shed some light. Problem 1; Bridge will sometimes not open from CS3 - ie when I click on the icon , or if Bridge is set up to open automatically when CS3 opens, I sometimes get an error message that reads error 2:Photoshop is undefined. Line: 1 ->photoshop10.invoke bridge (false, false, ); When this happens Bridge will still open fine from the start menu, so it is not disastrous but is annoying because the keyboard shortcut <shift ctrl W > won't work either (to close a file in CS3 and bring the Bridge window up on screen) - a similar error message is received when using Shift Ctrl W as when trying to open bridge. Problem 2; the fly out menus will not remain on screen. Eg if I have a layer and want to access the blend mode menu - if I click on the menu in the layer palette the menu appears for a second and then disappears. Problem 3: If I try to create a new action as soon as I click on the "new action" in the actions palette the word "scripts" appears multiple times in the action - it just produces line after line of this until I click the button to stop the action. Problem 4 (may be related to problem 2 ?); in the crop tool - I can't get the cursor to remain in the width and height boxes - so I can't control the dimensions of the crop (which is currently stuck at my last size of 3 x 4 cm - not much use to man nor beast). Most frustratingly of all - these are all intermittent problems. Things I have tried - updating CS3 and bridge from Adobe site, opening CS3 and bridge before any other program, not running any other program at the same time, uninstalling and reinstalling (after disabling all antivirus etc stuff), but so far nothing works. I am using a 1 year old Dell PC, lots of RAM and hard drive available, only working from internal drives, no new hardware or software loaded (although there might have been a windows update - but this occurred after the problems started and has not noticeably changed things). Windows XP pro. Recently done whole system scan for viruses etc and no problems found. Please help, this has been going on since I loaded CS3 a few months ago and it is driving me nuts. Thanks Amanda D'Arcy

Amanda - One consistent recommendation that has fixed a lot of problems, especially if program worked before, and does not now, is to reset preferences. This is not the same as uninstalling and reinstalling, as the preference file is not affected with that operation.
Since it is intermittent problem this will probably not help, but worth a shot.
When it does not work is there some process that is running, like a anti-virus scan, or?
What about startup scripts in Bridge? Disable any you do not need.

Windows Vista won't start or install - firmware or EFI problem?

I am running Snow Leopard on a 2.4GHz MacBook Pro, late 08 - early 09 model. I have been using boot camp to run Vista for the past year with no problem. This morning, I tried to start up Vista and it wasn't working. I got the option key screen to choose between OSX and Vista, but after choosing vista, the cursor blinks once and I get a black screen. The computer is quiet and nothing seems to be running.
At first I thought it was a boot camp problem. So I went into OSX, de-partitioned the drive, and repartitioned it. I then stuck the Vista install disk in, and clicked through the boot camp assistant to reinstall. The computer restarted to begin the reinstall process, but instead of starting the install disk, it did the same thing - a single blip of cursor, and then a black screen.
I'm not technically savvy, but that seems like it's not a Windows problem, but a firmware or EFI problem. The computer will run OSX, but it won't run boot camp and it won't start from a CD-ROM. The only other steps I've taken are to run Software Update and the Disk Utility from Safari. Neither helped. I'm out of warranty and would love to be able to fix it without spending tons of money. Any help is appreciated.

open terminal, run the following command:
sudo gpt -r show -l /dev/disk0
(press return, enter admin password, press return again)
output should look something like this:
Betsy7:~ kj$ sudo gpt -r show -l /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - "EFI System Partition"
409640 316879664 2 GPT part - "RAPTOR"
317289304 262144
317551448 200889128 3 GPT part - "RAPTOR2"
518440576 262144
518702720 67287033 4 GPT part - "XP"
585989753 82582
586072335 32 Sec GPT table
586072367 1 Sec GPT header
The first line:
"gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0"
should be identical to mine. If the "Suspicious MBR"
line is missing, then it is a GPT problem, which indicates
that the MBR information is missing or more likely corrupt.
also the second and third lines will read:
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
instead of:
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
If the MBR info in the GPT partition is corrupt or missing,
then (obviously) Windows won't be bootable.
The only tool reliably capable (that I know of) of repairing (rebuilding) the GPT/EFI
without wiping off all partitions and repartitioning the drive
is iPartition:
http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php
The command line program "gpt" is incomplete, so use
it at your own risk:
BUGS
The development of the gpt utility is still work in progress. Many necessary features
are missing or partially implemented. In practice this means that the manual page,
supposed to describe these features, is farther removed from being complete or useful.
As such, missing functionality is not even documented as missing. However, it is believed
that the currently present functionality is reliable and stable enough that this tool can be used
without bullet-proof footware if one thinks one does not make mistakes.
http://17.254.2.129/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/gp t.8.html
Kj ♘

Macbook w/ whole slew of problems...Won't Start Up, Disk Utility Can't Repair Disk, Horizontal Lines on Screen, Etc.

I purchased my Macbook in the summer of 2011 and before it went berserk it was running Mavericks. 3 years later, it's finally seemed to have run its course.
It won't start up normally and it won't start up on safe boot. Attempting to use disk utility to repair the disk only gives me the message: "Disk utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible." There are also horizontal lines across the start screen (before it inevitably shuts down) and the screen looks very faintly purple-ish/off-colored.
This actually didn't come out of the blue. On Monday, my macbook suddenly froze, went white, and beeped three beeps repeatedly. I restarted it and backed up all my important work files and set up an appointment at the genius bar for Friday once work ended. It remained buggy during this process with the beeps returning an occasionally a blue screen popping up.
Unfortunately, there wasn't enough space to back up my important photos and by the time I returned on the next day with an external hard drive to store them on, my macbook would no longer turn on.
Is there anything I can do to bring my macbook back to life? Ideally I'd like for it to last one more year before I graduate college. Is it still salvageable, and if so, is it worth salvaging?

I hate to spread gloom, but that computer has serious problems. The only people who can diagnose the problem(s) are technicians. I would take it back to the Apple store for further testing.
Barry

Classic won't start, can't upgrade, and other problems...

There's something not quite right with my Mac, and I can't quite pinpoint it. Because of this, I'm not even certain I'm posting this in the right forum! Here's the situation:
I have a PowerMac G4, upgraded with a an extra hard drive, an ATI Radeon Pro graphics card, a Sonnet Duet G4 Dual 1.8GHz processor, and (as of today, prior to this 10.4.7) am running OSX 10.4.8.
When I got the machine, it came with OS 9.1 installed. I later upgraded to 9.2.2, and then eventually to OSX. My Classic system folder stayed at 9.2.2
About 10 days ago I installed the Sonnet processor upgrade. In order to do so, I had to rejig my system a bit, as the installer for the upgrade only works in 9.2 and not Classic (yeah, bad call on Sonnet's part).
I partitioned my Back-Up drive, and installed 9.2 on it, installed the software for the processor, and then the processor itself. After checking everything worked, I then unpartitioned my Back-Up drive and removed OS9.2.
Although the processor works fine, and has doubled the speed of most tasks, ever since it was installed, I have been prone to crashes. Most often when working with large files in various applications such as Photoshop.
Also, Classic won't start now. I hardly ever use Classic these days, only for one or two tiny programs I could live without, but the fact that it refuses to start is niggling me. I reinstalled OS9.1 from my original disk, and now I can't upgrade to 9.2: all that happens is I get a message saying that I have 9.1 and that it is recommended I upgrade to 9.2! But Classic won't open, so I can't upgrade to 9.2.
The next thing that's started happening is that my broadband connection keeps dropping. This never happened before. This is happening so frequently it's really annoying; the only thing that cures it is a restart, but restarting 10 times a day isn't funny. I'm using an Alcatel Speedtouch ADSL modem. This has worked fine for over a year.
Yesterday I tried setting up a wireless connection with a Belkin router, replacing my USB modem, so my wife can use her Windows laptop to surf from the same broadband connection (my Mac doesn't need to be wireless enabled itself). But this hasn't worked, even though we followed the instruction manual exactly. I suspect that the reason this hasn't worked was because of the underlying problem on my Mac, whatever it is. I've gone back to using the Speedtouch modem to connect to the internet for now.
I've just today done a complete system reinstall of OSX 10.4, and downloaded the upgrade to 10.4.8, in an effort to solve this. Unfortunately, my Mac still seems to be in the same state and it hasn't solved anything. Classic still won't open, the connection still keeps dropping, and I'm almost at the point of kicking the **** thing through a window! Please, has anyone got any bright ideas? I don't know where to start....
G4 Digital Audio Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi, thanks for responding.
I've made a couple of changes, double-checked everything, and I have to say that now 10.4.8 has been on my machine for a few days, it's a lot more stable. No crashes. Maybe it just needed to "settle in", ha ha. I also got a router and went wireless, something I needed to do so my wife could use her laptop to get online. This seems to have solved the connection dropping.
So the only thing left is not being able to open Classic. I think maybe you're right, and the new processor doesn't like Classic. But, to tell the truth, I hardly ever use Classic anymore, and I can live without it. So I think I'll leave everything as it is for now, unless something major happens. I spent nearly £500 on the processor upgrade, and it has doubled the speed of my Mac: I really don't want to have to take it out:-)

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