We are SEVEN!

(Illustration credit: supermod Erik - who also came up with most of the Communities' graphics and our 5th year anniversary logo.)
Slightly more than three years ago I was approached about a role within the Lenovo Forums Community, and being a non-techie, was fascinated by the folks I saw active here.
There was just so much being shared, and people weren't selfish at all about helping others; in fact, there were (and still are) community users who spend most of their time here, just wanting to help - with no strings attached or expectations whatsoever.
I was amazed then, and am still amazed now - and salute you.
As we enter our seventh year of operations, and grow even bigger, on a personal note I am really looking forward to meeting new people and making new friends from around the world. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for being on the journey with us. I am truly blessed to be working with the group of moderators and gurus (and the community at large), and have really learned a lot the past few years here.
And I am not the only one. Here's a few thoughts from some of the very special people who have grown with us along the way:
“It’s not easy to be where we are today which was from zero to 400k+ registered users, and we grew from initially 18,000 topics first year to now 32,000 topics, and this sheer volume is growing still.
It’s like watching a baby growing into a young adult. There is now more attention given to Lenovo Forums by online users, and I am so proud to tell others that I’m part of the forum team. More and more great volunteers have joined our squad and become forum advocates and I am so happy to work with them.
With anything there will of course be growing challenges and there is no finish line so we have to keep moving forward. There are 4 language communities at the moment and we are looking at expanding even more.
Can't wait. Hang in there Lenovo Forums. Happy 7th birthday.”
- English Community Lead, Cleo_Lenovo
"Like most of my work, the idea came to me late at night during a bout of insomnia. A lack of sleep can be quite inspirational—even if unintentional. The original graphics from the early forum days surrounded a birthday cake concept. As the forum matured I felt a more grown-up design was appropriate. Maybe we'll see another TrackPoint cake next year. It's good to mix things up.
I can only hope that my contributions—both graphical and technical—have improved users' experience in visiting the forum. Much of my design work is outdated at this point so it's probably time to put pen to paper and draw up something new.
Having been with the forum from pre-launch to today, it's reassuring to see close to half a million user IDs registered. While numbers aren't everything, it shows that forums still provide an important, interactive and relevant experience different from other social media channels. The other channels might be more urgent and immediate in nature but forums remain the granular, technical repository for archival-quality material. I see forums as a long-term solution for technical content where blog-style content such as Facebook and Twitter are better geared for marketing purposes. None, however, are mutually exclusive and each has their place in a product owner's opportunities to interact with a brand and its user base."
-supermod erik
"This big community is great and unique! It can offer so much help and enable so much contact and feedback between users like no one else. The vast amount of knowledge from their members can help from the easiest set up question up to serious hardware modding.
I haven't done much "moderator work" but mostly helping users with tech problems and informing them about how to keep the notebooks working cool. I'm mainly active in the Spanish and English communities (with some visits to the German community as well) and it's very interesting to see that many times the questions and problems users have are the same, despite language, cultural differences and geographical location.
I like helping users, specially when I see they can really profit from my tips and/or answers. That said, one of my main grunts with the forum software is the limited capability to upload pictures, I see some room for improvement there, like allowing external links from Picasa or other photo hosting companies. Also the Avatars could be bigger.
- moderator Tasurinchi
"The challenge of answering the questions to help other users, since February 2009 - that was my intention to join this community. I was then made a guru, then moderator, and helped out with the Knowledge Base creation in both the English and later, German communities.
I found that this structure, a peer-to-peer support community is an advantage as everyone is participating. What’s more, I am happy being a member of this quickly expanding world-wide community! So keep going on!We willl together do a big THINK ...now and in the future!"
- moderator KalvinKlein
"Congratulations to the Community, which is made up of a very professional team. I didnt read the forum before 2010 as havn't seen the needs for that - I used another branded PCs and laptops, including "self made". At the end of the 2010th....beginning of 2011 I looked for a new laptop for my personal usage and daily mobile work. As I had several mandatory requirements for laptop I've came to the Lenovo forum for solution, examples - my friends on our Russian forum, of course, mentioned about Lenovo forum. I've registered here one week later the laptop was bought. The reason was an error 1802 (yes, whitelist) I've faced with after BIOS upgrade. To be honest, my first post here seems a bit exacting but Bill (billbolton) and Aryeh (goretsky) were very friendly. That won me over.
I think nothing has been changed for me since I've became a guru. I can't say "responsibility has risen" or "I have access to a secret knowledge now". Probably my relation to any work I'm doing is clear in my forum profile signature.
I'm closer to the Community team now, gurus, mods, Lenovo staff. I see their attitude and trust. It's invaluable. "
- moderator, x220forme
Thanks again, one and all for your conversations and help these seven years. Here's to more!
- Serene Siew, Lenovo Community Advocate Program Manager

Seven years is a milestone! I'm looking forward to a 10th Anniversary and hope by then we are in more languages, and continue to build our global family and collaboration.
When I called upon Jane, I had a vague notion of what we wanted to do and in hindsight, only understood community in a very superficial way. If we did one thing right, it was to enlist the help of those who were already running successful communities related to Lenovo products. I am very glad that so many have decided to join us on this ongoing journey.
I am especially greatful to all the members of the community who have contributed so much time and effort to the benefit of others - it is there continued dedication and energy that makes this place great.
Mark

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Disk Utility: for bad blocks on hard disks, are seven overwrites any more effective than a single pass of zeros?

In this topic I'm not interested in security or data remanence (for such things we can turn to e.g. Wilders Security Forums).
I'm interested solely in best practice approaches to dealing with bad blocks on hard disks.
I read potentially conflicting information. Examples:
… 7-way write (not just zero all, it does NOT do a reliable safe job mapping out bad blocks) …
— https://discussions.apple.com/message/8191915#8191915 (2008-09-29)
… In theory zero all might find weak or bad blocks but there are better tools …
— https://discussions.apple.com/message/11199777#11199777 (2010-03-09)
… substitution will happen on the first re-write with Zeroes. More passes just takes longer.
— https://discussions.apple.com/message/12414270#12414270 (2010-10-12)
For bad block purposes alone I can't imagine seven overwrites being any more effective than a single pass of zeros.
Please, can anyone elaborate?
Anecdotally, I did find that a Disk Utility single pass of zeros seemed to make good (good enough for a particular purpose) a disk that was previously unreliable (a disk drive that had been dropped).

@MrHoffman
As well pointed your answers are, you are not answering the original question, and regarding consumer device hard drives your answers are missleading.
Consumer device hard drives ONLY remap a bad sector on write. That means regardless how many spare capacity the drive has, it will NEVER remap the sector. That means you ALWAYS have a bad file containing a bad sector.
In other words YOU would throw away an otherwise fully functional drive. That might be reasonable in a big enterprise where it is cheaper to replace the drive and let the RAID system take care of it.
However on an iMac or MacBook (Pro) an ordinary user can not replace the drive himself, so on top of the drive costs he has to pay the repair bill (for a drive that likely STILL is in perfect shape, except for the one 'not yet' remaped bad block)
You simply miss the point that the drive can have still one million good reserve blocks, but will never remap the affected block in a particular email or particular song or particular calendar. So as soon as the file affected is READ the machine hangs, all other processes more or less hang at the same moment they try to perform I/O because the process trying to read the bad block is blocking in the kernal. This happens regardless how many free reserve blocks you have, as the bad block never gets reallocated, unless it is written to it. And your email program wont rewrite an email that is 4 years old for you ... because it is not programmed to realize a certain file needs to be rewritten to get rid of a bad block.
@Graham Perrin
You are similar stubborn in not realizing that your original question is awnsered.
A bad block gets remapped on write.
So obviously it happens at the first write.
How do you come to the strange idea that writing several times makes a difference? How do you come to the strange idea that the bytes you write make a difference? Suppose block 1234 is bad. And the blocks 100,000,000 to 100,000,999 are reserve blocks. When you write '********' to block 1234 the hard drive (firmware) will remap it to e.g. 100,000,101. All subsequent writes will go to the same NEW block. So why do you ask if doing it several times will 'improve' this? After all the awnsers here you should have realized: your question makes no sense as soon as you have understood how remapping works (is supposed to work). And no: it does not matter if you write a sequence od zeros, of '0's or of '1's or of 1s or of your social security number or just 'help me I'm hold prisoner in a software forum'.
I would try to find a software that finds which file is affected, then try to read the bad block until you in fact have read it (that works surprisngly often but may take any time from a few mins to hours) ... in other words you need a software that tries to read the file and copies it completely, so even the bad block is read (hopefully) successful. Then write the whole data to a new file and delete the old one (deleting will free the bad block and ar some later time something will be written there and cause a remap).
Writing zeros into the bad block basically only helps if you don't care that the affected file is corrupted afterwards. E.g. in case of a movie the player might crash after trying to display the affected area. E.g. if you know the affected file is a text file, it would make more sense to write a bunch of '-' signs, as they are readable while zero bytes are not (a text file is not supposed to contain zero bytes)
Hope that helped ;)

Why is there a number in parenthesis ie: (7) before the Words with Friends in the Tab Bar? Does it mean there are seven copies of it opened and is that the reason it is so slow?

When I open Firefox and go to "Words with Friends" in the Tab Bar a number in parenthesis is always there.....any number from 3 to 8, ie: (8). I have shut down the computer and restarted it thinking it will go away and sometimes the number will be different....but some number always remains.

Such an addition is likely to be added by one of the extensions.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode

What are the seven steps of Creation of Customs declaration

Hi Friends,
What are the seven steps of Creation of Customs declaration.
Thanks in advance
Suma

Hi Suma,
Where have you heard or read that there are seven steps? That is a closely-guarded secret, known only to GTS gurus .
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What are the 3-bit field choices for Hw_Arm_Sel in PCI-6601

Hi,
I am programming our own driver to operate the PCI-6601. For our application we need hardware arm option. I know it is possible to use 2 counters for that, but NI-TIO should support also hw_arm. Although it is not explained in the registry document at all, after some tedious check in the DDK examples I found that this bits are located in the Gi counting mode register. I know the position of the HW_enable as well as the position of the 3 bits for pin sellect options. What I do not know is What are the 3-bit field choices for Hw_Arm_Sel . I contacted NI support but got no support. How can NI sell boards and when a customer who is not using LAbview or Measurement Studio or DDK, but is implementing his own driver is then so arrogantly turned down from NI? Also, how can NI publish just part of the registers the board support, and when a customer contacs and asks for some registers get not at all support? I can not foretell the missing registers, and it is pretty unprofessional to document just partly the registers of 660x devices. And on request you got nothing.
I hope someone from the community know about this Hw_Arm_Sel 3 pin options. Otherwise, there is just an option of error and trial. Or simply throw the board in the garbage.
Dr. Kirco Arsov
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi Kirco,
I have some more information for you :-)
I haven't been able to speak to the developer who is the most familiar with TIO programming since he's out of the office, but I have come across his notes from when he was writing support for the DAQmx driver.
As I described earlier, the HW_Arm_Sel bits don't select a connector I/O pin, but an internal trigger signal. There are seven internal trigger lines, and the HW_Arm_Sel bits map directly to the internal trigger signal: 0b000 - 0b111 map to 0d0 - 0d7. In order to route an I/O pin to an internal trigger, you must also write to a few more registers.
From what I've read, there are two more register families that need to be programmed: TG_x_LevelEdgeReg and TG_x_CombinationReg, where x is the internal trigger number. In your case, you only need one pin from the I/O connector to be your arm start trigger, so TG_0_LevelEdgeReg and TB_0_CombinationReg will suffice for your application.
TB_0_LevelEdgeReg :: Offset 0x660
TG_0_LevelEdgeReg is only 8 bits wide, and maps as follows:
7..6: EdgeMode
5..0: LESel
LESel selects the I/O connector pin to use as the source for the internal trigger signal. 0d0 - 0d39 will select the I/O pin of the same number. NB: behavior for TG_x_LevelEdgeReg is more limited for triggers 1-7, and only a small subset of the I/O pins can be selected for those trigger signals. Trigger 0 can use any I/O pin. Setting these bits to 0d63 forces the trigger source low, and can be used as a way to 'unroute' it when you're finished with your program.
EdgeMode determines whether the TIO will detect an edge of the incoming signal, or just pass the signal level straight through. When detecting edges, it will latch the signal and generate a single TIMEBASE3 pulse instead. 0b00 sets level mode; 0b01 sets rising edge; 0b10 sets falling edge; 0b11 sets either edge.
TG_0_CombinationReg :: Offset 0x6A0
TG_0_CombinationReg is 32 bits wide, and has three fields of interest:
19..16: CombFunction
5..4: CombTypeB
1..0: CombTypeA
CombTypeA controls which trigger subsystem to use as the source for the trigger signal. Since you're coming from an I/O pin and using the edge/level subsystem, you must set these bits to 0b01.
CombTypeB is similar to CombTypeA, and although you won't be using trigger B, set it to 0b01 to be safe.
CombFunction performs a simple logic function on A and B. Since you're only using a single I/O connector, you only need the A output, so set these bits to 0b1100.
All of the other bits should be set to 0b0.
Unfortunately, I'm unable to test these statements since my test machine is currently being used for another research project. Please let me know what happens if you decide to test.
Joe Friedchicken
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Why is incoming mail on EST and we are on CDT?

Why is incoming mail on EST and we are on CDT?

This likely is down to what timezone you are in, what timezone your mail server is in, and what timezone the sender and senders mail server are in. Each email has various head lines in it which define the time it is sent, and the time it passes through each mail server involved. (Usually but not always this maybe just two servers.)
Here are a few lines extracted from an email I received from Google.
X-Received: by 10.236.38.225 with SMTP id a61mr10779664yhb.44.1414751119031;
Fri, 31 Oct 2014 03:25:19 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:25:19 +0000
The bottom line is the line from my own mail server, but the other line is the line from Google's mail server. I at the time this email was processed was in the UK in GMT - it was before we switched to BST (British Summer Time), therefore the offset from GMT was zero hours, hence the +0000. Now that we have switched to BST the offset is +0100 i.e. one hour. As Google are in the USA their servers are seven hours behind GMT and hence the -0700 figure.
If you have outsourced your email to a company who has the servers located in a different country to yourself this maybe the explanation.

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I want to know the different types of tables in orcle...Please help me

There are seven types of tables in Oracle.
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2.Index organized tables
3.Index clustered tables
4.Hash clustered tables
5.Nested tables
6.Global temporary tables
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Source:http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/concepts/tables.html
But if you are asking table types in the uses senses then they are n types :
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4.Disposition tables
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HTH
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Is the Modavatable condition type of Import are loaded on material

As I know there are seven taxes Basic Customs duty, CVD, Ecess on CVD, Shecess on Cvd, Custom Ecess, Custom Shecesss and Additional custom duty.
Doubts-- Among these seven duties we get the setoff for for duties on CVD. Ecess on CVD, Shecess on CVD and additional custom duty. Are this modavatabe duties are loaded on Inventory? If yes then how? if not loaded on material where is the setting for the condition type so that it should not be loaded on inventory.
Please help me on this point. Hope i will get the solution .

Hi Rajan,
As per indian taxation system, you can take credit the duty paid to CVD, Ecess on CVD and SH Ecess and Add. Cutom Duty. Means these are not loaded to material but will get entry in to Cenvat Registers as credit and off-setting to Cenvat Clearing a/c.
Basic Customs duty, Total Custom Ecess are not allowed to take credit so, they need to loaded on to material.
To make the system understand this, we give default condition types in Custom defaults in IMG ( As sairam said in his reply). By this setting system decides which all the condition types are loaded / not loaded to material. But loading of CVD and other credit dutyies material does not sounds logical, so please check your scenorio
Modvat Clearing account you will give it in Comapny code settings for excise.
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My officejet 6500 prints photos much smaller than they actually are in photoshop. What is the cause?

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Cannot create recovery disk after update to Win 8.1 on G580

Friends
I have a Lenovo G580 that came with Win 8.0 preinstalled. I upgraded it to Win 8.1 over the Internet.
When I try to run the "Create recovery disk" I get the error that states that "We cannot create a recovery drive for this PC. Some required files are missing..."
I found out that the winre.wim file that is supposed to be in the C:\Windows\System32\Recovery folder is not there. I cannot locate it anywhere on the C or D drives either. I believe there is a copy on one or more of the recovery partitions but I do not know how to get that file from those partitons.
I am confused as to why there are seven partitions on that one drive:
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2 EFI system partition 260 MB
3 OEM partition 1000 MB
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Can someone help me and give me some instructions on how I can fix the system to find the winre.wim file?
Thanks for any good input.
Calle

Hi Calle,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that the error message is displayed in your G580 Laptop, as the OS (Operating System) installed is Windows 8.1 or Windows 8. Recovery discs cannot be created only a “Recovery Media” can be created using USB Flash drive, below is the link to create USB recovery drive.
Create a USB Recovery Drive
Do post us back if the issue persists.
Best Regards
Shiva Kumar
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AP Line Item issue

Hi Gurus,
I have an AP report which I need to generate using some fields from the purchasing area which are not available in the AP line item cube.The fields am missing which are going to be needed are :
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Item - Which is coming from EKBE - source field is EBELP
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Hi,
you need to create an append structure in the structure of the extractor from RSA6.
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The SAP Enhancements (SMOD) and Project Management of SAP Enhancements (CMOD) transactions are available for the enhancement and preassignment of fields for connections.
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Dear Experts,
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regards
KRISHNAN

Dear,
Dear,
Budget: Amount of resources allocated under a particular head in a financial year.
Budget Control: Having/ creating a control on the resources allocated in a financial year.
Original Budget: The initial budget that you have allocated to a WBS element.
Supplement of Budget: One time/ discrete increment in the original budget.
Return of Budget: Taking out the unutilized portion of the budget.
Transfer of Budget: Transferring the budget among two or more expense heads.
Project Definition: A framework for a business undertaking with a fixed goal to achieve with given resources.
The project definition contains dates and organizational information that are binding for the entire project.
WBS Element: Individual structural element in a work breakdown structure (WBS) representing the hierarchical organization of an R/3 project. Describes either a concrete task or a partial one that can be further subdivided.
Proposed Business Process
Assume there are seven expense heads in maintenance department. There may be addition of expense head in near future.
Based on the maintenance heads, maintenance department will create a project in project system. This project will be used for statistical purpose only & will not have any financial implication.
Upon creation of a project, WBS elements will be created as per the expense heads. So for each expense head, there will be one top level WBS element. Again these WBS elements will be divided in twelve WBS elements. These twelve WBS elements represent twelve calendar months.
Budget will be allocated to each WBS element & the WBS element will be released from the project.
Maintenance department will create maintenance orders as per their work requirements. These orders will be settled to cost centre, which is maintained in the settlement rule. Also WBS element will have to be mentioned in each order so that the budget control can take place. So as to capture cost from each maintenance order, the WBS element field will be made mandatory field in maintenance order.
So when a maintenance order is released, system will do a budget check against the WBS element mentioned. If the budget check status is OK, order is released or else it will stopped from release. If the order is stopped from release, maintenance department will have to supplement the budget. Upon supplementing, the order is released again & the maintenance cost such as, labour, material costs can be booked on the order. Again the order cost is settled to cost centre & at the same time, budget is consumed from the respective WBS element.
Every year, maintenance department will copy the previous years project so as to save time & efforts to create project & WBS elements. And the maintenance department will assign the budget allocated to each WBS element in a financial year.
It is also possible to return the unutilised budget or, transfer of budget from one WBS element to another.
Create a project CJ20N
Create WBS element CJ20N
Assign Budget to WBS elementsKO22
Display assigned Budget KO23
Supplement Budget KO24
Display Supplement budget KO25
Return Budget KO26
Display Return budget KO27
Transfer of budget CJ34
Hope u wull get ur answer
Regards
Rakesh

DQM quesions on Merging

Hi, I am looking in to the functionality of DQM on 10.2 and have a few questions that I would be grateful for some clarification on
1.     I understand you can merge parties but have read you can merge accounts, is this correct? And if so where do I find the functionality?
2.     Is it possible to merge duplicate addresses? For example, we have to load a large amount of legacy data which will contain duplicate addresses. Can DQM handle this at all?
3.     Is there any circumstance where data linked to merged parties is not linked to the new master party? Basically is there a chance of losing any data through a merge?
Hope somebody can help me with this one.
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-Sol

Hello Sol,
I think I can help you here with the other two.
Q:
Is it possible to merge duplicate addresses? For example, we have to load a large amount of legacy data which will contain duplicate addresses. Can DQM handle this at all?
A:
It is. This can be accomplished through the standard merge request functionality in Data Librarian.
For doing this on import, you use de-duplication first, then registry de-duplication (you may also use address validation if you so choose). There's a fairly lengthy dissertation on this in the user guide. There are seven or eight profile options that you set to determine which de-dupe rules will be used to flag potential duplicates.
Q:
Is there any circumstance where data linked to merged parties is not linked to the new master party? Basically is there a chance of losing any data through a merge?
A:
Yes, unfortunately there is (at least in 11.5.10+). I have seen it happen several times. In one case the data had been imported in 10.7, then upgraded to 11i, then converted to TCA. I'm not sure if the interface now allows you to create garbage but in this case, it did. The implementer was not 100% up to speed with the TCA and the data ended up with many problems (which the poor customer is still struggling with to this day). There are still some bugs with the TCA where you can create problems in the UI as well be very careful when editing customer records in Customers Online once you have created an account. I still find the the safest and most reliable way to manipulate Account data is in the Receivables Customer form.
The best advice I can give is to plan your conversion to the nines:
- Architect your data structure with much care and attention.
- Make sure your import de-dupe rules are solid.
- Clean, and sanitize your data PRIOR to import as well as on import: If you have the budget, use an external data service (like D&B) to verify company names, addresses, etc. Even if the data is technically correct, it can still be content poor. It's a LOT less expensive than to spend months sorting out problems.
- Make sure your Developer is WELL VERSED in the APIs and planned data structure.
I hope that I haven't scared you here but this can end badly if you don't cover all angles.
Cheers and best of luck!
Sean

Mac Pro 1,1 hangs indefinately at startup: Help Me Diagnose?

Hello all, trying to determine what could possibly be causing this issue with my Mac Pro Quad 2.66 xeon machine running Snow Leopard.
It will turn on but does not boot up, instead hanging indefinately at the white screen with apple logo, displaying a perpetually rotating load icon.
Perhaps the pros can help me figure this out...
Here are what may be some relevant details:
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-DOES take keyboard command for boot disc switching on startup (option on startup).
Sees install disc via this method, but machine will not boot to it.
-Only very recently, machine turns on automatically when simply plugged in, without the need to press the power button
(this started last night after the machine has been off for days).
-There are no error LED lights anywhere, on the logic board nor on the RAM risers.
Here are some steps I've taken so far:
-Removed hard drives to attempt forceboot to install disc and rule out a system drive issue; no change in symptom.
-Set up various RAM configs to check for RAM problems: no RAM, one pair of each set on Riser A, swapping risers, etc; no change in symptom.
-Failure to boot to Install Disc with any button combo at startup suggested some sort of optical drive problem so
removed optical drive completely; no change in symptom.
I am baffled by this, and while it is an older machine with the 'known issue-laden' Nvdia GeForce 8800GT dual graphics card,
there are no graphic anomolies whatsoever. I have the Arctic Cooler S1 heatsink/fan system in there and so always been nice and cool.
Any ideas folks? This has brought my studio to a complete standstill
Thank you kindly for your input and happy friday to you!

By the way, Ive done the Verbose mode and there are, as you guys stated, mostly lines of information I cannot understand. However, some things that stuck out as possible negatives with words like 'failed' appeared,
perhaps these lines they will look like something to some of you...
Most notable were the final lines at the bottom of the verbose readout page,
(reads as such but on single line):
launchctl: CFURLCreateDataAndPropertiesFromResource(/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.appl e.auditd.plist) failed: -10
immediately following was another launchctl line, seemingly related to the previous:
launchctl: no plist was returned for: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.auditd.plist
then yet another launchctl line which read (all on one line):
launchctl: dubious permissions on file (skipping): /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.Switchboard.plist
then this one:
launchctl: please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
The very last line on the verbose readout page reads:
Notice: new kext com.paceapp.kext.pacesupport.snowleapord, v5.7 matches prelinked kext but can't determine if executables are the same (no UUIDs)
Another thing that stuck out was a line after the details of launching and bootup sequences (simply details powerup, verbose startup etc.) but then this line appears afterword:
Bug: Launchctl.c:3557 (23930):17: ioctl(s6, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, &ifra6) ! = -1
at the very top of the readout, there are seven lines referring to 'processors', looks like this:
AppleACPICPU: Processor Id= 1 LocalApicId= 1: Enabled
AppleACPICPU: Processor Id= 2 LocalApicId= 7: Enabled
AppleACPICPU: Processor Id= 3 LocalApicId= 6: Enabled
AppleACPICPU: Processor Id= 4 LocalApicId= 0: Disabled
AppleACPICPU: Processor Id= 5 LocalApicId= 0: Disabled
AppleACPICPU: Processor Id= 6 LocalApicId= 0: Disabled
AppleACPICPU: Processor Id= 7 LocalApicId= 0: Disabled
There is a line about mid page that reads as such:
BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
anyway, not sure what any of it means but thanks again for reading and for all the advice.
Best,
-S

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