sbbod, optical drive not working and long blue screen

[Mamiya]

Here's something interesting. I am working in Nikon Capture NX. I went to the help menu and entered "crop". There was a trick that I was trying to find. As I read down the initial "help" items I saw that it said "about iphoto". What in the bleep was that doing in NX? There should never be another program within a different programs help menu, right?

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[Mamiya]

I unplugged this as I suspected it. I think? things are better now. Not sure but I really need to B/U a ton of photos before I so anything more. It is difficult to just say "unplug, shut down and kiss off". i know I will need to do that and will after I get this done. I find that my Fire Fox is corrupte. Gotta replace that. Antony and Paul, take care.

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[Antony]

As to SMC. I guess the first thing I should plug in is the monitor after the power cord?You might have to walk me through this a bit more. the monitor question is confusing me slightly.

To reset SMC properly, you will need to un-plug all the cables. Then you plug back all the required cables that means power cable, mouse, keyboard and monitor. You can leave the scanner, printer cables later.

If Firefox is the issue, simply re-install Firefox over the current one should fix the problem. (If might also want to create a new Firefox profile for it.)

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[Antony]

Here's something interesting. I am working in Nikon Capture NX. I went to the help menu and entered "crop". There was a trick that I was trying to find. As I read down the initial "help" items I saw that it said "about iphoto". What in the bleep was that doing in NX? There should never be another program within a different programs help menu, right?

When you were using Help, were you in Nikon Capture NX?

When you go search Help from Help menu, make sure the active application is Nikon Capture NX, not Finder or something else. I.e. Making sure that the top left corner (next to Apple logo) says "Nikon Capture NX" or something similar, but not "Finder". Something like below:


(I don't have Nikon Capture NX, I use Firefox instead.)
Don't use the blue search box just under Help menu, that one is for searching the where the particular object/function is in the menu.


Personally, I did not install any special software that came with my Sony α350. I just use the built-in Image Capture to download the files to computer, I then work from there.

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[Mamiya]

I haven't gotten back here in a few days as I am working up a photography forum.

I took a look at system.log and found a plethora of errors all the same:
c-76-103-199-194 kernal[0]:disk Os2: I/O error. Does this help. They seem to relate to every time I get the beach ball spinning. I don't KNOW this but feel it may be a fair assumption.
Thanks

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[PaulD]

Some Google researching brought up a similar problem. The Mac-people here can advise best recourse.

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[Antony]

Thank you Paul,

That linked discussion suggests using DiskWarrior to repair the HDD. I just want to add my two cents about DiskWarrior.

DiskWarrior is a great tool to maintain the harddisk as well as able to perform some fixes not provided by Mac OS X itself. However, it is not cheap. To most people, it is not necessary (but good to have it.)

When my PowerBook G4's hard disk failed (S.M.A.R.T. failing), I used DiskWarrior to recover it (hence I can copy all the files out). However, the hardware issue (S.M.A.R.T. failing) was not fixed by DiskWarrior. I then sent the PowerBook G4 back to Apple for harddisk replacement under warranty. (see [sdt=9259]this thread[/sdt])

Is the Mac Pro still under original Apple warranty or AppleCare Protection Plan? You might want to give Apple a call.

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