Dear Dr Wei,
I Have a few external HDD, but there are certain 2 HDD that whenever i plug into my late 08 mbp, within minutes of trasnferring data, the mbp will prompt me to shut down, any idea?
but this never happens to the imac though

thanks
rx330

connected thru USB, my mbp is on battery
IINM, shud be hitachi.
yes, the grey screen with multiple language asking me to shut down

btw, my files transfer on the imac to external used to be fast, now a 4gb file would take abt 15 minutes, is there any ways to improve the speed of this?
transferred using USB

This post has been edited by rx330: Apr 14 2009, 09:25 AM

need help again, my late 08 mbp, suddenly the f10, f11, f12 button to control sounds, not working

nope, cant either
wanna open other apps or shutdown also impossible
have to hold power button to shut it

seems like it have to do with the pendrive
it hang before that, and i had to removed it even though it cant be ejected

back to normal now

wei, it just happen again, my mbp promp the grey screen with the force shut down notice

i was transferring files to a new maxtor HDD, sigh....

and i found out a few ext HDD tat can be read n formatted by my imac, actually cant be recognise by my mbp

any idea?

this is the maxtor 2.5 hdd, not the 3.5

it the NTFS

dunno should i ask this here, but i give it a shot

recently i just added hotmail to my mail app, hence it begins to start downloading my previous emails, abt 2+k of them, took a few days, which havent even completed

till yesterday, while retreiving the previous email, the mail app crash, and no matter how many times i relaunch, or reset relaunch it still crash instantly
just tested it today, the same thing as well

any advice for me? thanks

Dear Wei,
Thanks, u solve my issue, at least i still have my remaining hotmail email, cos the rest has been deleted off the server

i called applecare, they asked me to remove the com.mail.plist thingy
but this way, i cant retrieve my hotmail as well

lucky got u....

wei, need help again
currently im syncing with mobile me on both my macs, and as u know, i had just add in hotmail account to my mail app (mbp), and wen i access my imac at home, it will also add in the hotmail acc in it as well, is there anyway to prevent this?

as i only want my hotmail at my mbp mail app only

wei, thanks
i got the 1st one working, by disabling
but how do i do the 2nd one?

aishey... only available on those days mac account?

sigh...

yes, i have the same problem too
late 08 mbp

and another thing is, the videocam green light doesnt go on wen im doing webcalls from skype

Dear Grandmaster Wei,

Im in need of ur advice once more

i just bought an icydock 2 bays with firewire 800 connection
im transferring a file of 37gbs(internal hdd) into my external hdd (icy dock)
time taken is about 2 hours, is this normal? seems a tad slow don you think?

sigh... mins is so slow...

im sorry, but how do i check if my spotlight is doing indexing? now apps i was running was firefox(lots of tabs), skype and a download manager

im using a sata drive, 5400 rpm, 1.5tb, samsung

i think wei shud be able to repair for you at a price

@wei, my transfer speed through firewire is still slow even without any apps running, i just upgraded to snow leopard, the speed now is ok 187gbs in 2 hours, those days in 2 hours for 30+gb only

clicking sound? my soon to die hdd had tat sound as well

u can set dun sleep ma, just sleep on the display

Dear wei,
the new imac comes with 2+2 gb ram in it, lets say i upgrade to 8gb, shud i get all 4 identical rams, or i can mixed 2 from the imac itself and another 2 from other brand?