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Its either the battery cable/sleep sensor, magsafe board, or the logic board. I would try a new magsafe board before anything else since its barely getting enough power to come out of sleep. You'll need the parts and someone who knows Apple laptop repair procedures.

Probably more than just an OS reload is needed.

The first thing to do is to check external video. Other than that, updating it to 10.4.11 from 10.4.7 would be a good first step just to be sure. And yeah, they are more difficult to take apart than the previous G5 iMacs before those that were user serviceable. I've seen enough of these come to...

Yes, when the computer is sitting on a desk or table, feel under the bottom left side. Is that where it seems to be hottest? If it is just a HD, luckily in those they are fairly cheap and easy to change (if it's a unibody MBP). But you will need an install disk.

Most likely a bad HD. Hope you backed up.

If it is an aluminum/glass model iMac, I'd suspect it is the optical ribbon cable. I've had to replace a good amount of those over the years.

It seems like you have a bum optical drive on top of all the other problems. If you could boot to the installer you could go to disk utility to repartition the drive and get rid of the boot camp volume. After that you should be able to load 10.6. Try booting from the C key to get the machine to...

Starting multiple threads on this issue isn't going to get you any more help than you were getting before. If anything its going to annoy anybody who could have been able to help.

If this is going to be a system wide thing, try going to system preferences/language & text/then click the formats tab and set the region drop down menu to uk. Further down you can ajust time and calenders outputs also. This is for 10.6 so if it an earlier OS its probably under system...

I suppose all that's left is to possibly restore the machine to back when it was running 10.5 through a previous backup. This can be done by wiping the HD and doing a "restore from backup" when booted to the installer. Otherwise to install a system first and then try to Time Machine over your...

I guess nobody tried google? This looks like a common issue with this printer and the newest driver that comes bundled with Snow Leopard. Here is a workaround.

What happens when you have the DVD in the external and start-up computer holding the option key?

I'd suspect its attached to the user account since the menu bar populates after the user logs in. Try to login under another user or create another admin user to test with and login.

Turn the machine off. Flip it over and remove the battery door. Pull tab on battery to remove battery. Then for the bottom case there are 10 #0 Phillips head screws. Remove the screws and pay attention to which go where because 3 of the top screws are much longer than the remaining 7 screws...

Everybody has their way, and you can call it jumping to conclusions if you see it that way. But if you want to talk about time wasting, that whole list of things you listed on a previous thread is going to waste plenty of time and likely yield little results except maybe throw a "false positive"...

How am I insulting you? I called your bluff basically and questioned your integrity. This happens in politics all the time and is not considered insulting. You are the one that that threw the first insult calling me an 'elitist jerk'. Anyway, my approach is to skip the software troubleshooting...

If you are really a "MacTech" like you call yourself or a tech of any kind, you'd probably know about the NVidia graphics chip issue these models of macbook pros are notoriously known to have and many other brands of portables have. Also you'd know that this is anything but a bad plug-in that is...

Small useless steps. When an integrated GPU, processor, or logic board for that matter gets hot enough, it will cause a total shutdown. I see these symptoms almost daily with these particular machines and it is a known issue with the NVidia GPU or else an overheating issue. Extremely and highly...

Maybe you didn't catch the symptoms. The machine is shutting down while watching flash content. I can see a browser crash possibly if it were just a flash problem, but the latest version of Safari will still run even if a plug-in crashes now.

From a Time Machine backup or by using migration assistant found in the applications/utilities folder. Another very good way is by using disk utility (also found in the applications/utilities folder) and doing a restore from the previous drive to the new drive. Any of these methods will require...