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But the Finder takes the cake... it's of course hooked up to the preview app that wont select files sanely for extra agony... ...

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Very odd! In my setup you can see that I have the "Input Not Supported", which I would expect to see, but do you see the "No Output Supported" message in the area where it says "Audio Output", and don't have any of the Audio Output info showing at all? http://img.skitch.com/20080809-dwx5d8kmj8htm6h9i1981t5wnm.preview.jpg Click to enlarge...

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Before you dismantled the MacBook, did you look what the settings were in: System Preferences ~> Energy Saver ~> Sleep? Was the slider set to send the Computer and/or the Display to Sleep anywhere along the slider between 1min - 3hrs? http://img.skitch.com/20080808-tkua5dw3rjtj1kagcm5fimpys4.preview.jpg I found this regarding the sleep sensor:

If you are using Bookmarks to visit Hotmail etc, remove them and visit the page say, by using Google or similar. Then if the page loads correctly, add it as a new bookmard. Otherwise, you could try emptying the cache of those browsers - you can do this from within Firefox and Safari but I usually do this using OnyX which is a general maintenance app for Mac OS X (one of...

After seeing the preview of your recoverable file go for full version to complete your recovery. ...

Have a look at the image and tell me if you have your Smart Folder set up like that, but instead of .flv, you have entered .mkv OR .mka? http://img.skitch.com/20080804-8urus8bu7wqmcy52d77f8wnx7e.preview.jpg

Hello Feras & welcome to macosx ;) It's probably wise to pop the Leopard disc in the drive and boot from it again so you can run Disc Utilities to have a look at your internal drive. Look for when you see 'Options' or something similar in the Menu at the top of the installer screen and that's where Disc Utility should be. Select your Volume in the left column and just...

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