Hey guys. After researching and trying to reset pram, repair permissions and etc I have become frustrated as all hell. I have a duo core i7 mbp with 8gb ram and my boot time is around 10-15 minutes. I don't get it. It all started a week ago when I noticed my boot up to be around 45 seconds... I thought it was no big deal but now it has slowed dramatically. I thought it could be the os 10.6.8 as I read others had the problem so I bought a time capsule, backed it up, and got ox lion from the app store. No dice. Still slow as all hell. Any pointers?
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15 minutes to boot. WTF?
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Fresh install and see how long does it take to boot! Once you see everything doing fine restore from time machine then check again. Pretty simple troubleshooting method.
Could be Memory, Hdd?
As posted above, boot in verbose and take a look at any errant processes that might be causing it....Sure as heck shouldn't take that long to boot.
As posted above, boot in verbose and take a look at any errant processes that might be causing it....Sure as heck shouldn't take that long to boot.
IMHO this is the one thing that is wrong with Mac...it tries hide all the geek stuff. There is a terminal command to always allow you to boot into verbose mode.
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What the.. Heh, lot of text came up. Sat in a few places and got to a grey apple screen now and just sitting here at the grey apple screen. Should I take a picture of the text?
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What the.. Heh, lot of text came up. Sat in a few places and got to a grey apple screen now and just sitting here at the grey apple screen. Should I take a picture of the text?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3200365?start=15&tstart=0
Try this thread..
DSMOS usuals is followed by desktop..
I think your booting just not arriving at the desktop
This thread will be useful I think..but I'l look for more
Try this thread..
DSMOS usuals is followed by desktop..
I think your booting just not arriving at the desktop
This thread will be useful I think..but I'l look for more
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Once booted up do you still have problems reading and writing files ? My first reading the title of the thread is some serious hard disk failiure.
after it boots up, everything is very slow and i get a lot of beach ball action. its very unbearable... then after a while it speeds up but there is tremendous lag between actions.
Remember the boot gets faster the more you boot..
Reset the SMC and PRAM it'll probably help too..
Reset the SMC and PRAM it'll probably help too..