Blue Screen....Slow Startup!!

[nicolle19]

My Imac has been acting up. When I restart the mac it takes forever to start up. It goes to the blue and stays there for several minutes and then will finally boot up. I am running Leopard on an Intel 17 in imac. Any help would be great.
Thanks

 

[FJ218700]

the culprit is most likely a peripheral device. to troubleshoot, try unplugging any 3rd party mice or external drives and see if the problem persists

 

[filmflam]

Time Capsule the culprit???

Nicolle19, did you just install Time Capsule on your network. My mini has been doing this since I started using Time Capsule.

 

[KennethJay]

mine does that too after time capsule install

Nicolle19, did you just install Time Capsule on your network. My mini has been doing this since I started using Time Capsule.

I just got a macbook pro and installed time capsule. after this I am experiencing a blue screen at startup and it takes forever to start..Anybody knows what the problem might be? I am new to mac..

 

[pixelweb]

AirDisk might also be the issue...

Hi All,
I'm experiencing the same behavior on my brand new iMac 27 running OSX 10.6.2. I used to have a USB HDD connected directly to the iMac and used it for Time Machine Backups. I got an Airport Extreme Base Station and moved the disk and made it an AirDisk. Now my iMac seems to hang with a blue screen for minutes before displaying the Login Box. My MacBook is also using the AirDisk, but is not having problems.

 

[emptyCup]

Have you let Time Machine finish its first backup? This takes a very long time especially over wireless.

Go to System Preferences > Startup Disk and make sure that your internal drive is selected and that your machine is not hunting around looking for a startup drive.

Did your machine have this problem out of the box or did it happen afterwards? What have you installed?

I hope one of these suggestions helps.