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eMac 10.5.8 boot time

Ih8reno

Ih8reno

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Aug 10, 2012
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Hi everyone

Just upgraded my ati eMac to leopard and the boot time takes 5-10 min. It opens to the apple logo and then sits with a blue screen for a long time. The specs are 1ghz processor and 1gb ram. It is a clean install and I've reset the pram and ran disk check and permission repair. Any suggestions on what could speed this up?
 
Is it still the original hard drive? The eMac came with a slow hard drive, and yours is getting up there in age - it might be starting to fail.
 
jbarley said:
Try starting it up in 'Ver-bose' mode, hold 'Cmd+V' when starting.
This might show you where it is hanging.
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Verbose mode shows the blue screen before the login screen. This is where the OP's eMac is slow at booting.
 
Yup, original 60gb drive. Think it's just the system can't handle the os very well? Once it's booted it works as quick as tiger did
 
rjcalifornia said:
yup, change the hard drive
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Well, I have had long startups quite a few times over the last 20 years and most of the time it has turned out to be the hard drive going bad. So I may agree with this.

It would be a good idea to get a new drive in there anyway as that drive is quite old and may fail soon. It is quite a bad feeling when a drive craps out and you lose something you may have needed.
 
Thanks for all your replies. I tried reinstalling the os setup as new and when it was 10.5 it booted just fine, but after getting all the 10.5.8 updates it takes a long time again. The computer isn't worth an upgrade since I got it for $10 and it was just a new toy for me really. I think I'll just have to live with it.
 
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