MP 7,1 Exceeding slow boot times

[machenryr]

I don’t know. I did some serious rearranging in my studio the last couple of days. The main thing that’s relatively new is I installed parallels. Windows 10. Worried that I’m possibly introducing bugs and viruses into my system. Is that possible? But I’ve rebooted many times since i installed it last week.

The Mac is running super slow. I’m not sure what’s going on. I get spinning beach balls a lot.

 

[MarkC426]

Have you tried removing the windows 10 drive, to see if it makes a difference.

 

[machenryr]

I’ve kind of done that. I’m processing. It seems to be running. I’m going to reset pram after this to be on the safe. I rebooted without loading previous windows. Bad habit of mine. We’ll see! Thanks.

 

[DeltaMac]

Beachballs?
Does your Activity Monitor show any possible culprits that might be contributing to (over)activity in CPU or memory?

 

[machenryr]

Finder keeps not responding. Parallels won’t open. Argh. I can’t get to activity monitor.

 

[machenryr]

Can you not reset the pram in these machines? Or is it a different command? Option- command P-R?

Of course there’s no chime. I normally let it chime three times. Now it just boots. And still takes forever to boot.

 

[machenryr]

It looks like it was a glitch in a missing Ethernet cable. Investigation continues.

 

[zhpenn]

did you use custom ICC for the monitor?

 

[machenryr]

did you use custom ICC for the monitor?

Hih? Lost already. I think that means no. LOL.