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Laptop Start up's, Lags issue!

djflaco

djflaco

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Apr 10, 2013
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Hello,
I'm hoping that you guys can help me figure out what's going on with my Macbook Pro. My laptop has been working perfect until two days ago when I ran a update for Safari. The update took about 25min when it auto shutdown. After the laptop was finish everything started loading slow and lagging. I been trying to clean up the laptop but everything seems ok just don't know whats causing this lag now.

Please is there anything I can do or try to get my laptop back the way it was. It takes me like 5-6min just to restart my laptop and when it's restarting comes out the login screen all choppy. Every action I try to do on my laptop theres always a lag and the loading wheel always coming out.

Took me like 3min just to refresh this page. This is crazy always lagging and thinking. Is like it works good then it starts the loading wheel every 3min after working ok. It's weird.
 

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Have you already tried booting into safe mode to see if the issue persists? Additionally, have you already done Disk Utility First Aid, and PRAM/SMC resets? I agree the SATA cable failing under a period of more intense heat would not be unusual at all, especially if yours has never been replaced.

One reliable way to know if the SATA cable is bad is to put your hard drive in an external enclosure and boot from it. If it works properly, it's probably the SATA cable.
 
Hmm... Probably not a hardware issue.
Looks like the Mojave security update 005 is giving you problems, reported a lot in these forums in the last few days.
It happens as a combination of the latest Safari 14, and the security update 005.
Leaves you with very high memory use. And, you only have 4GB installed.

The "fix" is to boot to your current Mojave installer, reinstall the system, which will remove the Security Update, and also downgrade Safari to version 12.
When the reinstall is complete, go to Software Update prefs, uncheck the Safari 14 update. Install only the Security Update. That will restart your Mac, and your memory issue should be mostly back to normal. THEN, install the Safari 14 update. Your memory usage should still remain fairly normal now.

Well, you COULD also upgrade your RAM. 4GB just isn't very much.
 
It's probably related to having the latest security update for Mojave in combination with Safari 14. See
forums.macrumors.com

Security Update 2020-005

Is anyone getting really low free RAM after applying this update? Activity Monitor says I have 12 GB of RAM used right after I launch it after logging in. There seems to be no app or process that is claiming that RAM, yet it's marked as used. Already tried sudo purge, cleaning out unused...
forums.macrumors.com forums.macrumors.com
 
DeltaMac said:
Hmm... Probably not a hardware issue.
Looks like the Mojave security update 005 is giving you problems, reported a lot in these forums in the last few days.
It happens as a combination of the latest Safari 14, and the security update 005.
Leaves you with very high memory use. And, you only have 4GB installed.

The "fix" is to boot to your current Mojave installer, reinstall the system, which will remove the Security Update, and also downgrade Safari to version 12.
When the reinstall is complete, go to Software Update prefs, uncheck the Safari 14 update. Install only the Security Update. That will restart your Mac, and your memory issue should be mostly back to normal. THEN, install the Safari 14 update. Your memory usage should still remain fairly normal now.

Well, you COULD also upgrade your RAM. 4GB just isn't very much.
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Yes this is the issue im having. After the install of the new safari and security then my macbook started acting up. If I reinstall the system is that going to delete all my files? or no? How do I get the mojave installer? WHat are the steps I most take so i can start the process now.
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ght56 said:
Have you already tried booting into safe mode to see if the issue persists? Additionally, have you already done Disk Utility First Aid, and PRAM/SMC resets? I agree the SATA cable failing under a period of more intense heat would not be unusual at all, especially if yours has never been replaced.

One reliable way to know if the SATA cable is bad is to put your hard drive in an external enclosure and boot from it. If it works properly, it's probably the SATA cable.
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I try booting it on safemode and still having the same issue. I also try the firstaid and still the same.
 
DeltaMac said:
Hmm... Probably not a hardware issue.
Looks like the Mojave security update 005 is giving you problems, reported a lot in these forums in the last few days.
It happens as a combination of the latest Safari 14, and the security update 005.
Leaves you with very high memory use. And, you only have 4GB installed.

The "fix" is to boot to your current Mojave installer, reinstall the system, which will remove the Security Update, and also downgrade Safari to version 12.
When the reinstall is complete, go to Software Update prefs, uncheck the Safari 14 update. Install only the Security Update. That will restart your Mac, and your memory issue should be mostly back to normal. THEN, install the Safari 14 update. Your memory usage should still remain fairly normal now.

Well, you COULD also upgrade your RAM. 4GB just isn't very much.
Click to expand...
Worked perfect. Everything seem to be back and working. I just finished the reinstalled right now.
 
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