Mac pro 1.1 slow boot up

[sunnyj]

Hi,
I have a Mac pro 1.1 amd it takes almost 1 minute to boot up. I installed a new hard drive and put a clean version of snow leopard on it and it still takes almost a minute to boot. Any ideas ?

 

[Joshuarocks]

Hi,
I have a Mac pro 1.1 amd it takes almost 1 minute to boot up. I installed a new hard drive and put a clean version of snow leopard on it and it still takes almost a minute to boot. Any ideas ?

Did you try repairing permissions? Also, did you try a PRAM reset? Usually when putting new hardware in the mac pro its good to also do a SMU reset, however this being only a hard drive upgrade, zapping PRAM should do it and or repairing permissions - Please note: when you initially install mac os x whether its Leopard or Snow Leopard, the 1st time you boot up from a full installation its gonna take a bit longer, but after the 1st boot up subsequent boot ups should take no more than 20 secs - 35 secs or less depending on what kind of hard drive you have.. and if its an SSD, then you should be instantaneously booting up in no time.

 

[sunnyj]

i checked and repaired the permissions. i also reset the PRAM. now when the mac starts up it beeps 2 times. i checked all the ram in system profiler and they are all the same speed and status of them is ok. the computer use to boot up within 35 seconds a few years ago but its been getting slower recently.

 

[Flying Teapot]

Make sure the startup disk is selected in system preferences.

 

[sunnyj]

Make sure the startup disk is selected in system preferences.

it is

 

[sunnyj]

i did a hardware test on it from the apple care cd and everything tested okay.
any other suggestions?

 

[crazzyeddie]

According to Apple, 2 beeps = incompatible RAM types.

 

[sunnyj]

I've read that too and I checked them. They are all the same type and speed.

 

[frankieboy]

now when the mac starts up it beeps 2 times

You may have a problem there. The Mac startup self-diagnostic produces a single C-major triad if all tests pass: two beeps indicates a hardware problem.😱

And startup beeps notwithstanding, a 1 minute boot time on the MBP 1,1 with 10.6 is typical. I have one, and it takes roughly that long to boot 10.6.7.

 

[SmilesLots]

Startup time can be influenced by many things. I have a 1,1 also. With 5 hard drives, the startup drive is one of the 3 TB drives (5400 rpm I think), an SSD, 13 gigs ram, and several USB and firewire devices connected. My startup time is almost 2 minutes. And everything seems to work well.