Last night as I was turning off my iMac (2.93ghz, brand new @ two months old) I noticed that after I had clicked the shutdown button nothing happened for a while. An error message about safari then popped up and I did a force quit which didnt seem to close safari. At the time I didnt think much of this and can't remember what the error message was. My shutdown / reboot / sleep buttons would not work however, so I just pushed and held the power button until the computer turned off. I went to turn it on this morning and now I have an EXTREMELY slow boot time. (white/grey apple loading screen takes 68 seconds, blue screen before going into OS X just took 258 seconds) This is far far from normal, as booting usually took 30 seconds or so total. Something is wrong here and I don't know what to do. Once it loads up, it seems to draw the desktop and the dock quite slowly, as if the monitor is refreshing itself or something. Once everything gets loaded it works perfectly fine, but I know something is wrong, which hasn't happened yet to me with my Mac products. I looked around on the forums and saw to repair disk permissions, which I did and nothing seemed out of the ordinary (altho honestly I dont even know what that does, I am quite new to macs) Can anyone help? Peripherals are plugged in tight, I am using a WD USB HD for time machine, if that matters to anyone. I did have Safari and Mail loading upon login, but have since taken those out and the problem remains unchanged.
Thanks!
Thanks!