Starting up takes too long

atlasatlas
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I just installed my 2GB of RAM on my 24" iMac and I love it. A huge difference, especially coming right out of sleep and loading my dashboad up. However, it seems my boot up process takes forever now. This could be due to either the RAM install or that I was messing around with Boot Camp.



As soon as I push the power button, it makes the start-up noise, but takes about a minute for the apple logo to appear, followed by another minute or so until the welcome screen comes up. Any suggestions?

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    cyko95cyko95 Posts: 391member
    Well unless you bought bad RAM or RAM that doesn't match the speed of your system I doubt the RAM is it. Especially considering it's making a difference once your in OSX. My guess would be whatever you were messing around with in Boot Camp did it. Does it do it take a long time when you boot to Windows or just OSX? Also, what did you do in Boot Camp when you were messing around?
  • Reply 2 of 6
    atlasatlas Posts: 90member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by cyko95 View Post


    Well unless you bought bad RAM or RAM that doesn't match the speed of your system I doubt the RAM is it. Especially considering it's making a difference once your in OSX. My guess would be whatever you were messing around with in Boot Camp did it. Does it do it take a long time when you boot to Windows or just OSX? Also, what did you do in Boot Camp when you were messing around?



    Well I tried to do Boot Camp for both XP and Vista (long story short) but decided to repartition my hard drive and just erase it. So I only have OSX on my system now.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    cyko95cyko95 Posts: 391member
    Did that resolve it for you?
  • Reply 4 of 6
    xelitexxelitex Posts: 46member
    wow i made a thread about this too. i've still having the same issues you are. after re-partitioning my hard drive to full OSX, the startup sound goes, but the apple logo takes forever to appear and for the computer to fully start up. plus it's a brand new macbook.
  • Reply 5 of 6
    sandausandau Posts: 1,230member
    grab onyx and run all the scripts. might fix something.



    http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582
  • Reply 6 of 6
    xelitexxelitex Posts: 46member
    YES! problem solved. i used the disk utility, repaired my volumes, and when i restarted the apple icon was up immediately and my restart time shaved off about 30 seconds! thanks so much!
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