Stopped using my iBook for 3 months...now takes forever to boot!

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dallenbdallenb
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in macOS edited January 2014
When I last shutdown my iBook, I turned off the Airport, to make sure it wouldnt be looking for a network connection. When I turned it back in, it took literally 15 minutes to boot. It sat at the first screen, and the harddrive would run, shut off, run, shut off.



I turned on the Airport again, it ran the auto-update, I got 10,2,3 and rebooted. It took another 15 min to boot up. It sits for 10 min on the first screen, then I see my desktop for another 5 min, but its completely blank.



Any thoughts?



Oh...is a 2002 14" iBook g3 700 w/256 ram.

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    You make it sound like your hard drive might have gone awry. What I would do: pop in the osx installer that you got with the ibook, let it boot and run the Disk Utility (which should be in the menu 'Installer', in the MENU BAR - go figure).



    If it doesn't come up with any errors, who knows. It might be a physical thing though. Did you store it in a moist cellar or something? And even then, one would think these drives are wrapped in everything-proof cellophane. So who knows. It may just be your ibooks way of telling you you didn't do right by it.



    A post like this, of course, makes your sig rather unattractive.
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  • Reply 2 of 4
    dallenbdallenb Posts: 142member
    [quote]Originally posted by der Kopf:

    <strong>You make it sound like your hard drive might have gone awry. What I would do: pop in the osx installer that you got with the ibook, let it boot and run the Disk Utility (which should be in the menu 'Installer', in the MENU BAR - go figure).



    If it doesn't come up with any errors, who knows. It might be a physical thing though. Did you store it in a moist cellar or something? And even then, one would think these drives are wrapped in everything-proof cellophane. So who knows. It may just be your ibooks way of telling you you didn't do right by it.



    A post like this, of course, makes your sig rather unattractive. </strong><hr></blockquote>





    I had been trying to sell my iBook, but am not sure I want to now. I havent been here in awhile either. The iBook was stored in a leather laptop bag, and then in my closet which is not moist. The harddrive works, as I am logged in and typing this message to you. I am afraid to shut it down though, as it takes forever for it to boot up. Will find that disk and try what you said, thanks
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  • Reply 3 of 4
    squashsquash Posts: 332member
    I'd make sure you have a startup disk chosen ..sounds to me like it's looking for a system folder to start up from. In 9 you used to get the flashing ? on a folder, in OS X it may just do what you're saying.



    I'm guessing of course but it's easy to check and make sure. It may for some reason be set to network startup and is just looking for a OS folder to start off of, which can take some time.
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  • Reply 4 of 4
    spiffsterspiffster Posts: 327member
    I guess we found another reason they should've kept the happy mac. It was a lot easier to diagnose startup problems!



    I used to have that problem in OS 9. I had a sever alias in the wrong place or somthing and it would search for about 15 trying to find this server. Would stall on the desktop and not accept anything. I'm not sure if you can get the same problem, but its possible. Try using disk utility as mentioned before, because you might have some damage there.
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