5 Minutes To Boot Options

[apbarkey]

My G4 Dual 500 takes like 5 minutes to boot.

I turn it on. The starting sound plays. Black Screen. 5 Minutes later the OS9.1 screen showing up.

Sometimes when I played with the "Extensions On/Off" it boots normal. But after 2 or 3 Reboots it's back to the old state...

Anyone knows this problem?

I think my Mac has a problem remembering stuff too. I always turn on the function "go to directory last used by program" and it always switches back to "go to directory prefered by the program" after i reboot.

Maybe someone knows all this :-)

[lepetitmartien]

For the boot :

- Try to zap the PRAM

holdcommand/option/P/R on start up; you hear the startup sound continue to hold, the screen stays black

Hold until your hear it 3 times then release, it'll continue the start up.

- In control pannels, open start up

select a different disk for strat up if you have one, if not, insert your start up CD. Close the pannel. Reopen it, reselect your normal start up disk. If you used the CD, eject it. Shut down. wait 10 seconds, restart.

- Check all connections outside and inside

shut down
disconnect main power !

unplug and replug every thing outside, if you use a USB or ethernet hub shut them down too

Inside, proceed carefully (if you're not sure find someone who did it even in a pc) unplug the ram, the cards, the different patches of cords fors HD etc. one at a time. replug everything. Go calmly, never use force, if you have something is wrong, check your position of insertion.

now restart.

if it's not ok still :

shut down, open the mac, locate the reset micro switch (somewhere near the lithium battery) if you have one. Press it on start up (don't touch anything else !) a fex seconds.

you can close the mac softly.

For defrag you need either Techtools or Norton utilities (speed disk)