You do have something wrong on your hard drive- shouldn't be > 10 sec til
happy mac. Have you rebuilt the desktop, run Diskwarrior, Norton, and/or
TechTool Pro, defragmented the hard drive? I would do those in that order if
you havent.
NickUtah
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:47:21 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "V. Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Delayed startup to Happy Mac
> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> List,
>
> Thanks for all the insight I've received from
> subscribing. I�ve been stumped with the following
> problem that started about 5 months ago and appears to
> be getting worse. I have a G3 beige tower; 300Mhz,
> 640 RAM, OS 8.6, original 8G HD with a QPS FireWire
> card and a Macsense USB card.
>
> The problem is that when I turn on the power, it takes
> over 30 seconds for the Happy Mac screen to appear.
> It also takes the same amount of time when I do a
> restart. I have all the Apple Share control panels
> turned off, read various books and checked out every
> possible item I could find on the web. While I�m
> waiting for the Happy Mac, I hear a faint �tic� about
> every 5 to 10 seconds. I�m beginning to think my HD
> might be getting ready to bite the dust...
>
> Any suggestions would be most helpful. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Van Matthews
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