Q: Boot-up Difficulty (Mac mini)
I have an early 2009 Mac mini with a one TB hard drive and eight GB's RAM running OS X 10.11.6. Over the last three months I have had increasing difficulties booting up. At times the boot up progress bar reaches halfway across and simply freezes, necessitating forced shutdown by holding the power button in. At other times, the progress bar reaches about halfway across and then my computer powers off completely. With persistence at rebooting (up to 14 times on one occasion), the computer then ultimately boots up (at least so far!). The computer itself is running well when it does manage to boot up. For now, until I figure this out, I'm going to stop shutting it down at the end of the day and will simply be putting it to sleep.
Have others had this problem and does anyone have any thoughts or ideas? Thank you.
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Posted on Aug 27, 2016 10:48 AM