very long time to boot up

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very long time to boot up

My computer is taking a really long time to boot boot up recently. I looked around, and tried many of the suggested things including repairing disk permissions, clearing the PRAM, and running the fsck command in single user mode. I dont believe any of the bootup items i have are the issue. Does any else have any other suggestions? I hearded that this might be a warning sign that the hard drive is starting to go, could this be the case? Thanks

iPhone 3G, Mac OS X (10.7.3), QuickTime Player Version 10.1 (501.

Posted on May 9, 2012 7:50 PM

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tjk

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May 9, 2012 7:54 PM in response to Peterno3

Hi P,

It could be the HD dying. Download and run SMART Utility.

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ds store

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May 9, 2012 8:03 PM in response to Peterno3

What is a really long time to you?

Time the "bong" to full desktop, minus log in time and without any log-in items or auto-start of programs like what Lion does.

Should be about 30-60 seconds, more than that is something very wrong.

Why is my computer slow?

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Peterno3 Author

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May 9, 2012 9:32 PM in response to Peterno3

Thank you both for the replys. I timed the startup, and it took almost exactly 5mins for the desktop to first appear, then another 1.5mins for the folders and menu bar to fully appear. I ran both SMART Utility, and the built in hardware checker, and the hard drive came back ok.

I finally figured out the answer though. It was a startup item, but not one of the normal ones under the Accounts section of System Preferences. I found a post online mentioning to clean out the "/Library/StartupItems" folder, and that fixed it. I'm not sure which item in there was the culprit, but now the desktop appears in only 1.5mins. Thanks for the help

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tjk

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May 10, 2012 8:01 AM in response to Peterno3

Glad you got it worked out. 😉

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