I have a G5 OS X 10.4.3 desktop. All of the sudden it is taking 5 minutes or more to log onto a user accounts-spinning wheel. Once the spinning wheel stops its okay with all applications. Then it takes 10 minutes or more before it shuts down. Can anyone help me??
IMacG5, Mac OS X (10.4.3)
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Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages
In the Memory tab, are there a lot of Pageouts?
Slow booting and slow loading of user settings can portend a hard drive failure. I'd get everything backed up while the computer still boots.
Use Disk Utility to check the SMART status of the drive.
Thank you! Everything you listed seems to be ok - CPU%:pmTool/0.90;kernel_task0.20;Window server/0.10. 512MB free space and 206.45MB used. 13408 page ins/0 page outs. Allan Jones (another reply I received) seems to think the computer is heading toward a hard drive failure - ewww :-(( !! Thanks again!
Thank you, Allan. I do not have the option of checking the SMART status on the drive. I have First Aid, Erase, RAID, and Restore. The buttons are: Verify Disk Permissions, Repair Disk Permissions, and Verify Disk. I have a newer Mac so I won't be out of commission if this goes out. I may have to take this one in to the Apple store in Phx and have it looked at. Thanks again!
Thank you, I think I will do that as the other helpful suggestions I received did not do the trick. 😟
In Disk utility, highlight the whole drive, not the Partion below & a bit to the right, look near the bottom of the page for SMART Status, or get Smart Reporter...
Ahh, yes, there it is, thank you. S.M.A.R.T. status - verified. Now... what does that mean in relation to a disk failure?? 😕
tiger extremely slow during log-on
