10 mins to boot after clean install

gav240

the gf's macbook pro was taking about 10 minutes to boot so as we don't have the install disks anymore we bought the snow leopard upgrade. i formatted the hard drive and installed it. everything went fine but it is still taking 10 minutes to boot. i've tried repairing permissions and repairing the disk but apparently there's nothing wrong. so I'm guessing this is a hardware problem????? we got a new mainboard for it last year as it failed. its 2 and a half years old.

Greentree_uk

perhaps the hard drive is no dying? download aja sytem test and see that read and write speed you are getting. http://www.aja.com/ajashare/AJASystemTest.zip

it could also be a bad memory chip.

miralize

try doing an smc & pram reset

Sad Professor

Are applications slow to open as well? Are you getting many spinning beach balls?

gav240

Greentree_uk wrote: »

perhaps the hard drive is no dying? download aja sytem test and see that read and write speed you are getting. http://www.aja.com/ajashare/AJASystemTest.zip
it could also be a bad memory chip.

i tried this and these were the results for a 1GB file at the highest frame rate

I/O Transactions
Frame MB/sec
Read Write
00.0 54.7 52.9
01.0 59.5 58.9
02.0 59.3 59.3
03.0 59.5 59.4
04.0 61.6 61.9
05.0 60.6 60.6
06.0 55.3 54.7
07.0 57.3 55.7
08.0 59.3 59.4
09.0 59.5 59.3
10.0 60.5 48.6
11.0 62.0 27.4
12.0 56.5 31.3
13.0 55.7 40.5
14.0 59.5 59.4
15.0 59.3 59.3
16.0 59.6 58.3
17.0 62.0 62.0
18.0 59.0 59.0
19.0 55.3 55.1
20.0 58.2 56.6
21.0 59.3 58.2
22.0 59.5 58.3
23.0 61.1 60.6
24.0 62.1 60.9
25.0 55.3 53.7
26.0 56.5 56.7
27.0 59.5 59.5
28.0 59.3 58.2
29.0 60.0 57.1

however there was no option to select a video device

i will look for a program online now to test the memory

are these results good or bad???

miralize wrote: »

try doing an smc & pram reset

tried this but no joy

Sad Professor wrote: »

Are applications slow to open as well? Are you getting many spinning beach balls?

i dont have many applications installed but i opened up around 6 at once and there was no problems. however before i formatted it when photoshop and illustrator were used they were very sluggish and the beachball appeared every time i used a new tool

gav240

here are the memory test results there's 2GB of ram installed

Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869) running in multiuser mode
Memory Page Size: 4096
System has 2 Intel core(s) with SSE
Requested memory: 0MB (0 bytes)
Available memory: 797MB (836718592 bytes)


Memtest version 4.22 (64-bit)
Copyright (C) 2004 Charles Cazabon
Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tony Scaminaci (Macintosh port)
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 only

Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869) running in multiuser mode
Memory Page Size: 4096
System has 2 Intel core(s) with SSE
Requested memory: 798MB (837312512 bytes)
Available memory: 798MB (837312512 bytes)
Allocated memory: 798MB (837312512 bytes) at local address 0x0000000101000000
Attempting memory lock... locked successfully
Partitioning memory into 2 comparison buffers...
Buffer A: 399MB (418656256 bytes) starts at local address 0x0000000101000000
Buffer B: 399MB (418656256 bytes) starts at local address 0x0000000119f43000

Running 2 test sequences... (CTRL-C to quit)

Test sequence 1 of 2:

Running tests on full 798MB region...
Stuck Address : ok
Linear PRN : ok
Running comparison tests using 399MB buffers...
Random Value : ok
Compare XOR : ok
Compare SUB : ok
Compare MUL : ok
Compare DIV : ok
Compare OR : ok
Compare AND : ok
Sequential Increment: ok
Solid Bits : ok
Block Sequential : ok
Checkerboard : ok
Bit Spread : ok
Bit Flip : ok
Walking Ones : ok
Walking Zeroes : ok

Test sequence 2 of 2:

Running tests on full 798MB region...
Stuck Address : ok
Linear PRN : ok
Running comparison tests using 399MB buffers...
Random Value : ok
Compare XOR : ok
Compare SUB : ok
Compare MUL : ok
Compare DIV : ok
Compare OR : ok
Compare AND : ok
Sequential Increment: ok
Solid Bits : ok
Block Sequential : ok
Checkerboard : ok
Bit Spread : ok
Bit Flip : ok
Walking Ones : ok
Walking Zeroes : ok

All tests passed! Execution time: 1771 seconds.

muggyog

Start up in verbose mode and see what is causing the delay.

Greentree_uk

all sounds well. perhaps your graphics card is faulty.... did you say your machine has already had the logic board replaced due to Nvidia issue? making it an aluminium macbook pro as opposed to a unibody

gav240

i have been busy with exams lately.......
i started in verbose mode and the writing that came up disappeared after 30 seconds and a blue screen appeared for about 8 minutes

it is an aluminum case was thinking it probably is the graphice card

it has started booting up normally now
i don't know why i havn't done anything