MBP takes aaaages to wake up

sarkozy · 14-10-2011 12:45pm #1

Yo. I've a 5 year-old MBP, 2GB RAM. Recently, I've noticed it doing a funny thing. Most times I wake the thing from sleep, the thing takes at least 5 minutes to fully wake back up. All I hear is the click-clicking of the RAM loading stuff up. In the meantime, I can't do anything with the computer. It becomes sluggish as hell.

I recently repaired a problem with the HD, I cleaned a lot of gunk off the thing using the usual OS X and freeware tools, very little is running in the background, and this even happens when I have hardly any programs open.

Recent major changes that happened around when this problem began was the installing of Daylite, a customer relationship management tool for small businesses.

I've scoured the net, but I just can't find any information on this problem

What do you think?

Sad Professor · 14-10-2011 12:58pm

Is it slow to startup or open applications as well?

Try uninstalling this Daylite software if you think that might be the cause. And I wouldn't recommend using maintenance tools to "clean" your system. They usually do more harm than good and people often have to do a clean install to undo the damage. What tools did you use?

And the click-click sound you are hearing isn't the RAM, it's the hard drive.

sarkozy · 14-10-2011 1:22pm

Well, then, one thing is the amount of time it seems to take to load up the sleep file after I wake it up. I would say it's noticable slower at booting up, but this is a more longer-term observation.

sarkozy · 14-10-2011 1:46pm

erzi wrote: »

Is there a kind of virus in your computer? How about the use of RAM when your computer running?As No2 says you had better to choose a maintenance tools to "clean" your system.

I didn't use a blanket maintenance program - I used Monolingual to save space, specific things, from a guide I got on macrumors.com.

Sad Professor · 14-10-2011 1:54pm

Monolingual is a very detractive app. There was a recent thread in which someone lost the use of their keyboard after using it. Have the sleep related problems only started since you used it?

hoommer · 14-10-2011 2:14pm

had the same problem and it turned out to be the hd.
really sounds like it if its making noise + you have already repaired bad sectors. you’ll get one really cheap s/hand it most likely ide very easy to change.

sarkozy · 14-10-2011 2:41pm

I had thought about this alright. It didn't seem like anything else could really cause the slowness other than the drive getting old and dithery. On the other hand, I expect to be getting a new MBP from the states in the next month or so.

Would it make sense to run a diagnostic overnight to see if it brings up anything? Would it?

MBP takes aaaages to wake up

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