Judging by your specs, the system should boot pretty quickly. I run Leopard on a Dual 450 Sawtooth system and booting off the internal IDE bus takes less than a minute to desktop, including a pause for login.
A couple of thoughts: 1: Does your processor upgrade require a cache enabler KEXT file? If it isn't present, the machine may not be using the higher level caches, causing it to run painfully slowly. 2: I seem to recall with Leopard that you have to remove or hack a particular KEXT file pertaining to the nVidia drivers that originally shipped with Leopard to avoid a long boot time when using a flashed 6200 card. I can't for the life of me recall which one it is, but when I had my 6200 card in my Quicksilver, I remember it took FOREVER to load the progress bar when the computer started up. Edit: See attached website for additional help: If you don't feel like reflashing, there's a comment at the bottom which tells which KEXT file to remove and where to remove it from. http://everythingapple.blogspot.com/2007/11/os-x-105-leopard-g4-nvidia-boot-delay.html On Jul 6, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Michael B. in Cincinnati wrote: > Hi: I found a deal on a copy of Leopard, and updated my G4 DA. It's > been extensively upgraded: > > - 1.5 GHz OWC processor > - 1.5 GB of RAM > - DVD-RAM > - Acard AEC6290M SATA card with a 160 GB HD > - Reflashed Geforce 6200 256MB video card > - USB PCI card > - maudio Delta 2496 sound card > - Sweet Multiport front panel > > but the boot time has gone up to 3 min. 15 secs! It's about 20 sec > just to the grey apple, another 60 sec of spinning gear, and then two > mins plus of blank blue screen before the desktop shows up. A friend > of mine here claims that this isn't normal. What boot times are folks > seeing with 10.5.8? Is there some setup that I can change? I installed > the drivers for the SATA and sound cards, but that made no difference. > Does anyone have a clue what it's doing? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
