Try checking the "Startup Disk" Control Panel, Make sure your HardDrive is
selected.
If it somehow got deselected it can introduce a long pause before it finds
where to start from.
Good Luck
Ray
> From: invicta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (iMac List)
> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:58:54 +0200
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (iMac List)
> Subject: Trouble again.
>
> My iMac 400 Mhz SE DV machine with 256 MB memory and 7 GB still
> available on the harddisk, running on OS 9.0.4 takes more than 5 minutes
> to start up. Before this it took not quite 2 minutes. Have not changed
> anything.
> Clean installed the system again, zapped the pram and rebuilt the
> desktop
> but it still takes ages. Virtual Mem. and Ram checking are off.
> When I start up the screen lights up but it takes more than 3 minutes
> till the happy Mac shows up. Thereafter all O.K and no more delays. The
> machine runs all applications perfectly.
> Screened the hard disk with TechTool Pro 3 and Norton AntiVirus, all is
> O.K. What went wrong?
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