Hi,
Is this happens since your upgrade to 256megs of ram?
and check in the startup disk control panel and double your hard drive and
close it.
Your iMac could be searching for a Netbooting server.
Carl
invicta wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Seem to move from trouble to trouble. A staircase but upwards as I'm
> learning a lot thanks to your support.
>
> 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?
>
> TIA for any solution.
>
> Greetings, Andr�.
>
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