MB Login Delay - Post Update

[TallShaffer]

This has finally gotten on my nerves, and I don't know how this occured or if anybody else is experiencing this. Before the update, my boot would take about 15 seconds until the login screen, then about 2 seconds after password to be at the fully loaded finder. Since the update, it's the same boot time til the login screen, and then about 15-20 seconds more for the finder to load. After I press return after my password has been entered, I just get a nice shot of the aqua background for the entire delay.

I've cleared the PRAM and all that good stuff, no success. Any fixes or suggestions?

 

[daneoni]

This has finally gotten on my nerves, and I don't know how this occured or if anybody else is experiencing this. Before the update, my boot would take about 15 seconds until the login screen, then about 2 seconds after password to be at the fully loaded finder. Since the update, it's the same boot time til the login screen, and then about 15-20 seconds more for the finder to load. After I press return after my password has been entered, I just get a nice shot of the aqua background for the entire delay.

I've cleared the PRAM and all that good stuff, no success. Any fixes or suggestions?

You might wanna re-install 10.4.8 via the combo update method. seems some files have become corrupt. Either that or your HDD is on it way out. Although the former is more probable.

 

[TallShaffer]

Yay! Time to reinstall my triple boot!

 

[RadarLove]

This is a long shot--

(a) did the memory seat correctly (i.e. does all of it show up in the "About this Mac..." dialog box?

(b) I thought both sticks of memory have to be the same (size, speed, etc) in order to take advantage of double-rate memory? I replaced my RAM w/ 2 1GB modules, and I'm fairly certain it hasn't increased the boot time.

 

[TallShaffer]

My memory situation is all good, thanks for bringing it up, tough.