My MacBook Air takes 4-5 hours to boot.

[nuribruner]

Hey guys,

My MacBook Air takes a total of 4-5 hours to load 3 hours on the white screen, an hour on both the blue screens and when it finally gets the the desktop opening an application takes 10-15 minutes. the whole time it's incredibly slow.

What the heck's wrong with it.

 

[torbjoern]

Hey guys,

My MacBook Air takes a total of 4-5 hours to load 3 hours on the white screen, an hour on both the blue screens and when it finally gets the the desktop opening an application takes 10-15 minutes. the whole time it's incredibly slow.

What the heck's wrong with it.

Did this happen suddenly one day, or gradually over time?

 

[jenzjen]

Hey guys,

My MacBook Air takes a total of 4-5 hours to load 3 hours on the white screen, an hour on both the blue screens and when it finally gets the the desktop opening an application takes 10-15 minutes. the whole time it's incredibly slow.

What the heck's wrong with it.

Video -> youtube or it isn't happening. Just shoot the 1st 5 minutes after you press power.

 

[57004]

And what model is it, and does it have an SSD?

 

[hcho3]

4 hours? Kind of extreme... dont you think?

I would never stare at a computer for 4 hours to just boot up.

Take it apple store. Your computer is not working.

 

[GGJstudios]

You might try repairing permissions.

About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature
Troubleshooting permissions issues in Mac OS X

 

[nuribruner]

Ha.

It happened immediately.

 

[MacDawg]

You are a better man than I am if you waited 5 hours to see if it would boot

Take it to Apple and have them look at it
Anything else and you are probably wasting even more time

 

[nuribruner]

4 hours? Kind of extreme... dont you think?

I would never stare at a computer for 4 hours to just boot up.

Take it apple store. Your computer is not working.

It is along time but I Just leave it on the table while i do other things. regrettably i don't have $84 to spend so i have to figure it out some other way =(

And what model is it, and does it have an SSD?

No ssd. older model.

 

[hcho3]

It is along time but I Just leave it on the table while i do other things. regrettably i don't have $84 to spend so i have to figure it out some other way =(

Where is this 84 dollars coming from? Is that what apple quoted you for repairing this machine?

Are you out of warranty?

 

[nuribruner]

Did this happen suddenly one day, or gradually over time?

It happened immediately. for no apparent reason.

Where is this 84 dollars coming from? Is that what apple quoted you for repairing this machine?

Are you out of warranty?

I am out of warranty. it's the local apple repair they quoted $84 just to look at it for an hour.

 

[torbjoern]

It happened immediately. for no apparent reason.

You might want to try resetting PRAM and NVRAM

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

 

[nuribruner]

You might try repairing permissions.

About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature
Troubleshooting permissions issues in Mac OS X

thanks i'll try them out.

You might want to try resetting PRAM and NVRAM

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

Thanks. I do screw around with terminal allot could that be an issue?

 

[gnasher729]

Hey guys,

My MacBook Air takes a total of 4-5 hours to load 3 hours on the white screen, an hour on both the blue screens and when it finally gets the the desktop opening an application takes 10-15 minutes. the whole time it's incredibly slow.

What the heck's wrong with it.

If it is one of the new MBAs then it doesn't matter what's wrong - it will be fixed under warranty.

 

[nuribruner]

You might want to try resetting PRAM and NVRAM

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

What do they mean by the grey screen? the whitish grayish screen when you first start up or a different one?

If it is one of the new MBAs then it doesn't matter what's wrong - it will be fixed under warranty.

it isnt =(

 

[torbjoern]

What do they mean by the grey screen? the whitish grayish screen when you first start up or a different one?

Yes.

Thanks. I do screw around with terminal allot could that be an issue?

I hope you have a backup of your system then.

 

[GGJstudios]

Thanks. I do screw around with terminal allot could that be an issue?

If you don't positively know what you're doing, I recommend leaving Terminal alone. It's a good way to screw up your system.

 

[nuribruner]

You might want to try resetting PRAM and NVRAM

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

Alright I tried that and it's been about 5min on the greyish whitish screen. Is that normal?

 

[Intell]

If you say it happened all of a sudden and your MBA has a HDD in it and is running slowly. I'd say the hard drive is dying.

 

[nuribruner]

Yes.


I hope you have a backup of your system then.

Ha, no way I'm a hard core terminal person!!!!

If you say it happened all of a sudden and your MBA has a HDD in it and is running slowly. I'd say the hard drive is dying.

Ahh shoot i hope your wrong how would i fix something like that?




Okay!!!!!!

It's been about 30min after receting the RAM so i don't think it worked. I tried the disk utility and it said it was unable to verify. =(

 

[MRU]

When starting up your mac, hold down option/alt so that it forces the machine to look for a boot-up drive and then shows up the Macintosh HD.

If it's still taking forever then yes, your HDD is probably shot.

If it shows up, and then you can boot - once booted go into system preference, click on startup disk, and select Macintosh HD, and then click the lock.

Then go into utilities / disk utility and repair disk permissions.

Then reboot and see if things have improved.

 

[nuribruner]

You might want to try resetting PRAM and NVRAM

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

When starting up your mac, hold down option/alt so that it forces the machine to look for a boot-up drive and then shows up the Macintosh HD.

If it's still taking forever then yes, your HDD is probably shot.

If it shows up, and then you can boot - once booted go into system preference, click on startup disk, and select Macintosh HD, and then click the lock.

Then go into utilities / disk utility and repair disk permissions.

Then reboot and see if things have improved.

Thank you very much. So if the HDD is shot then what do i do? This was a very expensive computer =(

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Well.......... It is still taking along time. Crap.
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[MRU]

Thank you very much. So if the HDD is shot then what do i do? This was a very expensive computer =(

<EDIT>
Well.......... It is still taking along time. Crap.
</EDIT>

Do you know what revision of Macbook Air you have ?

Your choices are to take it to an Apple Store and have them repair it / replace the drive.

Or if you're feeling daring you could source a 1.8" PATA drive off ebay for your MacBook Air and attempt to replace the drive yourself.

Either way........ it is going to cost you some $$$ regardless unfortunately, unless it's very new and you are still covered by a warranty of some regard.

 

[nuribruner]

Do you know what revision of Macbook Air you have ?

Your choices are to take it to an Apple Store and have them repair it / replace the drive.

Or if you're feeling daring you could source a 1.8" PATA drive off ebay for your MacBook Air and attempt to replace the drive yourself.

Either way........ it is going to cost you some $$$ regardless unfortunately, unless it's very new and you are still covered by a warranty of some regard.

I have the older version =( so how much $$$ are we talking? If anything i would do it myself.


I also have the smaller hard drive will the 1.8 still work?

And while i'm at it is it passable to update the memory?

 

[tmoerel]

If you don't positively know what you're doing, I recommend leaving Terminal alone. It's a good way to screw up your system.

Terminal is what makes OS X great. It is a full unix system and to get the maximum out of it, terminal is the way to go.
You probably a Unix ignorant with terminal fear... so be it..... but please don't speak about what you do not know nor understand!