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My MacBook Air takes 4-5 hours to boot.

nuribruner

nuribruner

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Feb 16, 2011
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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.
 
nuribruner said:
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.
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Did this happen suddenly one day, or gradually over time?
 
nuribruner said:
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.
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Video -> youtube or it isn't happening. Just shoot the 1st 5 minutes after you press power.
 
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.
 
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 ;)
 
hcho3 said:
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.
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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 =(

GekkePrutser said:
And what model is it, and does it have an SSD?
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No ssd. older model.
 
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nuribruner said:
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 =(
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Where is this 84 dollars coming from? Is that what apple quoted you for repairing this machine?

Are you out of warranty?
 
torbjoern said:
Did this happen suddenly one day, or gradually over time?
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It happened immediately. for no apparent reason.

hcho3 said:
Where is this 84 dollars coming from? Is that what apple quoted you for repairing this machine?

Are you out of warranty?
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I am out of warranty. it's the local apple repair they quoted $84 just to look at it for an hour.
 
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nuribruner said:
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.
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If it is one of the new MBAs then it doesn't matter what's wrong - it will be fixed under warranty.
 
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.
 
torbjoern said:
Yes.


I hope you have a backup of your system then.
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Ha, no way I'm a hard core terminal person!!!!

Intell said:
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.
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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. =(
 
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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.
 
torbjoern said:
You might want to try resetting PRAM and NVRAM

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
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MacRumorUser said:
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.
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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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nuribruner said:
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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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.
:eek::eek::eek:
 
MacRumorUser said:
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 $$$ regardless unfortunately, unless it's very new and you are still covered by a warranty of some regard.
:eek::eek::eek:
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I have the older version =( so how much $$$ 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?
 
GGJstudios said:
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.
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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!
 
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