<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Luis and others, <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Gary wrote me: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13px; ">If you have a 6 or 7 series Nvida Card in 10.50 and have experienced a long</span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Courier New'; ">boot time in 10.5. in a G4. Here is the fix. Go to the System folder and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Courier New'; ">look for the following it "AppleHWsensor.kext" from /System/Library/Extensions/</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Courier New'; ">folder and remove it"</div><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Removing the extension worked like a charm. My Cube now boots normally. I'm not sure if this will cause other problems but many thanks to Gary Heartsfield for this info.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Bill</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>On Dec 3, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Luis Meleiro wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Gary: Could you please tell us the name of the extension(s)preference(s) file(s) that seem to be the culprit for the boot delay in Leopard?</div><div> </div><div>Thank you in advance,</div><div>LM<br><br>>>>On Fri, 30 de Nov de 2007 at 1:29, in message <<a href="mailto:2CF2DF1D-D543-4CBB-BDA8-8DC01FF01D01@mac.com">2CF2DF1D-D543-4CBB-BDA8-8DC01FF01D01@mac.com</a>>, Gary Heartsfield <<a href="mailto:gheartsfield@mac.com">gheartsfield@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 7px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); "><div>Bill my card works great very fast with Leopard. Just got the slow <br>boot problem fixed.<br>remove the apple hw preference boots in a normal time not 2min 45 secs <br>like before.<br><br>I do not have a fan on my card ?<br><br>Gary H<br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>