[G4] Slow reboot?

[Richard Klein]

Can you try swapping out the hard drive, or boot from a FireWire drive?  It
may be getting errors from your hard drive, making it have to retry read
operations over and over again.
On Jul 21, 2011 2:47 PM, "H F" <pantry at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have the following machine
>
> Machine Name: PowerBook G4 17"
> Machine Model: PowerBook5,7
> CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
> Number Of CPUs: 1
> CPU Speed: 1.67 GHz
> L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
> Memory: 2 GB
> Bus Speed: 167 MHz
> Boot ROM Version: 4.9.1f1
>
>
> It seems to run slow and when I need to reboot it takes over 10 minutes.
Are there any obvious easy things to do?
>
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