<p>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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 21, 2011 2:47 PM, "H F" <<a href="mailto:pantry@hotmail.com">pantry@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> <br>> I have the following machine<br>> <br>> Machine Name: PowerBook G4 17"<br>
> Machine Model: PowerBook5,7<br>> CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2)<br>> Number Of CPUs: 1<br>> CPU Speed: 1.67 GHz<br>> L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB<br>> Memory: 2 GB<br>> Bus Speed: 167 MHz<br>
> Boot ROM Version: 4.9.1f1<br>> <br>> <br>> It seems to run slow and when I need to reboot it takes over 10 minutes. Are there any obvious easy things to do?<br>> <br></div>