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In theory I could hook up a firewire drive but I don't have a bootable one and I can't find my install disks...moving two houses worth of belongings does interesting things to my sense of order<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:57:59 -0400<br>From: richspk@gmail.com<br>To: g4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com<br>Subject: Re: [G4] Slow reboot?<br><br>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.<BR>
<div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Jul 21, 2011 2:47 PM, "H F" <<a href="mailto:pantry@hotmail.com">pantry@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> <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>
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