[DBvader]

i have a dual 867, and when i start it up ot takes ages. the screen will be black for a good 2 min after the chime, and then the OS X loading screen will show up, it blazes through that, and i get my login screen. i remember there used to be an apple and a spinning status deal, but its not there anymore.

my specs are

Dual 867
512 DDR
80 GB HD

any ideas where the apple gray screen went, and if it should take this long?

[chris v]

My Cube with the 15" Apple LCD doesn't display the grey logo screen, either. It doesn't get power form the ADC connection until the "Welcome/progress bar screen. No idea why, but there's scattered reports of this from other people. What monitor and video card are you running?

FWIW, my Cube takes ~2 mins. to boot. At work, my Sawtooth 450 and Dual Gig QS both take about 1.5 minutes. The Sawtooth is only a sec or two slower than the Quicksilver. Go figure. Startup times seem to vary wildly from user to user, from 40 secs or so to three minutes, with no rhyme or reason.

CV

[DBvader]

ati 9000.

its weird, when i first got my computer, it had the gray screen, but after i reformatted it, it doesnt.

i never remebered it taking so long.

[kcmac]

When I open the lid of my PB, it starts instantly.

I never turn it off.

[OptimusG4]

When I have to restart, it takes a little over a minute. But since I put it to sleep, about 5 seconds.

[malbicho]

I am on a single 867 Mhz Quicksilver and it is really fast at booting. As soon as i press the power on button i get the grey apple and after 5-6 seconds i get the blue screen with the progress bar.
I think it takes about 40 seconds or less totally.
640 megs of ram
nvidia geforce 2 mx

[philzilla]

266Mhz iMac: 3 minutes. i don't recall what the iBook takes, but i should imagine it's less than that

[ngrundy]

My powerbook takes a couple of mins to boot, most of it spent at the grey screen but I only see that once every 2 or so weeks. Sleep is your personal god, use it, love it

[chris v]

Originally posted by DBvader:
ati 9000.

its weird, when i first got my computer, it had the gray screen, but after i reformatted it, it doesnt.

i never remebered it taking so long.

Maybe you're missing a specific ATI drive because of the re-format? Did you use a retail OS X disk? I wonder if the Software Restore disks would bring it back?

CV

[Jerommeke]

I'll time it tomorrow

[Telusman]

Titanium Powerbook 667 (non DVI) 768mb of ram, 30gb hard disk. System takes roughly 40 seconds to boot up. 85% of the time spent on the grey screen with the Apple logo (changed that though) and about 10 seconds spent on the progress screen.

iMac DV 400, 384mb of ram. takes about 65 seconds to boot, mostly because its running as a server and is running every service that can be run, and then some.

The Quicksilver that i work with intermittnetly takes a little over a minute, struck me odd for a 800mhz machine to boot slower than a 667. Its got a gig of ram too, so that makes it extra wierd.

[DBvader]

its so weird.

my login osx screen deal literally takes less than 5 seconds. the "gray screen" takes so long. any ideas?

[Yager]

Dual 1 gig with 1 gig RAM is very fast, have not timed it but less than 30 seconds. maybe even less than 20.

[mdc]

Originally posted by ngrundy:
Sleep is your personal god, use it, love it

amen.

i have not taken out the stopwatch but one-mississippi-two-mississippi method and my ibook takes around 1 minute from power button to me being able to use the desktop.

but yeah, i never turn this thing off. sleep mode is good. when i first read about it, i thought it would be comparable to hibernation in winxp, uhhhh no, close lid, open lid... oh look there is the desktop already

[Spliffdaddy]

you're confusing hibernation with "suspend to RAM". Suspend to RAM allows instantaneous readiness on the PC platform - akin to what you're used to on your Mac.
Hibernation stores the state of the machine on hard disk and takes several seconds to become ready...but also saves battery power since the RAM can be powered-off.

PCs offer both sleep & suspend options, usually.

[tooki]

Too long.

tooki

[Liquidity X]

DP 800, would say a little under 40 secs.

[sek929]

When simply restarting it usually takes around 1.5 - 2 minutes. Way longer than the 30 seconds or so OS9 took but then again I never restart my machine unless I've installed something.

The few times I had to force quit my machine with the reset button (boot problems due to my medling with the CoreGraphics file) it took about 6-8 minutes to boot I read this was due to a "system check" of sorts that goes on when the machine was forced to shutdown.

This really annoys me even in Windows you could hit "x" to cancel any boot checkdisk utilities.

Meh, maybe Unix knows what it is doing...

[dampeoples]

Takes my iMac 700 about 1.5 minutes or so when it gets started back up

[neilob_uk]

Takes my dual 1.25 around 5 seconds on the apple logo and then about 10 seconds to desktop. You can't even read anything it loads on the startup screen it zips through so fast!

~Neil

[nsxpower]

My 1Ghz TiBook takes about as long as my 8 year old Toshiba T2150CDT 486DX4 w/ 12Mb of RAM (Yes! I have one and it still works!) ... TOO LONG!

[ThisGuy]

1 minute 15 seconds on my iBook 800. (AppleTalk, file sharing, printer sharing, and web sharing activated)

2 minutes exactly on an iBook 500. (AppleTalk and file sharing enabled)

[Simon]

I'm not sitting at my 1GHz iMac right now so I'll have to time it later. But I'm wondering, do we really need to reboot more than maybe once every two weeks or so? I actually only re-boot my Mac when a system update requires me to do so. The other time my Mac just goes to ->

I get the impression that my Mac takes much longer with the grey Apple screen than for the blue screen showing the startup of services.

I have however been able to shorten the time with the grey screen by defragmenting my HD (Drive 10 in MacOS X or Norton SpeedDisk in OS 9). After defragmenting the disk the grey screen time was noticeably shorter. And I have also heard that people with an activated network setting but no actual network connected get a long wait during the blue boot screen. So if Ethernet is not plugged in, the Ethernet connection should be de-activated in the network system pref.

[mrchin]

Quicksilver 867MHz. A little over 40 seconds.

Just troubleshooted a QS Dual Gig. After repair and running fsck 5 times in a row, it now boot in under 20 seconds from cold boot.