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From: ireland@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Start-up delays
Message-ID: <2477@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 17 Dec 90 17:11:44 GMT
References: <565@telxon.UUCP> <1990Dec12.210454.4575@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1990Dec12.210454.4575@midway.uchicago.edu>, nwc1@quads.uchicago.edu (einsturzende neubaten) writes:
> Speaking of the delay with a Plus and 4 Megs, My room mate's SE is also
> having the same problem. He's got 2.5 Megs, and this is the only real
> new thing that he's gotten. Running a 20M Apple internal, system 6.0.5
> except for Multifinder 6.1b9, and it takes FOREVER for the mac to boot.
> It wasn't doing this before!@!!##% SLOW!!!
> 
> Any, any ANY ideas? Killing INITs etc. doesn't matter.
> 
> later!


Here are two things I do which minimize this problem.
1) don't turn the computer off, an obvious way to avoid having to reboot.
   I leave my mac+ on for weeks at a time, only turning it off when I'm
   going to be out of town for 2 or more days.

2) bypass the memory check at boot time which is causing the problem.
   This is done by holding down the mouse button for a second or so
   as the machine is turned on or restarted. This reduces the amount of
   time required to boot.

Keith Conover