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- Dec 14, 2009
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- Elberton, GA
- Your Mac's Specs
- (Late 2009) Mac Mini 10.9.5, 2.26 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3
About a month and a half ago I had my RAM maxed out to 2 Gigs. For 4 weeks everything was cool. About two weeks ago I came in my office and my machine wouldn't start, I pressed the button several times, held it down and nothing. I finally unplugged the power cord and reattached and tried again to start it. This time it worked and for several days had no incident, but in the last 2 weeks its happened a total of three times. Now starting yesterday, my boot/start times have increased dramatically. For 5 years it has reliably taken from around 30 to 45 seconds to boot up, but now it takes 3 to 5 minutes. I feared maybe a pending HD failure so I've purchased what I need to make a boot-able back system, 500 gig firewire external drive and a copy of "Carbon Copy Cloner". I should have done the backup years ago, I know, but this is where I am. Any ideas on my prolonged boot time?