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Trying to understand CPU load - Activity Monitor
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1577100" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>What you are describing sounds like one of the typical behaviors of a failing hard drive.</p><p></p><p>Would try booting while holding the Command and R keys</p><p>Go into Disk Utility and try a Verify/Repair (not repair permissions) on the drive.</p><p></p><p>The first time I ran into a failed drive with this particular issue - it would play nice with a clean install - as soon as I put any other data on the drive - whammo - 3-5 minute boot time and clicking on just about anything would cause a freeze for 2-10+ minutes at a time - and that was on a Windows build with a brand new drive. WD had a replacement on my doorstep Monday after a Saturday online request.</p><p></p><p>If you don't have a current backup - would do so "now".</p><p>If you have Applecare, probably time to take it in and have Apple take a look.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1577100, member: 24160"] What you are describing sounds like one of the typical behaviors of a failing hard drive. Would try booting while holding the Command and R keys Go into Disk Utility and try a Verify/Repair (not repair permissions) on the drive. The first time I ran into a failed drive with this particular issue - it would play nice with a clean install - as soon as I put any other data on the drive - whammo - 3-5 minute boot time and clicking on just about anything would cause a freeze for 2-10+ minutes at a time - and that was on a Windows build with a brand new drive. WD had a replacement on my doorstep Monday after a Saturday online request. If you don't have a current backup - would do so "now". If you have Applecare, probably time to take it in and have Apple take a look. [/QUOTE]
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