incorrect booting

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Lately when i start my macbook up it boots to a blue screen then stays at the blue screen, the i have to manually restart it by holding the power button in, the second time i boot it boots fine. What is wrong and are there an fixes?
 

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hi,


Lately when i start my macbook up it boots to a blue screen then stays at the blue screen, the i have to manually restart it by holding the power button in, the second time i boot it boots fine. What is wrong and are there an fixes?

Hard to say exactly what the problem is without more information. That said, there are a couple of things you can try.

Use a program like Onyx to run maintenance tasks on your system.

I've found that occasional slow boot problems can also be resolved by doing a PRAM reset. Start with your Mac turned off. Press the power button and immediately press and hold Command-Option-P-R. Wait for the system chime to sound 3 times, then release.
 
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i have just reset the pram but to no avail any other ideas?
 
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You could run Disc Utility and verify/repair both Permissions and your HD.
 

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How about running maintenance and optimization with Onyx?
 
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I've had it only once!

I fixed my problema holding down the power button (to turn off my freezed macbook).

Then, you should turn it on while holding down the shift key, for a sabe boot (you have to keep pressing it until the gray screen with apple logo and spinning wheel dissapears).

Once I'm in OSX through a safe boot, I ran all the maintenence scripts from Onyx app.

Then I restarted in a normal boot, and it all went fine from there.
 

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