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Shutting Down Too Hot?
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<blockquote data-quote="antastic" data-source="post: 974268" data-attributes="member: 138691"><p>Heyello everyone.</p><p></p><p>First off, tech details.</p><p></p><p>Apple iMac 24-inch</p><p>2.8 GHz</p><p>2 GB RAM</p><p>320 GB Hard Drive (about 100gb free)</p><p>Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard</p><p>ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO video card</p><p></p><p>I'm experiencing a pretty odd problem with my Mac. It started running pretty slow, and eventually pretty slow turned to insanely slow. Like, it took me twenty minutes to open my Apps folder slow.</p><p></p><p>The first step in my troubleshooting was just to restart. When I was booting up again, I saw the dreaded "Folder with a question mark", and screamed profanities because I had no idea why my hard drive had disappeared. Now, funny thing is that I gave up for a while, left the house and came back after a few hours, and she booted up fine. Still slow, but the boot was okay.</p><p></p><p>The problem has been consistent every time I've had to shut down my computer, which I have had to do to try and solve the speed issues - I tried an Archive and Install, but I got a fail message midway through. I've also Repaired Disk Permissions, Repaired my Boot Disk, reset my PRAM, emptied my cache folders... Anything I could think of. I'm starting to just think that my computer is inadequately ventilated.</p><p></p><p>Any other thoughts? The slowness is intolerable, especially now that I'm starting up my classes again for the Spring term...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="antastic, post: 974268, member: 138691"] Heyello everyone. First off, tech details. Apple iMac 24-inch 2.8 GHz 2 GB RAM 320 GB Hard Drive (about 100gb free) Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO video card I'm experiencing a pretty odd problem with my Mac. It started running pretty slow, and eventually pretty slow turned to insanely slow. Like, it took me twenty minutes to open my Apps folder slow. The first step in my troubleshooting was just to restart. When I was booting up again, I saw the dreaded "Folder with a question mark", and screamed profanities because I had no idea why my hard drive had disappeared. Now, funny thing is that I gave up for a while, left the house and came back after a few hours, and she booted up fine. Still slow, but the boot was okay. The problem has been consistent every time I've had to shut down my computer, which I have had to do to try and solve the speed issues - I tried an Archive and Install, but I got a fail message midway through. I've also Repaired Disk Permissions, Repaired my Boot Disk, reset my PRAM, emptied my cache folders... Anything I could think of. I'm starting to just think that my computer is inadequately ventilated. Any other thoughts? The slowness is intolerable, especially now that I'm starting up my classes again for the Spring term... [/QUOTE]
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