My father has one of those wide-screen Macs he got about a year and a
half ago. OS X, not Panther.

When you turn it on you get a "flashing world" icon. It flashes, and
flashes, and flashes -- for about 4 or 5 minutes!!! My old 486 running
NT4 boots up ten times faster than this 800mhz Mac.

What's causing this? Is there anything I can do to get this fixed for
my father, or are these Macs naturally this slow?

Thanks for any advice.

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Donkey Agony wrote:
> My father has one of those wide-screen Macs he got about a year and a
> half ago. OS X, not Panther.
>
> When you turn it on you get a "flashing world" icon. It flashes, and
> flashes, and flashes -- for about 4 or 5 minutes!!! My old 486 running
> NT4 boots up ten times faster than this 800mhz Mac.
>
> What's causing this? Is there anything I can do to get this fixed for
> my father, or are these Macs naturally this slow?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>

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"Donkey Agony" <root@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

> My father has one of those wide-screen Macs he got about a year and a
> half ago. OS X, not Panther.
>
> When you turn it on you get a "flashing world" icon. It flashes, and
> flashes, and flashes -- for about 4 or 5 minutes!!! My old 486 running
> NT4 boots up ten times faster than this 800mhz Mac.
>
> What's causing this? Is there anything I can do to get this fixed for
> my father, or are these Macs naturally this slow?

It sounds like the Mac is trying to start up from a NetBoot server. Tell
father to go to the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences and make
sure that a folder on a local drive is selected, not "Network Startup".

Neill Massello wrote:

>> My father has one of those wide-screen Macs he got about a year and a
>> half ago. OS X, not Panther.
>>
>> When you turn it on you get a "flashing world" icon. It flashes, and
>> flashes, and flashes -- for about 4 or 5 minutes!!! My old 486
>> running NT4 boots up ten times faster than this 800mhz Mac.
>>
>> What's causing this? Is there anything I can do to get this fixed
>> for my father, or are these Macs naturally this slow?

> It sounds like the Mac is trying to start up from a NetBoot server.
> Tell father to go to the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences and
> make sure that a folder on a local drive is selected, not "Network
> Startup".

Bingo! Thank you SO much. That was it. Now we get the gray Apple icon
instead of the flashing world icon, and the whole system now boots in
less than a minute.

Thank you, Neill. It's answers like this that make one really
appreciate Usenet -- and the occasional no-nonsense answers from
knowledgeable participants.


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