slow boot

The kernel panics and much slower boot time started last week. At that time I had Catalina as my OS. I have read many discussions and have followed many of the suggestions including resetting NVRAM, safe boots, doing hardware check and reinstalling the OS using recovery, turning off Power Nap...

I have a configuration with OC and everything was working flawless until I've updated to Monterey Beta. The Beta runs quite well on my Machine, except booting time. It takes about 130 seconds from entering the password until I can see the apple desktop. I'm using a Samsung 970 evo m.2 Nvme...

How is the boot? Still slow?

Hello! I would appreciate any help with getting my iMac to boot faster and thank you in advance for any advice. I upgraded my iMac to High Sierra and since then there is a loading bar under the logo that takes 10-15 minutes. Then after I login the desktop takes another 5-10 minutes to fully...

I've used Macs since they came out. I used to routinely zap PRAM about once a year as part of regular maintenance or when boot problems arose. Over the years, maybe 5-10 years ago, zapping the PRAM didn't seem to help so much, so I drifted away from using it and didn't miss it. I love Mac...

Hi folks, I just discovered that my half-year-old 10.5" iPad Pro takes quite a bit longer to boot than my old iPad Air 2. Both devices were clean installed via iTunes two days ago, no backup restored, should be like new. One thing I noticed is that on the iPad Pro, the power button has to be...

Hello, I just bought used Mac mini 2012 from the ebay. Everything works fine, it has great specs (i7, 16GB RAM, 240GB+1TB Fusion Drive...), but........when I started it for the first time, I immediately installed update on High Sierra, so I don't know how boot was going on Sierra actually. But...

Hi there! This is my first post on Mac Rumors, I hope to find some help here with my problems on this Macbook Pro (Mid 2012). So my brother came to me with his Macbook Pro, it used to run smoothly with no issues until one day. Now it has very long boot times and a lot of lag with the spinning...

-- Late 2008 Aluminum full-Body Macbook (13"), with 8GB ram and over 25GB free space -- I updated to El Capitan a while ago, and everything works fine. My only concern is booting time - I like the fact that now there's a load-bar on boot, under the Apple sign, but I noticed it takes...

Hello, I have an early 13" 2011 MacBook Pro. It had OS X Lion when purchasing. Two years later I upgraded it to OSX Mavericks. I recently did a CLEAN install of El Capitan. Wiped my HD and installed El Capitan. I did it with a bootable USB flash drive. The installation went fine. All through...