Blinking Globe at Start-up

there is a blinking globe at the startup of my MBP. It seems that it is slowing down my startup time. What does this mean?
Thanks alot,
Max

try resetting pram (apple-option-p-r on boot until you hear a second startup chime).....
also try booting to disk and running disk utility to repair your hdd....

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Blinking globe when start up?

this usually doesnt happen but lately when i start up my mac a blinking globe appears for about 1 min. then goes away?

roam,
The OP's problem is similar but not the same as the previous topic you allude to. The OP has a Network blinking icon and not a flashing question mark on a folder.
Just wanted to clarify. Similar troubleshooting but this is a seperate issue from what was posted in the other topic.
littleshoulders [:-)

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Here's my setup: 49 XServes, one as the head node of the cluster offering the services, DHCP, AFP, NFS, etc.
Previously, it would netboot the other XServes just fine.
I tweaked my NetRestore config and went to boot some of them to reimage them, and now NetBoot is no worky. The clients can all get the information about the available netboot volume and such, but when I hit restart, they sit at the blinking globe, and no message show up in the system.log of the head node.
I've made new image sets, restarted the service, twiddled with the settings, nothing.
All the machines have both their primary and secondary ethernet addresses in the filter list (most are G4s with the stock PCI ethernet card for the secondary).
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You are not alone! See my message from yesterday (JohnW). My new Pearl 8120 does exactly the same. Seems to be a completely random happening. Often seems to happen right near the end of a long text mesage, on the other hand I have witnessed it when I was not even touching it. So far no-one has replied to my posting.
I too have done all the soft reset stuff. I have also powered down and left it alone overnight, but it still happens randomly and it takes quite a while to re-boot. Major irritation as far as I am concerned!!
Some one must have the answer...not even sure how you get an answer from the makers.
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Hello, I hope someone can help me on this. First off, sorry I do not have model information, I cannot get on my imac to confirm it. I purchased it (24" widescreen model, silver casing) in 2008. Here is the problem.
I went on a 3 day vacation to vegas, I left my computer on as usual. When I arrived home, it was frozen on one of the screen saver pictures. I had to power off the computer manually. When I restarted, I held the option key and instead of getting a couple disk icons to select between my OS X and Windows XP, I got a blank grey screen. I tried again, same thing. I tried without holding option, and got a black screen and message stating there was no bootable disk (this would be on the windows side of things). Restarted again, held option, got the grey screen and decided to wait. About 10 minutes later a flashing globe appeared. I researched this and understand that the computer is trying to boot from a non-existent network disk. I am not sure how this preference was changed. The solution is to change the preference. The problem is in all the solutions I encoutnered, the flashing globe eventually goes away, followed by a question mark and then finally start up. Mine remained as a flashing globe for 10 hours overnight, so I am at a loss on how to correct it.
Any explanations or links to explanations for my specific situation would be greatly appreciated. Also, if the explanation does not involved wiping the computer that would be great as I have many family memories on the computer I would be very happy to get back. Thank again for your time.

Couple of suggestions you can try.
1.
a) Hold down 'Command' + 'S' before Apple startup sound.
b) At the command line, type "/sbin/fsck -fy" (without quotes) to repair the disk.
2.
a) Hold down 'Shift' before Apple startup sound. This boots your machine in 'Safe Mode'.
b) Log-in and reboot.
Good luck. Let us know how it works out.

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I usually don’t restart very often.
On restart of my G5 iMac rev A,
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My regular start up comes on right after that.
I got this before and after 10.4.4 and 10.4.5
I did DU and DW before and after with no problems.
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I know the alternating means it’s looking for the HD.
I really don’t want to reinstall the system.
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With the iBook it could not only be the logic board but it could also be a failing hard drive or even a severely corrupted disk directory.
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I have an HP Pavilion DV7-1428ca that was left powered on, so it went into Safe mode (screen goes blank). Once I came back to my Laptop hitting any key would take out of of the Safe mode however this time it did not. It remained with black screen irregardless of buttons pressed.
Had booted and can hear the fan and hdd go for the 2secs then it stops to a Black Screen with the "CAPS + NUM LOCK" Continually Blinking. Tried to Hard Boot several times but the same thing re-occurs.
It does not seem to be blinking in a series a code, just a steady blink (every sec) for both the CAPS + NUM Lock for as long as I leave it on. HP Site provides a chart from 1-6 series of blink codes which does not seem to apply to me.
Being out of Warranty I am hesitant in bringing it to a local repair shop without trying any alternate trouble shooting first.
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Hi Rdh12,
I understand that you are seeing a gray globe when attempting to start your computer. Here is an article for you that describes this issue and will help you address it:
A flashing question mark or globe appears when you start your Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1440
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I wanted to use Disk Warrior today on my internal hdd so I switched my start-up disk to my external hdd and tried to restart. I only get a blinking world icon on the screen. I tried to boot from the Disk Warrior cd as well as the OS 9 cd but no luck. I've used Disk Warrior before from the ext. hdd with no problem. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.

You're right. The world icon indicates that the imac was looking for a network drive.
Well, the situation is a non-issue for the moment. I wanted to use Disk Warrior to rebuild the internal hdd as a maintenance procedure, not out of necessity. So my main hdd is basically ok.
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