Boot up times for CC

Why does it take so DAMNED long for all of the CC products to load up? I am waiting nearly 45-90 seconds for anything to load up. ooo.. least I mention I am on a brand new build of an Alienware R4 12 core, 32 gig with a monster GeFore Titan 6 gig card ($1000 card)
All of my CS6 library would boot in less than 15 seconds.

Normal is such a subjective word. My MBP boot up time varies a bit depending upon whether it is a cold boot or a quick restart. With Leopard I've noticed that my boot times have speeded up a bit over Tiger. That said, how fast you boot has huge variables in it. How much front end loading are you doing to the OS (how may add ons are being loaded at boot, such as Palm software, et al), how easily your MBP connects to the network and/or internet. Do you have programs that launch at boot? How much RAM you have is a factor. How fast your hard drive is is a factor. A fresh MBP out of the box probably boots pretty darn fast. But we tend to smoke them pretty quick. The point is, there's no definitive answer to your question. Between my wife's MBP and mine, mine boots a tad quicker, but then I'm not the software engineer in the family. Mine boots in about a minute or less

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Not sure where to begin. This is my second or third build. I never had problems until now. They were always smooth sailing till now. I have my computer specs listed below. Just going to explain what is going on. I just received my new RMA from newegg for this board. MSI 990FXA-GD80 V2 AM3+. When I first boot it up, works perfectly fine. But once I restart the computer it will not display anything on the monitor. Just a black screen. I have to clear the CMOS each time for it to finally boot up in the bios. I've tried manually setting some of the voltages but I'm no expert in this. I'm really hoping I'm just a complete retard and I'm missing something very important. I haven't been able to work on this computer that much because I've been so busy and I'm cutting it close at this point for a 30 Day RMA through Amazon for certain parts. Than I have some from newegg cutting it close. Ill be staying up till about 3am tonight so hopefully I can get something done or in the right direction.
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Quote from: badboy2k on 21-July-13, 11:31:35
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I would love to have your babies now... I tried that earlier but I was doing 1.35v. I was going to do the 1.5V but I was afraid to. Because I wasn't sure if I could really pump that much into it. Its now coming up trying to start my previous OS now. Keeps saying start up normally than that doesn't work. But I'm pretty sure I just need to delete the partition again and start over for that. I already have a flash drive ready for this. But ill need to set up RAID now lol. I've booted it several times now without having to reset the CMOS. It also has both sticks in there now.

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eightforums .com/tutorials/15458-uefi-bootable-usb-flash-drive-create-windows.html
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Quote from: RemusM on 22-February-14, 01:41:27
If one SSD fails, you lose the data on both SSDs.
In your case, you lose 128 GB.
Period.
You continue to argue on silly things and you miss the main point:
RAID 0 on SSDs does not make any sense.
RAID 0 (striped volume) has been designed for spinners.
It's a workaround to reduce the access time (a few miliseconds) caused by the mechanical parts of the HDD.
For a SSD (with a few microseconds access time) does not bring any boost.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485-10.html
On contrary: shorter lifetime for both SSDs
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Put the OS on the first SSD (drive C) and the other programs/games on the second one (drive D).
There is no need to kill both SSDs at the same time (for nothing).
And finally, talking about this silly "fast boot" of yours:
5,10,20, or 30 seconds is something irrelevant.
Simply because you get the max speed on an "empty" OS only.
With every installed app (most of them come with bloatware anyway), your boot time is getting longer and longer.
On the other hand, who cares if it takes 10 or 20 seconds?
Only someone with mental problems needs to boot up the computer all day long.
99.99% of the users boot up the computer once or twice per day.
From my point of view, this topic is closed.
You're free to think and do anything you like.
I take it you are extremely hard headed and only view this from your opinion. Even with your logic of "If a drive fails you lose 128GB of data is wrong." If a drive fails I would lose 256GB of data if the RAID was full...
The way you originally worded it made it sound like you thought RAID 0 only uses the capacity of one drive... I was trying to clear that up by saying it uses the capacity of both drives and ends up being 256GB capacity but I guess you couldn't wrap your head around what I was trying to say.
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I am getting the error:
"The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Jounraled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows."
I read up some on google, but all of them says that they have crated a partition and that is the problem, I only have the standard "Macintosh HD".
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This message, and threads like yours got asked daily for over two years, now it is only a couple times a week!!
Is it so hard to follow through? you were to have backup already, clones are best, then erase/format and restore.
Then partition.
Some have been able to use Disk Utility booted from OS X DVD or another drive, and repair the drive.
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1. My MacBook (bought in late 2008, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 160 GB HD, running Leopard/10.5.8) boots up quite slow. It can take a while to boot up and shut down.
Question: What should I do to reduce the boot up time?
I haven't done a clean up for a while, and am a MacBook newbie (after 4 years, still) for the tools. I think I need to remove some applications but don't know exactly how. Also I am looking for stuff like System Defragment / Compression (tools available for Windows OS) to tune the hard disk performance, if possible.
2. Sort of related to this slow boot-up time - should I bother to upgrade to Snow Leopard (pay $ 29.00) and then upgrade to Lion (another $ 29 ?) for some 250 new features that I am not exactly sure if I will need it (or my 2008 MacBook can handle it well)?
My friend has a 2011 MacPro which he let me use it for a while, so I think I am already using Lion, but frankly I can't tell much difference from the user experience (am just a very average Mac user!).
Question: Should I bother the money and the time (I heard the downloading and installation time for Lion is very long) if all I care is boot-up time?
3. One last question - How long can my MacBook last? Is there a way to find out the battery life? Any indication that my MacBook might be on the edge of its life cycle anytime soon?
I heard that typically the life for a laptop (PC or Mac) is 2 years. I am not a heavy user, and I guess that's why my MacBook is still alive after 4 years. But should I expect that to be failing any time soon?
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I'll try to make it short but with your questios, might be impossible.
I own both late 2008 MB Uni with 2Ghz and a brand new late 2011 MBP 13 inch.
I have lion running on both Macbooks with no slow down or issues.
The late 2008 I upgraded to 8GB Crucial DDR3 Memory and 320GB Seagate Hard Drive. Total cost to me? $140 CDN ( i live in Canada ).
My MB Uni's battery has 1047 cycle count and I still get 3-1/2 - 4 hours of battery life depending on what applications I'm using.
As for typical life of a PC or MAC ( I own both ). The PC's life is shorter than a MB. I have a 4 year old Dell Vostro that I had to do a RAM upgrade so Windows 7 would run properly.
My late 08 MB had 4GB of RAM when I upgraded to Lion with no issues. i just decided to go 8GB because it was cheap.
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so......my beloved macbook pro of 3 years is starting to get glitchy:
iTunes will not stay closed down, even a force quite or killall process won't keep it shut. It just bounces in the dock playfully and pops back up again. Strange one.
The second issue, and this is now happening quite oftern, is when I go to click on something (just using the internal trackpad) it actually right clicks instead. This is obviously really frustrating. The only way I can get it to stop right clicking is to do a 4-finger swipe to another desktop or the widget page and back again. Then it dissapears for a little while.
Third issue - long boot time. waaaaaay off what it used to be like no so long ago. getting on for 1m30s all in all.
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Please note I have alreadt tried a reinstall of the OS WITHOUT formatting the drive.
System:
MacBook Pro Mid 2009
Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)
Thanks in advance for any help,
Tompz

Hi there,
My iMac has very similar specs, Same processor, same graphics card, and is from Late 2009. I have long boot times, however operation is relatively smooth, I think I am one of the lucky ones.
It sounds like your hard drive is beginning to reach the end of its life. Make sure you have full backups for when it does eventually fail, which still could be in a few years time.
About last year, I upgraded my RAM to 8GB, which has done great things. RAM is relatively cheap (if you buy if from somewhere like Crucial, NOT Apple who charge a huge premium) so I reccomend making a simple upgrade there to tide you over.
In regard to iTunes, I reccomend a reinstall.
Have a nice day,
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