Help upgrades made my imac slower?????

Question

i Just upgraded my Imac 17 incher g5 no isight to a new sata seagate 250 gb hard drive and also upgraded the ram to 2 gb
the question is is when waking up the system from sleep it takes a good 30 to 40 sec before i can start working??
what did i do wrong?
the sata is an off the shelf what about the spred spectrum stuff?
thanks in advance

Answer 1

"the sata is an off the shelf what about the spred spectrum stuff?"
Assuming your Seagate is a Barracuda model, that is only a potential issue if the model number is 7200.9, as the older models Barracuda 7200.8 or 7200.7 did not have that feature included. If it is a 7200.9 it probably wouldn't work at all, unless the feature was turned off by the seller (some will do that for you).
"what did i do wrong?"
By installing two upgrades at the same time, you now have no easy way to determine whether your issue is being caused by the new hard drive or by the new memory. I recommend first returning memory to its original configuration (although you might run through the following and achieve resolution of your issue leaving things just the way they are now).
If you continue to get a slow start from sleep, open Disk Utility in your Applications>Utilities folder. Select the entire hard drive, the "First Aid" panel, and click the "Repair Disk Permissions" button. Allow it to run to completion, when you should see "Permissions repair complete" in bold.
Then boot from your Tiger install disc and after the language selection screen, at the top of the second screen will be several pull-downs. Select "Disk Utility" from the Utilities pull-down. Again select the entire hard drive, the First Aid panel, and click on the "Repair Disk" button. Allow it to run to completion, when you should see "No repairs necessary" - rerun until this is the report. In the area below the "Repair" buttons you will see one line is the "S.M.A.R.T. Status:" which should be followed by "Verified" - any other notation would be a warning.
If the slow start issue persists, do a PRAM reset. Also run the extended version of the Apple Hardware Test, which is found on the original set of grey-label discs that came with the iMac. Pay attention to any specific notation, write down the code and report it to Apple or a repair center.
If after performing all four of the above it is still slow, you might want to set up a temporary "user" at System Preferences>System>Accounts and log in that way to see if the issue exists in that configuration. If not, then obviously you have a setting somewhere in your usual user configuration that needs adjusting.
Once the slow start issue is resolved with the hard drive, install the new RAM one stick at a time and if the issue re-occurs, use the same steps to resolve the issue with your new RAM. Incompatible RAM is not particularly unusual, and most sellers will replace it. Good luck.