Startup woes followed by slow functionality.

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I have a MacbookPro 2006, 3Gb Ram, 500 Gb internal drive. 2.33 Dual Core. The Logic board and HD were replaced about a year ago.
Never had an issue really with it.
Not until I dropped it the other night.
Wouldn't start up fully. The chime, screen lit up, no apple. Just grey screen and fans whirring.
Now, I've two backups, a cloned version on an external drive about a month old and a current Time Machine backup.
- So I boot off the SL disc, and tried Disk Utility, reported issues it could not fix.
- Booted off DiskWarrior DVD. Reported major issues and that it couldn't replace the directory.
So I harvested the latest files using DW, no harm even with the two backups.
BIte the Bullet.
- Boot off the SL disc, ran Disk Utility, erased the drive, writing zeros to disk. Ran smoothly.
- Ran the SL installer to do a clean fresh OS install. Quit half way through, said it couldn't install all the support files.
Hmm...
- Rebooted off the SL disk. Ran Restore Backup from A Time Machine from the menu, selected my most recent full backup. It took seven hours, did it, reported no issues.
- Restarted. Grey Screen, chime, Apple logo, spinning cogwheel... and that's it.
- Rebooted off SL disk, Ran Disk Utility, Repaired disk, it did a bunch of things. Repaired permissions too.
- Restarted. Grey Screen. chime, Apple logo, spinning cogweel... that was it.
- Restarted in Safe Boot mode. Ran fsck twice till it reported no modifications.
- Restarted. Same as before.
- Rebooted off DiskWarrior disk. Checked the directory, reported only minor issues, suggested replacement directory, replaced the directory.
- Restarted. No difference, stuck at the logo.
Hmm...
- Downloaded the 10.6.5 combo updater, maybe that might 'bless' the internal HD to boot.
- Booted off an external drive, ran the combo updater on the internal drive.
- Restarted.
- Got all the way to my login window. Logged in. The whole thing slow as treacle.
And there I find myself, with a Mac that is struggling, clicking anywhere results in a spinning beachball. Finder windows take an age to draw, if they actually do manage to draw. Launching programs is impossible.
Help much appreciated. I'm baffled.

You say you have a bootable clone? What happens if you boot from it?
You might want to try running SMART Utility:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/smartutility.html
You can download the demo and run it several times for free. It will give you a detailed analysis of the physical health of your hard drive. It is more critical than Disk Utility, and may pick up signs of a failing hard drive, which could be the problem.
The drop could have jarred almost anything. If the HD checks out OK, you may need to open it up and reseat some cables on the logic board.
Good luck!

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Since you need the automatic faster speed to be there, in case of necessity
it would not be suitable install a limit controller to force it to remain slow...
The eMac had even less fan control than the iMac G4, it ran faster all the time.
There may be another answer.
Good luck & happy computing!

Slow functioning ipad

My ipad is so slow these days. Several apps that always worked fine, crash, or hardly work. Whats going on

Hi ksell14,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The articles below will provide some troubleshooting steps for this issue:
Close all open apps on the iPad
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
Sign out of your iTunes & App Store account
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1311?viewlocale=en_US
Tap Settings > iTunes & App Stores.
Tap your Apple ID.
Tap Sign Out.
Restart and/or Reset the iPad
Turn your iOS device off and on (restart) and reset
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
iOS: Safari web settings
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677
Follow these steps to clear information from your device:
To clear your history from Safari, tap Settings > Safari > Clear History.
To clear all cookies from Safari, tap Settings > Safari > Clear Cookies and Data.
To clear other stored information from Safari, tap Advanced > Website Data > Remove All Website Data.
I hope this information helps ....
- Judy

MacBook Pro 2009 new hard drive install results in very slow function and freezing

I just wanted to post my resolution to a problem that I had trouble finding an answer to on these forums.
Short version:
I replaced the hard drive in my 2009 MacBook Pro because the computer froze and upon reboot the Disk Utility said it was corrupted, but with the new hard drive the computer ran very slowly and often showed the spinning rainbow wheel. I replaced the SATA cable that connects the hard drive to the motherboard and it works perfectly once again.
Long version:
Recently my MacBook Pro (2009 running Snow Leopard) froze up and I performed a hard reset by holding down the power button. When I turned the computer back on it would not boot OS so I ran disk utility from the Snow Leopard install DVD. The test said the hard drive was corrupted, and since the computer is way past warranty I decided to change the drive out myself. I bought a 500GB Seagate Momentus 5400 Drive from Amazon, opened the computer and replaced the existing hard drive with the new one. When I first booted from the OS install DVD, my computer was not recognizing that any hard drive was present. I read somewhere on these forums that sometimes the formatting on new Seagate drives can't be read by MacBooks and they need to be reformatted using another computer, but I tried simply taking the hard drive out and putting it back in a couple of times thinking maybe I had just not plugged it in correctly. After the 4th attempt the hard drive magically showed up, and I was able to reformat the drive and install OS and even Windows XP on bootcamp.
Everything seemed to be okay but applications were running slowly considering this was a fresh drive and OS install. Over time, the computer started to hang more and more. In OS I would get the spinning rainbow wheel even when doing something as simple as opening a browser window in Chrome or trying to type into a text field. When I tried to use Windows it would simply freeze after only a short time and I'd have to do a hard reset.
I went to the Genius Bar at the Apple store which was unhelpful, so I continued searching through these forums to try to figure out the problem. I noticed a lot of people had trouble with the SATA cable that came with the computer because it's quite thin and delicate, and would get damaged when changing out the hard drive. However most of these people seemed to experience a question mark when starting up the computer, whereas mine would fully boot and be functional for a time. I thought it unlikely that a damaged cable could possibly leave the computer partially functional. Finally though I gave in a dropped the $26 for a new SATA cable on Amazon. As soon as I installed it the problem was fixed, and the computer runs as fast as when I first bought it. I don't know if I damaged the cable changing the hard drive (I was extremely careful) or if my original hard drive was not actually corrupted and the cable was already damaged. I mentioned the possibility of the cable being damaged at the Apple store and the representative said that often times they fail because people carry the laptop with one hand, and because of the way this model was designed this puts a lot of pressure right on that thin cable. Regardless, if you do plan on changing out your hard drive in your MacBook keep in mind that the SATA cable is sensitive, and that if you experience problems with a fresh hard drive and OS install the SATA cable is a likely culprit.

If you think you have either a hard drive or a cable problem, to the best of my knowledge the only product that can help isolate both of them is Scannerz. You can check it out at:
http://scsc-online.com/Scannerz.html
I think that's the correct link. If it isn't and you're interested and that's wrong, just google it. I'd also check out their downloads section, especially the sort of short document on using path isolation to detect and isolate problems.
Scannerz can detect both errors and irregularities. It uses the surface scan progress as a reference. Cable problems never show up at the same location because they're typically intermittent. Surface problems always show up at the exact same place. That's the only product (at least commercially available) that can do that.
I don't know if this information is of any value to you because it sort of sounds like you've already solved the problem, but it might be of use if you have problems in the future.
In any case, I've seen several posts on several different sites where people were reporting insulation break down on some of the SATA cables. Apparently the insulation breaks down and the cable starts shorting to the case.

Startup woes with G4

I've been having problems with my 500mhz. Dual processor G4. Right now it's running OS 9.2.2. The only peripheral hooked up to it is an 80gig external fire wire/USB 2.0 hard drive for backup. It requires no driver to make it work. I've never had a problem with this drive in the 2 years I've owned it. It's connected to the G4 with a firewire cable. Lately when I startup the computer I get a blank grey screen. I restart and I get the same thing. Then I startup while zapping the PRAM and I can get it up and running. But then sometimes the computer crashes, or a simple app like Acrobat reader 5.0 won't open and the only way to make it work is to restart the computer. I've tried shutting the computer down and disconnecting the drive but I still have problems starting up. In short, very problematic startups.
This also happened with the other 40gig internal drive. The computer all of a sudden told me the drive was not recognized and had to be re-intialized. I was eventually forced to do this after attempts to repair the drive were unsuccesful.
So it seems the computer is having problems both booting up from and recognizing drives. I installed a new battery but I'm still having problems this morning. I'm getting tired of PRAM zapping. Help.
500mhz. Dual processor (revision B) dual boot Mac OS 9.2.x 768 mgs. RAM

Hi
I'm not sure from your post whether you just have problems booting and running applications off an internal drive, or whether you've also tried booting off the external drive as well and had the same problems.
If it's always an internal drive perhaps there's a problem with the ATA ribbon cable or ATA controller on the logic board. I guess you could try replacing the ribbon cable. Presumably it's seated correctly both ends and hasn't been pinched or damaged at all? It seems like a long shot, but I guess it is the PRAM reset that temporarily fixes the problem rather than the fact you've opened and closed the case, which will have caused the ribbon cable to flex and move slightly? With the case open, can you cause similar problems by applying some finger pressure to the cable? Failing that I guess you could try by-passing the onboard ATA controller by using an ATA or SATA PCI card. In general SATA cards seem cheaper than ATA ones now and you'd also be able to take advantage of faster, higher capacity drives.

Startup woes followed by slow functionality.

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