W520 extremely slow boot - cause and workaround

I have a W520 2820QM BIOS 1.26 with an Intel 510. I've recently experienced a slow boot up issue and wanted to let Lenovo staff know about this to report to engineering.
This is [B]not[/B] the well-known 40 secs delay on warm reboot with the Intel 510. This is a 5 minute delay during POST until the BIOS passes over to the OS upon which the laptop runs at normal speedup. It also happens on a cold boot. The laptop will sit for up to 5 minutes at the Thinkpad logo and another 3 Minutes after the BIOS fingerprint read.
The cause is my HTC Desire S, connected to the blue USB 3 port during bootup. The Desire is in charge-only mode and I can reproduce the slowdown issue reliably by connecting the phone and fix it by removing it. The phone doesn't cause any problem after the OS was started. When the phone is connected to the yellow USB 2 port the laptop doesn't start at all, the Thinkpad logo never appears (or it boots even slower and I wasn't patient enough to wait for the logo to appear).
I'm assuming the Desire won't be the only phone causing this.

According to your description it seems like the same issue (or at least very similar) we have with an external WD Essentials USB 3.0 harddrive. http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W520-won-t-boot-when-docked-in-mini-dock/td-p/... As far as I know there is no workaround and I'm not sure if Lenovo is working on a fix.
Lenovo ThinkPad W520 15.6" 1920x1080, UEFI 1.42, Intel Core i7-2820QM 2.3GHz, Intel HD3000 + nVidia Quadro 2000M 2GB, Kingston PNP 16GB (4x4GB) 1600MHz RAM, Crucial m4 040H 256GB SSD, Lenovo TP Drive Adapter UltraBay 12,7mm + WD Blue 1TB 5400rpm HDD, Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN, Gobi 3000, Lenovo TP Port Mini Dock Plus Series 3, Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit

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### Complete Problem Description ###
A test file is being used to do inserts into a schemaless XML DB. The file is inserted and then links are made to 4
different collection folders under /public. The inserts are pretty slow (about
15 per second and the file is small)but the xquery doesn't even complete when
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is going on except that I suspect somehow a cartesian product is the result of
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CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE "XDB"."RESOURCEARRAY" AS VARRAY(500) OF VARCHAR2(256);
PROCEDURE AddOrReplaceResource(
resourceUri VARCHAR2,
resourceContents SYS.XMLTYPE,
public_collections in ResourceArray
) AS
b BOOLEAN;
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I have a late 2011 Macbook Pro, and it is getting slower and slower. The performance was bad with Mavericks as well, but now, with Yosemite installed, it is much more worse. I have never reinstalled my system (only upgraded the osx), so it is an almost 3 years old setup. In that time I have installed a lot of applications, and also deleted a lot. About a year ago I upgraded the RAM, but didn't help too much. Now with Yosemite my startup time is more than 5 minutes, and sometimes the startup freezes (and I have to push the power button long to retry). Safari with 5-10 tabs is extreme slow, and lagging when I switch tabs or open new ones. To launch a new app, for example skype, i have to wait 1-2 minutes. Everything is slow. Sometimes my finder crashes, and works only if I restart the macbook. Another example: if I open the downloads folder in Finder, I have the spinning loading icon for about 20-30 seconds, and just after this time can I see the content of the folder.
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Extremely slow boot. How to get rid of white screen in Windows only boot.

Hey guys I have a Windows 7 only MacBookPro 17". 2.8ghz core 2 duo, 4 gig of ram, 7200 rpm 500gb hd(passes s.m.a.r.t. btw)
It boots extremely slow. I turn the computer on and it stays at the white screen for around 20 seconds. Then it moves to Windows 7 and continues to boot from there. I have a video:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc5taaslow-windows-7-boot-on-macbook-protech
In a windows only setting how would I get it to just boot Windows without going threw the white screen? It also gets hung when logging in on a black screen.
There was a post on Ubuntu forums about Ubuntu only boots about doing something to get it to only boot the MBR. I didn't really understand if this would work with Windows 7 though. Thanks for any help.

I shut down all but one of the extensions, and that seems to have resolved the problem. Thank you!
Now to figure out which extensions I need, and which I don't, because I don't have a clue. I don't remember installing most of these, I only recall one or two (nothing looks spammy like funmoods, but still don't remember when or why these were added...)

S400u extremely slow booting

Recently, my Lenovo S400U started booting extremely slow (takes about 5 minutes to load up to login screen). Same goes with restarting/shutting down, it takes good 5 minutes until the power button stops lighting. Problem is that I've tried a fresh install and it didn't solve the problem. I also tried HD tune, Seagate SeaTools, chkdsk, WD Lifeguard diagnostics - no problems found.
My warranty is ending in March, but I can't afford not having it for a month or so because of studying and work, so I'd like it to get solved other way.
Any ideas of what should I do?

devler,
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Thank you for taking time to post in your inquiry. I can see that you are having issues with your Lenovo IdeaPad S400u. If your computer boots slow, Please try this solution.
Solution :
1. Please try checking this Control Panel > Uninstall a program > Look for Express cache
2. If you found one
3. You need to uninstall it.
4. restart your computer and check the Boot speed.
If you did not find Expresscache or the Boot speed did not change
Try installing expresscache from this link.
And check the boot performance.
I hope that this Solution will be the fix for it
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Sudden Onset of Extremely Slow Boot Up + Clicking Noise

I have an HP Pavilion Slimline s3400z. I shut the computer down as usual at night and when I went to boot up in the morning, the cpu started making a clicking noise, something like a slow-moving metronome. It took upwards of 4 hours to boot. I manually powered off the computer and restarted it in safe mode. After leaving it to boot overnight, I returned to find that the clicking noise had ceased and the computer seemed to function normally. I restarted the computer in 'normal mode' whereupon the clicking noise resumed and once again it has taken hours for the computer to boot. I have had the computer for a little less than two years and up until today it has worked great.
Other observations that may be of some relevance:
-OS = Vista
-the hard drive light flickers as it normally does
-I can open up programs, although they run extremely slow
-the only error message I have received occurred when I hit alt+ctrl+delete; it said something like "logon security option failed." I clicked ok and haven't seen another error message
I don't know if this is related to the Seagate issues (I can't tell if I have a Seagate hard drive or not) or something else. Please advise if there is anything that I can do to save the computer. Thanks.

Sounds like the hard drive is dying a slow death. I suggest to replace it soon, hope you have a Recovery Disk set? You should be able to replace the hdd fairly easily. Usually a couple of screws to remove, unplug 2 cables and slide the old one out.
If you have files that you don't want to lose and don't have a backup on external usb hdd or dvd's I would get that done soon...if vista Backup will run.
If you don't have a Recovery set>> Contact HP
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Extremely Slow Boot!

Help! I recently brought my computer to an apple store for a repair because it would not turn on at all (the battery indicators on the bottom of the battery and on the ring where the power adapter is plugged in were on, but that's it). The computer was sent away and when it returned it turned on, but now has a few new problems.
My computer now takes up to 10 minutes to boot up (it spends this time on the gray screen, with the apple symbol and the little circle going round and round). When the computer boots normally it is not unusual for all processes to run extremely slow. The computer sometimes boots normally (around a minute and a half) but it usually takes more than 6 minutes. When the computer is acting slow (in boot or in OS 10) it makes a light clicking noise like a fast clock. Also, my computer occasionally boots to Darwin BSD.
The sheet that I got when my computer was repaired said that my OS was reconfigured. One of my friends seems to think that they replaced my harddrive improperly.
Please offer any help you can. I'm upset because I have already invested a good amount of money in repairing my computer and I don't want to spend more money with apple's phone support (if it's a software issue).

Try booting into Safe Mode. This will take awhile longer than a normal startup because it does a file check and repair of the hard disk. (Note that it will tell you "Safe Boot" during the startup process if you have done it correctly.)
You will see your normal desktop. Once completely started up, restart normally, and go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Click on the top hard drive icon in the left sidebar and note the S.M.A.R.T. status at the bottom right of the pane. What does it say?
Select the named boot volume in the left sidebar, and repair permissions on it.
See if a little hard drive maintenance helps things out.

Slow booting Tower and AIO

Both of my Beige G3's are slow booting eg black screen for approx two minutes before they hit the grey screen then everything seems to run normally. Figured it was a problem with memory testing so turned it off in the control panel but that changed nothing. Both have 768MB of PC100 memory.
Both are running OS 9.2, the All-in-one has had a cpu swap to a Sonnet G4 500MHZ zif card with factory jumper positions while the Tower has an Apple G3 450MHZ zif card at 70MHZ system bus. Both had the cuda resets and both have new 7200 rpm hard drives with fresh system installations.
The AIO has also been partitioned and has OSX and OS 9.2 on separate partitions with the X partition being 7.5 GB in the first 8 GB of disk space. The AIO is using it's built in video with a 4MB card to bump it up to 6MB of VRAM.
The tower only has the main partition with 9.2 and a scratch disk for PS. The tower is running an ATI Radeon 7000 mac edition video card.
Oh and they have also had brand new PRAM batteries installed so I'm stumped at this point as to what it is or is this normal for both?
Kevin

What version of OSX are you running?
I had a similar issue with my Beige G3 minitower (G3/500 upgrade; 768MB RAM; 80 + 120G Maxtor 7200 rpm drives; ATI Radeon 9200) with 10.2.8; we called it "55 seconds of midnight." However, mine would not show the gray apple screen. After just under a minute, the monitor would come up and be about 2/3 of the way through the progress bar. Other than that, teh computer ran fine.
There are a couple of issues at play. The Beige G3 ALWAYS boots initially to a screen res of 640x480, then switches to the user-selected res after the prefs load. If the monitor or video card cannot support 640x480, you get black until your user prefs load.
Some have reported this after replacing the original hard drive. Others say it happens when they installed a PCI video card. You've done both.
Try temporarily removing RAM until you have LESS than 192MB installed and see if it gets better. If it does, then this Apple article applies:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25564
The bottom line for me is that it's a Jaguar problem. When I installed Panther via XPostFacto v3.1, the problem went away. The old beast runs under Panther much better than it did under Jag.

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I have a Macbook Pro with retina display (2.6/16/512) and it's just 2 weeks old. When i first got it bootup and shutdown times were pretty awesome (Below 15 seconds for cold bootup and 5 seconds for shutdown). Now after installing many applications (final cut pro, aperture, logic pro, adobe master suite [photoshop, illustrator etc.] and few other apps) my computer seems slow both when booting up (25 seconds) and shutting down (31 seconds), it doesn't seem right to me as the rMBP uses an all flash architecture and is supposed to be fast in booting up and shutting down. Now shutting down took longer than booting up (which is kinda wierd) and sometimes when shutting down the menubar on top is still visible even though the screen had gone to the white image. Can anyone provide any explanations or suggestions to remedy this issue? Thanks in advance.

I am experiencing the same problem - except my Boot time is over a minute!!! - When I received it I was amazed at the boot time speed in comparison to my old MacBook Pro 17" - I've noticed the machine has become increasingly more sluggish when using certain applications such as Photoshop and RapidWeaver.
Reinstalling Mountain Lion had no real affect in improving the situation - I do have large Aperture Libraries - and use Creative Suite 5 reguarly.
Would be happy for some advice on what maybe the issue. - I am bit dissapointed at this point - Spending that much money on a machine that I bought for the performance boost and now that has slowed right down isn't sitting right with me.

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I recently got a 13"" macbook pro. System config - Maverick OS/i7 dual core/8GB RAM/750 GB HDD, Almost 690GB of free space available. I am expriencing extremely slow download and internet browsing speed. I have to wait for almost 10-12 seconds for normal sites to download. The app updates and downloads are painstakingly slow.
The internet speeds are working perfectly fine on my Windows Laptop, and even on my mobile phones. So, the there's no issue of network. Also, I have cleared safari cache etc, just to be sure. But nothing's really helping.
Can any one help me here.
Thanks !
Chetan

Please answer as many of the following questions as you can. You may already have answered some of them. In that case, there's no need to repeat the answers.
Have you restarted your router and your broadband device (if they're separate) since you first noticed the problem? If the answer is no, do that now and see whether there's any change.
Quit and relaunch the browser. Any change?
Log out and log back in. Any change?
Enable Private Browsing in the Safari menu. Any change?
Are any other web browsers installed, and are they the same? What about other Internet applications, such as iTunes and the App Store?
If other browsers and Internet applications are also affected, follow these instructions and test. Any change?
If only Safari is affected, launch the Activity Monitor application and enter "web" (without the quotes) in the search box. If a process named "Safari Web Content" is shown in red or is using more than about 5% of a CPU, select it and force it to quit by clicking the X or Quit Process button in the toolbar of the window. There may be more than one such process. Any improvement?
Again, if only Safari is involved, open the iCloud preference pane and uncheck the box marked Safari, if it's checked. Any change?
Are there any other devices on the same network that can browse the Web, and are they affected?
If you can test Safari on another network, is it the same there?
If you connect to your router with Wi-Fi and you can also connect with Ethernet, do that and turn off Wi-Fi. Any difference?

Extremely slow boot on MacBook Air

Hello!
Up to one week ago my MacBook Air was booting in 10 seconds.
Suddenly it takes over 3 minutes to startup. I did not have installed any particular application or service in the last weeks
I checked the logs and the only strange lines are:
May 7 21:23:11 localhost bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1399490591 0
May 7 21:26:38 localhost syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice:
          ASL Module "com.apple.appstore" claims selected messages.
          Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.
May 7 21:26:38 localhost syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice:
          ASL Module "com.apple.authd" sharing output destination "/var/log/system.log" with ASL Module "com.apple.asl".
          Output parameters from ASL Module "com.apple.asl" override any specified in ASL Module "com.apple.authd".
May 7 21:26:38 localhost syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice:
          ASL Module "com.apple.authd" claims selected messages.
          Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.
May 7 21:26:38 localhost syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice:
          ASL Module "com.apple.bookstore" claims selected messages.
          Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.
May 7 21:26:38 localhost syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice:
          ASL Module "com.apple.eventmonitor" claims selected messages.
          Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.
May 7 21:26:38 localhost syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice:
          ASL Module "com.apple.install" claims selected messages.
          Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.
May 7 21:26:38 localhost syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice:
          ASL Module "com.apple.iokit.power" claims selected messages.
          Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.
May 7 21:26:38 localhost syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice:
          ASL Module "com.apple.mail" claims selected messages.
          Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.
May 7 21:26:38 localhost syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice:
          ASL Module "com.apple.MessageTracer" claims selected messages.
          Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.
May 7 21:26:38 localhost syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice:
          ASL Module "com.apple.performance" claims selected messages.
          Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.
May 7 21:26:38 localhost syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice:
          ASL Module "com.apple.securityd" claims selected messages.
          Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.
May 7 21:26:39 --- last message repeated 6 times ---
May 7 21:26:38 localhost kernel[0]: Longterm timer threshold: 1000 ms
Please note the 3 minutes delay betweek line 1 and line 2.
I tried to resolve the issue by resetting PRAM and reparing the disk (no repair required).
Thanks in advance.

Do you have bootcamp or a VM installed?
Remove all external devices then test. Do you still see the same slow boot?
This solution was posted here:
Clear the kext caches:
sudo chown root:admin (enter password)
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
sudo kextcache -system-caches
Do in terminal and reboot. make sure your start up disk is still selected correctly in preferences.
If you search on "ASL Module "com.apple.appstore" claims selected messages." you'll find lots of results and none had the magic bullet fix.
If performance after login is not affected, you might have to live with this until there is a fix.
You need to report it to Apple Feedback so it can be logged and put in the queue to be fixed.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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