Some help on optimizing boot times and upgrade
i have my system running ok (kaly 10.5.2), but i'm having a long boot time (the boot pauses for about 40 seconds in the IOKITwait), is there anything i can do to solve this? Besides this i have a relative good Xbench (about 85.75) output ,…
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- @Artcool Published 2008-12-28
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i have my system running ok (kaly 10.5.2), but i'm having a long boot time (the boot pauses for about 40 seconds in the IOKITwait), is there anything i can do to solve this? Besides this i have a relative good Xbench (about 85.75) output , i think i could have better scores if using a video card instead of onboard video, but i can be wrong...
thanks for any help.
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my specs
i made a signature with my specs, but it just wont become attached , anyway here they are :
Motherboard ABIT I-N73HD (chipset GeForce7100/nForce630i) , CPU Pentium D 3.2 , 2 Gb RAM, SATA HD , SATA DVD-RW, video onboard , Realtek LAN (PCI)
Thank you
many thanks for your reply and help, i will try this approach as soon as i get home today! Happy 2009 to everyone! :
EDIT. just did the IOATAFamily.kext install, and its solved! now i have 35 seconds from pressing the power button to Desktop (including the Darwin 5 seconds countdown)…waw!..3 seconds to shutdown..!
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check this:
Solution to the IOKitWaitQuiet problem →
(pointing to: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=138460… ↗)
it helped me speeding boot down to ~40sec