Al Spaceman
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I really hope someone can help me with this problem, it's really annoying me and I find it quite serious.
When I try to log in on my iMac (that's an 800MHz G4 iMac, bought before the price change) running MacOS X 10.1.3, nothing seems to happen. All I get is a sky blue background and a spinning cursor. I can move the cursor with the mouse, but I can't do anything else. Furthermore, I can't hear any hard drive activity while the cursor is spinning away.
If I leave the computer in this state for about ten minutes (this is my estimate, I haven't timed it), it will eventually display the login screen, and everything works like a charm after that. But to make matters worse, this ten minute delay in displaying the login screen was two minutes the day before yesterday, and seems to be increasing further at the same rate!
I'm new to MacOS X (as I have had no experience of it before I got my new iMac), but I'm pretty sure this isn't normal. Making the problem even more confusing is that the login screen sometimes shows up with no delay. But usually it's the spinning cursor and sky blue background for ten minutes every time I start up or restart my system, or when I just log out.
If anyone knows how to solve this problem, or some other place where I might get help, please tell me!
- Al "Plea For Help" Spaceman
When I try to log in on my iMac (that's an 800MHz G4 iMac, bought before the price change) running MacOS X 10.1.3, nothing seems to happen. All I get is a sky blue background and a spinning cursor. I can move the cursor with the mouse, but I can't do anything else. Furthermore, I can't hear any hard drive activity while the cursor is spinning away.
If I leave the computer in this state for about ten minutes (this is my estimate, I haven't timed it), it will eventually display the login screen, and everything works like a charm after that. But to make matters worse, this ten minute delay in displaying the login screen was two minutes the day before yesterday, and seems to be increasing further at the same rate!
I'm new to MacOS X (as I have had no experience of it before I got my new iMac), but I'm pretty sure this isn't normal. Making the problem even more confusing is that the login screen sometimes shows up with no delay. But usually it's the spinning cursor and sky blue background for ten minutes every time I start up or restart my system, or when I just log out.
If anyone knows how to solve this problem, or some other place where I might get help, please tell me!
- Al "Plea For Help" Spaceman