Speeding Up Mac OS X Startup

[jpcwa74]

I have to turn off wifi (airport) and turn it back on to get it to load a page a lot of times. Do I have errors?

[jpcwa74]

My google chrome always says, sending request ...

[jpcwa74]

I linux there are logs where you can see the errors.

[wwcomputerrepair]

This is pointless and will not speed up startup. This resets the PRAM. This will fix errors with: Status of AppleTalk Serial Port Configuration and Port definition Alarm clock setting Application font Serial printer location Autokey rate Autokey delay Speaker volume Attention (beep) sound Double-click time Caret blink time (insertion point rate) Mouse scaling (mouse speed) Startup disk Menu blink count Monitor depth 32-bit addressing Virtual memory RAM disk Disk cache

[jpcwa74]

@wwcomputerrepair errors dont slow down your mac?

[wwcomputerrepair]

@jpcwa74 You don't need to do this unless you see any errors. And they are not booting errors, just that the certain function won't work correctly.

[jpcwa74]

@wwcomputerrepair How do you know if there are errors?

[wwcomputerrepair]

@jpcwa74 If things stop working such as sound, keyboard backlight, wi-fi, etc.

[tipoomaster]

Ever notice how the Apple start up sound (TAAAAAAA) sounds almost exactly like the sound in the beatles song "Day in the life" near the end, at about 4 minutes and twenty seconds (at least on my version) in? I know Jobs is a big beatles fan, is there any correlation there or is it just coincidence?

[Ameithor]

you mean the last E major chord on piano?

yeah sounds similar

[cookieyy]

think its a coincidence

[jonnyankee1221]

thanks man for the video the sound came back when i start it up

[maccult]

fuck this

[honussa]

resetting the ram?? What do you mean?

Doesn't the ram reset (meaning get completely erased) when it gets turned off?

Is this something like "msconfig and min program boot" under Windows Xp?

[jurassicjon]

he probably means the p-ram, which is different. p-ram has a bunch of settings stored in it i believe.

[thepathprimrose]

great video, will this work for the powermac g5 also?

thanks

[Vyggy]

doesn't resetting the PRAM wipe out stuff like the date and time?

[bcshooting]

this fucked up my imac

[theheffner69]

i tried while i was watching the video and it restartedthe page :)

[Lunoma]

It actually works brilliant what a speed difference it's so cool! Thanx a million dude!

[mbplove]

It doesn't make a difference.. I just did it my Macbook pro still takes over 31 seconds to boot.

[germs95]

what happen if i reset my ram?

what will it do? and i need help!

i cant put any disc into my mac!

sumthing is blocking the hole i can only put half of my disc inside please i need help !

[gethresh]

nothing happens when u reset the ram just resets the ramm i do it every few weeks or so and about the disk drive dont do anything unless you really know wat ur doin i would take it to ur local istore they will fix it

[safortune]

hey guys i dont know too much about macs or pc's 4 that matter but im thinking about doing this but wat exactly does it improve???....an will it mess anything up or cause anything 2go wrong???

[UrsaMinor12]

no!

[mrgeekwillnotreturn]

Holy shit! Your dock is FILLED!

[thunder4110]

Dude zapping the PRAM will not speed up the start up time

PRAM has nothing to do with system RAM

[TotallyLunar]

I'd suggest not following this man's instructions.

[TotallyLunar]

Zapping the PRam doesn't help the startup speed, it just works out corrupted memory segments.

[dirtyturben]

sweet i just did it and i was questioning to do it or not because of one of the comments but it worked great. I let it make the "chime" sound three times and let it startup. I then turned it off and back on and it started up about 2x as fast as before. thanks

[beingatliberty]

how the heck is a pram reset going to improve boot speed ? its pram reset not ram reset. The ram is naturally reset by turning the machine off anyways ? a Parameter Ram reset may cause a machine to forget where the boot drive is, though it is not possible to cause it to be formatted, is the 3 x times significant ? pram reset shouldn't drastically improve boot speed, and doing on a regular basis i doubt is too healthy for the machine ? explain the tech behind your theory sounds link mumbo to me.

[infestor1]

I HATE YOU! This reset my hard drive! OMG! All my files are lost!!!!!

[Domreis7337]

What??? That is not physically possible... There is no way a RAM reset can formate your Hard Drive or even delete files....

[infestor1]

well it did.

[Domreis7337]

What your saying is just a load of bull.... If something did happen to your files it had nothing to do with a Ram Reset

[MacGuy1000]

infestor1 I just did it right now nothing happened. if it happend to your, yours is retarted

[wwcomputerrepair]

@infestor1 impossible

[PortalRealm]

does this only work for the time you do this?

or does it stay faster after this?

[Domreis7337]

I do it about once every 2 weeks...

[lol1041]

great vid,BTW ppl that asked about vista,the reason that vista takes 4ever to start up is that vista automatically runs a windows defender virus scan every time it is booted up.anyway awesome vid,i'm going to try it out!

[appledabest76]

do u know how to speed up vista startup

[Domreis7337]

LMAFO... Nope.. dont care... vista sucks in my opinion!

[appledabest76]

i kno because i both mac and vista ......... vista takes forever to startup

[adamfishercox]

Just restart. Then you don't have to be "fast"

[Secondsnow]

thanks for the tip

[victorc211]

Hey i think its only supposed to chime twice. One of them being the initial boot sound the second being the confirm of the cleared PRAM.

[Bujar50]

cool