epicvengeance Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 I have 10.6.3 on my Gigabyte G41M-ES2L with a 1TB HDD and 2 gigs of ram, along with an intel dual core @ 3.1 My Speed is the following: From Power Button to Bios Screen - 7 Seconds From Bios Screen to Bootloader- 15 Seconds From Bootloader to Desktop- 42 Seconds Is my 7 seconds in the begining too long? Post your speeds, and please tell me what I should upgrade on my hackintosh to make it faster booting and load apps. Include your specs too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Ahem.. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=223950 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=208005 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=133896 ... and so on. Help keep the information in one place, it's much easier to search and find what you need that way. Before starting a new topic, please search and check if it already exists. Keep InsanelyMac clean, don't {censored} in your own backyard. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicvengeance Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share Posted July 28, 2010 Thanks for the links, but I wanted to know what I should upgrade for my individual computer. It is the ram? The HDD? Or maybe the cpu My slow boot speeds..... And is it normal for my pc to have "verifying dmi pool data" at start up? That slows it down loads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 And is it normal for my pc to have "verifying dmi pool data" at start up? That slows it down loads. It's normal but it shouldn't take longer than a couple of seconds at the most. Try a CMOS reset. Unplug the power supply from the mains, remove the motherboard battery and close the CLRRTC jumper on your motherboard (refer to your motherboard manual). Leave it like this for 10 minutes. This will reset your BIOS to its default settings so you'll have to set up everything again the way it was before. Disable hardware you don't use such as floppy drive controller, serial port and off chip SATA/PATA controller, if your board has one. Check for a quick boot setting, or other settings that skip lengthy parts of the POST. Again refer to your motherboard manual, it will have a section detailing the BIOS settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielkza Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 The best way to improve boot times is an SSD. My computer is slightly outdated (Core2Duo @ 3.6GHz, 4GB of RAM), but with an SSD, it flies: 10s from power-on to end of POST 10s from POST to desktop (including start-up apps.) And it's not even a fast SSD (OCZ Solid 2 60GB @ 200/120MB/s) for today's standards (a 64GB Crucial C300 gets 300/70MB/s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicvengeance Posted July 30, 2010 Author Share Posted July 30, 2010 Cool, SSD's sound nice. But what about Trim support? Will the SSD drive degrade in performance? Also, I tried the CMOS reset, and now the verifying dmi pool data stays for like 3 seconds. Thanks. Additionally, I realized how disabling my ethernet and sound in the bios makes my computer load so much faster. I think the kexts ares lowing down my boot. Could it be that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerfew Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Jees, Core2Duo's are considered outdated? I hate technology, I'm sittin here cruising with a several-year-old Athlon X2. Hahaha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Also, I tried the CMOS reset, and now the verifying dmi pool data stays for like 3 seconds. Thanks. Cool, I'm glad that helped, I wasn't sure if it was going to do anything or not. Assuming you're not being sarcastic, and 3 seconds is a lot less than it was before.. Additionally, I realized how disabling my ethernet and sound in the bios makes my computer load so much faster. I think the kexts ares lowing down my boot. Could it be that? Yes it could. Look for other ways to patch your sound and LAN and see if they are any faster. If your hardware is popular enough you can usually find several different ways to patch it if you keep searching long enough. If you post some more information about your installation and what you're using for sound and LAN, someone might be able to suggest you something.. Some kernel extensions (such as VoodooHDA that many people use for audio) print a lot of information during boot, sometimes you can disable this by changing something in info.plist inside the kext, look for a debug or verbose setting and switch it off. Having your extensions inside an extensions.mkext (kext cache) can also speed up the boot process. Removing unused devices from the DSDT ACPI table can help as well. I might have other ideas but I'm not going to write them here until I know more about your configuration. Additionally (I repeat) http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1505379 On Snow Leopard boot is noticeably slower in verbose mode than non-verbose because verbose mode runs fsck on your drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicvengeance Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 Well, no that was not sarcasm. Also, I am using the following Kexts: Apple HDA for sound Sleep Enabler Fake smc Jatommicro or something like that. Dont have acess to my mac right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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