stangn99 Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Are there any tricks or tips to speed up the loading process of OSX? My computer takes about 40-50 seconds to load into OSX 10.4.7 (same deal with 10.4.6). Once its in..there iis no lag or anything. It just takes a long time to load up OSX. My hardware specs are: Intel D945PVSKLR motherboard Intel P4 630 3.0ghz cpu (sse3) 1gb OCZ DDR2 667 ram Saphire x1600 XT 256mb gddr3 160gb Maxtor SATA drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 remove hwsensor.kext Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br0adband Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Just curious myself since at one point I have a 30+ second hang time period for one kext. Would removing the hwsensor one actually speed up the process? I'm assuming that kext is responsible for detecting new hardware, and if OSX is installed and working with static hardware, it's not really necessary to keep redetecting the same stuff with each boot? Am I right or wrong? bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazor Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 hwsensor sounds like a driver for temperature sensors etc. just guessing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br0adband Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 The radio waves can't just come out of nowhere, because they just don't. Most people associate radio waves with an antenna, so why don't just make it like this instead: I can see where people would think that, but OSX doesn't natively do that sort of monitoring, you usually need to use some specific application to pick up the "hardware" sensor information. hwsensor.kext sounds more to me (at least) like a kext that checks for differences in the hardware configuration of the machine everytime it boots, sort of like how Windows maintains a "checksum" of sorts for the hardware installed from the previous boot. If the checksum varies then it goes into an accelerated hardware detection routine - which slows down the boot time. Put a new piece of hardware into a Windows machine and the next boot will be slower as it's picked up - and I don't mean a USB device or anything external that's plugged in, I mean some piece of hardware that requires a shutdown to install it then a cold boot to bring it all back up. Of course, I'm still learning about OSX myself soooo... I could be wrong. bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangn99 Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 my g5 takes about 6-7 seconds to load....so my hackintosh shouldn't really take more than 15-20 seconds to load...right? i dont know..im guessing. I will try deleted HWsensor and see if it makes a differnece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 hwsensor makes a big differnece broadband, insted of waitnign for IOKit to time out, it does it stratight away so yuo boot much quicker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangn99 Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 where is hwsensor located? I cant find it in my extensions folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 HWSENSOR.kext is located in /System/Library/Extensions . I removed it from my system and now it boots in ~15 seconds flat every time. *EDIT* Just re-read your post. You are probably looking in the wrong folder (i.e. /Library/Extensions) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangn99 Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 Hey..found it. I was looking for HWSENSOR. ITs actually APPLEHWSENSOR.kext oops. Anyway...deleted it it, repaired permissions and such. Works great now... boots in 8 seconds (even if i turn the computer completely off and back on...still 8 seconds). Ok...i think all my problems are sorted out now....the only thing thats bugging me is the little Square artifacts...but im using MouseLocator as a work around and its reduced the problem by a lot. thanks for the speed up tip.... 8 second boot ups are a lot better than 40 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suleiman Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 does this work on Macbook's too? Has anyone tested this out on an official mac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Unfortunately, as far as I know, this will not work on Apple hardware because, and this is important, it's Apple hardware. It's already working like it should . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangn99 Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 wow..spoke too soon. New problem...im g etting some funky blueish/purple colour on some of my Apps... mainly Adobe productsna d VLC....VLC happens all the time. Whats going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmalm Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 wow..spoke too soon. New problem...im g etting some funky blueish/purple colour on some of my Apps... mainly Adobe productsna d VLC....VLC happens all the time. Whats going on? I have same problem - do you have ATI graphics card? ATI (and maybe some others not fully supported) cards have this kind of feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangn99 Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 hello, yes..i have an x1600 xt made by Saphire. I didn't have any problems like this before. are you on 10.4.7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 If you have an x1600 card, have you performed the Borisbadenov fix? Follow the Boris link in my sig. Posting 1 gives the manual method. Posting 3 gives an installer. They do slightly different things so one may work better than the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangn99 Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 Hey Rammjet. I have had issues with BOTH methods (manual and boris installer). Here is what happens: 1. Install osx...change nothing..but add Graphics Mode = 1280 x1024 in boot.plist *** results = 1280x1024, QE, CI, and QE2D *** 2. Install osx...do the MANUAL edits (boris method)..... *** results = multiple res. options, NO QE, NO CI, and NO QE2D *** 3. Install osx.. and use the Boris Installer method *** results = will load up into a screen..but horizontal lines all over..no usuble. Unable to see anything *** So it seems like if i dont do anything..it works fine...and if i want higher resolution..just add it into the boot.plist . I dont know if it is actually working like it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velinn Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 wow..spoke too soon. New problem...im g etting some funky blueish/purple colour on some of my Apps... mainly Adobe productsna d VLC....VLC happens all the time. Whats going on? I get the same thing when loading apps under Rosetta with an GMA900. Usually if you move it around, or cover the app with a window and move it off the colors will go back to normal. If by "Adobe products" you mean Photoshop I know that is running under Rosetta. Also if you're opening a browser under Rosetta so that Flash will work, same thing. VLC does have a native Intel binary so try looking for that, the performance is (obviously) much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hsarci Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 i deleted applehwsensor.kext a long time ago and my system sitll hangs on the IOkit timeout thing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afraydo Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Are there any tricks or tips to speed up the loading process of OSX? My computer takes about 40-50 seconds to load into OSX 10.4.7 (same deal with 10.4.6). Once its in..there iis no lag or anything. It just takes a long time to load up OSX. My hardware specs are: Intel D945PVSKLR motherboard Intel P4 630 3.0ghz cpu (sse3) 1gb OCZ DDR2 667 ram Saphire x1600 XT 256mb gddr3 160gb Maxtor SATA drive. Wow, I have a SSE4 2.0 GHZ 512MB Ram setup and my computer boots up in just 22 seconds (I'm logged in and ready to start opening apps). Could someone explain to me why my inferior hardware would still boot up that quick compared to Stang99's setup? I'm running OS X 10.4.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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