remedy Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I've been running 10.8.4 for a couple weeks now, and today when I booted it took a long time (roughly 1:30) to reach the desktop. When I finally reached the desktop, I was met with my cursor stuck in the top left and my keyboard and mouse being unresponsive for about 4 minutes before they finally kicked it. Random spurts of beach balls while I try to get some work done. I have a SSD which is why this is so worrying. TRIM is enabled, but I don't know where to go from here. Applications are taking a stupid long time to start. EDIT: FireWire card is the problem. SYBA UW-1394PCI-A01 is the card. Where do I go from here? My options are there being some kind of fix for this or modifying Aloha's cable to put the ground elsewhere in the case (where?) My system: i5 3570K GTX 660 GA Z77-DS3H SanDisk Extreme II 128GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_black Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Did you make any changes to OS X, drivers, or apps before your last shutdown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remedy Posted July 27, 2013 Author Share Posted July 27, 2013 I have not. I installed a PCI Firewire card for the G5 Front Panel cable, but I can't imagine that it would cause a slow down of this proportion. It detect it natively. Edit: As an example, any time I receive an iMessage on my phone, I get the spinning beach ball in the iMessage application and it takes about 3 to 5 minutes for the message to appear on my Hac. This wasn't the case before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_black Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I have not. I installed a PCI Firewire card for the G5 Front Panel cable, but I can't imagine that it would cause a slow down of this proportion. It detect it natively. You'd be surprised... Try removing it... Remove it and boot with UseKernelCache=No. See how it runs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remedy Posted July 27, 2013 Author Share Posted July 27, 2013 Wow. That worked. How do I fix it so I still have the FireWire card running? If I can't, how can I modify Aloha's cable to have a ground wire? Will disabling it in BIOS work? FireWire card: SYBA UW-1394PCI-A01 is the card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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