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    Macbook Startup weirdness?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Joriarty, Feb 17, 2008.

  1. Joriarty

    Joriarty Newbie

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    I've noticed that whenever I boot up my Macbook, after exiting from the gray/apple logo screen, it sits on just a blank blue screen before it automatically logs me on. Boot time is just a tad over 30 seconds, plus another 2 seconds or something to log on, which seems reasonably speedy to me.

    But all the other Mac's I've seen show a window with a progress bar saying "Mac OS X is starting up...". It doesn't make any difference if I set it to not automatically log me on, the logon screen just spontaneously appears.

    It's only little but still irritating nonetheless... anyone know how to fix this?
    Thanks

    (Macbook 2.2/2GB/10.5.2)
     
    Joriarty, Feb 17, 2008
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  2. ATC

    ATC Notebook Deity

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    For what it's worth, my MBP does the same as yours. I've never seen the "Mac OS X is starting up..." you're describing. Could it be something in Tiger and not in Leopard?
     
    ATC, Feb 17, 2008
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  3. Joriarty

    Joriarty Newbie

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    Could be, but there's nothing I can test this on.

    Seems strange why Apple would remove it though.
     
    Joriarty, Feb 17, 2008
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  4. shabadashawama

    shabadashawama Notebook Consultant

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    My MBP had the startup progress bar like you're describing when it had Tiger on it. As soon as I installed Leopard it was gone. I'm pretty sure Apple just removed it with Leopard.
     
    shabadashawama, Feb 17, 2008
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  5. Arquis

    Arquis Kojima Worshiper

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    Yeah, I'm running Leopard and mine does the same thing. Nothing to worry about.
     
    Arquis, Feb 17, 2008
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  6. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    Do you mean something like this?

    [​IMG]

    If so, yeah, I get that on my Tiger MacBook, but only for about a second or two.
     
    Sam, Feb 17, 2008
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    yeah, but Leopard doesn't have that nice little window, just the blue screen behind it.
     
    Arquis, Feb 17, 2008
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  8. Joriarty

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    Yes, I did mean something like that picture.

    Well, at least no one else gets it, so something isn't broken! Don't know why Apple removed it, I liked that progress bar, now I get some ugly blue screen that changes shades about 3 times before logging me on.
     
    Joriarty, Feb 17, 2008
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