ytry2bsafe
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- Jul 4, 2006
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Looking for some advise
When I turned on my machine today and the white screen with the apple logo came up, instead of the normal spinning icon there was a progress bar displayed and the machine took about 2 minutes to start. When the machine finally started it was very slow and spotlight had to index the HDD. There was also significant screen tearing when moving the mouse over the dock. It was shutdown normally the day before (I selected shutdown from the apple menu). There were no updates installed when the machine was shutdown the night before.
When I restarted the machine everything appears to be normal, except Spotlight had to index the HDD. As some one new to the mac is this a sign of HDD problems or something else's. The machine was bought less than 3 weeks ago. Is there some kind of diagnostic utility that I can run?
Specs:
27 Inch iMac (Mid 2011)
Core i5 Quad Core
12 GB DDR3 RAM
Radeon 6970 1GB RAM
Lion 10.7.3
When I turned on my machine today and the white screen with the apple logo came up, instead of the normal spinning icon there was a progress bar displayed and the machine took about 2 minutes to start. When the machine finally started it was very slow and spotlight had to index the HDD. There was also significant screen tearing when moving the mouse over the dock. It was shutdown normally the day before (I selected shutdown from the apple menu). There were no updates installed when the machine was shutdown the night before.
When I restarted the machine everything appears to be normal, except Spotlight had to index the HDD. As some one new to the mac is this a sign of HDD problems or something else's. The machine was bought less than 3 weeks ago. Is there some kind of diagnostic utility that I can run?
Specs:
27 Inch iMac (Mid 2011)
Core i5 Quad Core
12 GB DDR3 RAM
Radeon 6970 1GB RAM
Lion 10.7.3