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#168875 - 03/07/2003 08:31 EMPEG is taking a LONG time to start (> 5 minutes)
thedon journeyman Registered: 18/08/2002 Posts: 65	I noticed in the car yesturday that my EMPEG got horribly slow. To the point where pressing "play" didn't do anything until approximatly 2 minutes later... Today, when I powered it up at home, it took approximatly 5-6 minutes to fully turn on... Each part of the boot-up process (loading visuals, etc) took 1-2 minutes each... Any idea what might be happening? I'm scared!
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#168876 - 03/07/2003 09:54 Re: EMPEG is taking a LONG time to start (> 5 minutes) [Re: thedon]
Roger carpal tunnel Registered: 18/01/2000 Posts: 5682 Loc: London, UK	Any idea what might be happening? Could be a hard disk on its way out. It'll get progressively slower as it tries multiple times to read each failing sector. With the empeg plugged into AC power, listen to the drives -- if it's going whir, whir, click, click, click, click, whir, then it's probably failing. _________________________ -- roger
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#168877 - 03/07/2003 09:59 Re: EMPEG is taking a LONG time to start (> 5 minutes) [Re: Roger]
pgrzelak carpal tunnel Registered: 15/08/2000 Posts: 4859 Loc: New Jersey, USA	Would you also see errors in the boot log? That might be a good thing to capture anyway, if possible. _________________________ *Paul Grzelak* 200GB with 48MB RAM, Illuminated Buttons and Digital Outputs
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#168878 - 03/07/2003 11:00 Re: EMPEG is taking a LONG time to start (> 5 minutes) [Re: pgrzelak]
thedon journeyman Registered: 18/08/2002 Posts: 65	I'm not framiliar with how to do that, is it easy
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#168879 - 03/07/2003 11:05 Re: EMPEG is taking a LONG time to start (> 5 minutes) [Re: thedon]
pgrzelak carpal tunnel Registered: 15/08/2000 Posts: 4859 Loc: New Jersey, USA	Fairly easy. _________________________ *Paul Grzelak* 200GB with 48MB RAM, Illuminated Buttons and Digital Outputs
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