Thanks. My troubles are more slowness opening mail and apps, and occasional audio stuttering even with Voiceover. I still haven't gone ahead with the huge step of the clean install, but maybe resetting the PRAM will help things. It's worth a shot at least. This SMC reset does not seem as likely to help, and I have a Mini so can't remove the battery or anything. On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
> The PRAM reset stuff happens as part of the hardware self-check, long before > any boot loaders and other software is executed. What are the advantages of > resetting the PRAM? PRAM is used to hold a lot of little details > semi-permanently. Things related to which drive/partition to boot, > speaker/sound settings, display settings and more. If they get mangled > somehow your machine can start behaving badly while it goes on a fruitless > search for a drive which doesn't exist or route sound to nowhere. So doing a > resent puts things back to factory fresh. Exactly what is stored on PRAM > varies between Mac models. There is also the SMC for System Management > Controller on Intel Macs. The SMC controls things like power, fans and system > performance so you might want to try resetting that as well. On a laptop > you'll have to unplug it, pull the battery and hold down the power button for > 5 seconds to drain the last bit of juice. That resets the SMC to factory. > > CB > > On 1/6/14 4:56 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >> What if you have a boot manager? I have Refit installed, so will this work >> for me or do I need to boot into Mac and then hold down the keys? Also, what >> exactly are the advantages of doing this? I've heard a lot about it, but am >> not sure why one might actually need to do it. >> On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: >> >>> Power down your machine, hold down command+option+P+R and keep holding them >>> while you power up the machine. You should hear the startup sound after a >>> bit. I usually keep them down until I've heard the startup sound a couple >>> time - maybe three or four - and then let off the keys to allow a normal >>> startup. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 1/6/14 12:13 PM, Les Kriegler wrote: >>>> Can someone explain the procedure to reset the Prams on a Mac? My system >>>> has slowed down and I think this might help. I tried to search the >>>> archives, but could not do so as I didn't find a link in the e-mail >>>> message to do so as is the case with the iPhone list. Thanks. >>>> >>>> Les >>>> >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@gmail.com >> >> >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
