When I wake my Mac from hibernation, (no password required) I need to restart to get sound , I am using an M-Audio 410 audio interface, M-Audio website recommends leaving energy saving settings off, and just turning off monitors vs. sleep mode- any opinions??

Macpro feels sluggish... how do I determine what the issue is? I first noticed it with Safari... pages load really slow; blue bar moves slowly then disappears and then still takes 3-5 seconds to load page fully. worked with my service provider... replaced modem... apple support felt it was interference related... but nothing has changed in my house for two years as far as wireless products are concerned and signal strength is maxed out. could it be my base station?... someone told me they loss their signal strength over time. then I noticed that other apps esp. Mail is slow..used to be really snappy now very sluggish.. I use iPhone 3G and mobile me with push mode. Now Logic has become an issue... I have never had issues when I had tiger and logic 7... The biggest change I've had with my Mac has been the upgrade from tiger to snow leopard, logic 7 to 9 Is there a problem with my operating system?, Basestation? Processors? does snow leoprd require more RAM? I have a MAcPro from 2006, Intel Xeon 2 X3 GHz Dual core... 4 GB RAM... 4 hard drives 160 GB - Bay 1 - 19 GB used 500 GB - Bay 2 - Back Up time machine 300 GB used 500 GB - Bay 3 - 442GB used 750 GB - Operating system and apps etc... logic and logic files - 250 GB used feel like dumping my entire computer... what should I do? Jeff

1. mostly mail and safari are very slow.. Ifind myself waiting for mail to download of web pages to fill... whereas before they were both very reponsive and snappy... I feel like I went back in time to dial up 2. I purchased the family pack upgrade for snow leopard and logic 9 upgrade, as suggested on the apple site... installed snow leopard, then logic 9... was working fine...then restarted my computer and got the grey screen of death... dumped my computer... reinstalled my operating system by using my original discs(tiger) i think then I did software updates..then ran snow leopard upgrade..and then logic7 was installed followed by logic 9 upgrade disc 3. I do regular software upgrades and am current 4. I have done permission repairs as well as disk repairs 5. I have plugged my MAC in directly with an ethernet cable to my service providers modem..seemed to improve safari response 6. 7. - I'll need to try this Thanks Jeff

So I can install snow leopard with the upgrade disk alone? ... I wondered about this? what about logic? same thing just install the upgrade disk?... I am showing two logics in my applications menu... and if I open an old project... the project looks like logic 7 My wife has a macbookpro... about a year newer than mine still running on tiger... running on the same router throughout the house and safari and mail appear normal. her computer has the ability to run airport at a higher ghz setting but I cannot (this was apples explanation as to why they both reacted differently) my mac is in the basement.. the router is on the third floor... I thought of this but, I ran this set up for three years with no issue.. now all of a sudden it's an issue... someone told me that routers lose their strogth over time is this true? router is only about two or three years old

mac tests well on speedtest site whether plugged in directly with ethernet cable or through airport.. speedtest numbers read acceptable, however the way the pages are loading up is where i get a delay... blue line in address bar comes and goes and pages still getting a 3-5 second delay for graphics and text to appear no other wireless networks are detected by my airport... I live in a rural northern community

Is it recommended that your operationg system be installed in harddrive bay #1?

"SL" disk?

can I just switch bays... I currently have my operating system in Bay #4... can I just physically move the hard drive to Bay #1?

Thanks for all of your help Rounik

If I plan on restoring my apps from Time machine, and want to have a clean install of snow leopard and logic should I be deleteing logic7 before I do a final back up with time machine before reinstalling my operating system? currently listed in my apps logic node logic node 9.0.2 logic Pro logic Pro 7 logic Pro 9.0.2