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Dead Mac mini - bwicklander - 08-29-2013
After last week dealing with a fubar btree hard drive/Ram stick error on my MBP- my mac mini just took a dump. On another note my old macs keep chugging along year after year.
New macs don't last like they used to last. Bummer.
Re: Dead Mac mini - bwicklander - 08-29-2013
LOL F-U-B-A-R came out as @#$%&
Re: Dead Mac mini - Acer - 08-29-2013
Bad week for Mac mini.
Re: Dead Mac mini - pdq - 08-29-2013
bwicklander wrote:
...Ram stick error on my MBP- my mac mini just took a dump.
New macs don't last like they used to last. Bummer.
Bad/cheap RAM?
Took a dump how?
Anyway, when I first got my mini last year, I used migration assistant to bring the old stuff from the previous mac, on which I had previously used migration assistant to get the old stuff from the mac before that, and so on...it was apparently finally too much, and I started getting hangs and other weird behaviors. After futzing around, I finally moved the native hard drive to an external, put a fresh copy of ML on a new SSD internal, made sure everything was working well, then made a somewhat more selective migration to the new drive.
Works like a dream now. It's a quad-core i7, 16 GB. Been resisting the impulse to spring for another, matched SATA 3.0 SSD and have a dual-channel internal drive setup for those >1000 MB/sec read/writes - but not sure I want to mess with my current happy setup for the sake of a higher number on a drive test.
Re: Dead Mac mini - bwicklander - 08-29-2013
The ram is corsair. My mbp was having multiple freezes I ran apple hardware test and the ram came back as bad. I ran it a few times. My Mac mini just won't start up. I would like to get a quadcore i7 but will probably get an i5 though. I was able to do a backup before it died.
Re: Dead Mac mini - pdq - 08-29-2013
Try booting from external? I presume the Mini doesn't have an optical drive...
Re: Dead Mac mini - pdq - 08-29-2013
...or, hmmm, get a FW cable, connect the two with the MBP on, and try to start up the Mini in FW target mode?
Re: Dead Mac mini - bwicklander - 08-29-2013
Mac mini doesn't even turn on. I press the button and nothing nada. It does have a cd drive.
Re: Dead Mac mini - C(-)ris - 08-30-2013
Try a new power brick.
Re: Dead Mac mini - bwicklander - 08-31-2013
And now I pull the power brick and plug it in again - Boom - Mac mini starts up.
The powerbrick is going bad - C(-)ris
All is well. I still want to get a new mini though