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08-29-2013, 02:44 AM
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.
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08-29-2013, 02:44 AM
LOL F-U-B-A-R came out as @#$%&
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08-29-2013, 02:53 AM
Bad week for Mac mini.
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08-29-2013, 05:51 PM
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.
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08-29-2013, 07:52 PM
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.
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08-29-2013, 10:11 PM
Try booting from external? I presume the Mini doesn't have an optical drive...
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08-29-2013, 10:13 PM
...or, hmmm, get a FW cable, connect the two with the MBP on, and try to start up the Mini in FW target mode?
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08-29-2013, 11:45 PM
Mac mini doesn't even turn on. I press the button and nothing nada. It does have a cd drive.
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08-30-2013, 03:34 AM
Try a new power brick.
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08-31-2013, 12:30 AM
And now I pull the power brick and plug it in again - Boom - Mac mini starts up.

The powerbrick is going bad - C(-)ris Smile

All is well. I still want to get a new mini though
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