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Tag: Mac Mini

  • When it rains, it pours

    Probably not the best start to the new year. Turns out my Mac Mini is having some serious memory issues, looks like I have a problem dimm socket. Opened it up to see if things had been seated correctly, appears the lower dimm socket on side clip is not right. Guess I got a dud, might explain the issues I have been having. Booked into Sydney Apple Store for Tuesday 9:30am.

    And to top it off, if you run hdhomerun unit and don’t get any video out of Windows 7 Media Center from your tuners, it’s the latest nvidia drivers to blame. Attempted to go a beta set, and when start having lots of panic issues. Rolled back, and still had the same issues on the versions I use to run.

    So set about reinstalling Windows 7. Lucky I have a extra drive in the system, means I can rebuild onto it, and not blow away old system drive until all copied/setup on new install.

  • OSX Lion on 2Gb ram is painfull

    Since my ram went fubar in the Mac Mini, all I can say is that running Lion on 2Gb ram is painfull.

    Can’t wait for the other ram to arrive that I ordered, as going back to the original factory memory will kill me. It’s like the machine is constantly swapping, which it probably is based on the sort of work I need to do on it from time to time.

  • Great ram prices

    With Ram being so cheap I purchased 8Gb kit for Mac Mini, since my other set had serious hardware faults after being replaced twice, and I went back to 4Gb kit and it developed this problem too.

    Here is hoping for less bad luck with memory in the system. Purchased from Other World Computer (macsales.com)

  • Mac Mini 4,1 Kernel Panics

    Been having some very odd issues on the Mac Mini 4,1 system I have. It looks like the mouse started to play up, and oddly enough new batteries never changed the issue. Soon as I removed the ram, and put back factory memory. It all came good. It’s safe to say the 2 x 2gb modules I got have some issues. Think I will bin those, as they had no warranty.

    It looks like Other World Computing (macsales.com) has some great prices. Might order from them some replacements.