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2011 Mini crashed for first time - should I worry?

frank4

frank4

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Oct 17, 2011
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I have had this Mac mini for just over 3 years and it has never crashed or frozen until an hour ago. There might have been a few Safari restarts required in the first year and that is the only reliability issue that I can remember.

The Mini was running Safari and Mail and I had not touched it for a few minutes and the Screen Saver had not yet kicked in. I run dual displays and I noticed one of the displays had a slightly "off" colour on its desktop which is normally "solid aqua graphite" on both displays. The Mini was frozen and unresponsive.

A reboot seems to have brought it back to normal.

I wonder what might have caused the crash. Any ideas? I have not changed the Mini peripheral cables, RAM, etc for a long time.

About 10 years ago I had an old Windows computer that would sometimes freeze when the house gas furnace fan motor turned on (no problems since then). Maybe I have a "dirty AC power" issue in my house.
 
frank4 said:
I have had this Mac mini for just over 3 years and it has never crashed or frozen until an hour ago. There might have been a few Safari restarts required in the first year and that is the only reliability issue that I can remember.

The Mini was running Safari and Mail and I had not touched it for a few minutes and the Screen Saver had not yet kicked in. I run dual displays and I noticed one of the displays had a slightly "off" colour on its desktop which is normally "solid aqua graphite" on both displays. The Mini was frozen and unresponsive.

A reboot seems to have brought it back to normal.

I wonder what might have caused the crash. Any ideas? I have not changed the Mini peripheral cables, RAM, etc for a long time.

About 10 years ago I had an old Windows computer that would sometimes freeze when the house gas furnace fan motor turned on (no problems since then). Maybe I have a "dirty AC power" issue in my house.
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For 3 years and only 1 crash, that's impressive in my book.

I'm more impressed if the mac mini was left on for the whole 3 years and not shut down.

I wouldn't worry too much.
 
Well I hope this freeze is just a one-time event.

I ran Disk Utility and the HD seems OK, although there were a small number of permission errors (now repaired).
 
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