I bought a 2009 Mac Mini (no hard drive included) with 8gb of G. Skill memory from Ebay and I installed a Samsung 750 Evo into it. However I'm not getting any kind of chime or video on my monitor? I'm using a mini display port to hdmi adapter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PJ3LSIG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1). I'm a complete beginner with Mac (this is my first mac) so I'm confused on what's going on here. Could I have received a broken Mac Mini? The seller claims it was tested and works, they just wanted to keep the original hard drive I guess. The seller also has 100% feedback with hundreds of sales, so I'm still under the impression this is suppose to be a working Mac..
My other theory is that there needs to be something on the SSD. Currently it's just a blank un-partitioned SSD. Does this matter? Is it not like windows where I'll see a bios screen or something? I'm very confused.. I really hope it's nothing major. I was hoping to be able to use this to mess around in Garageband and perhaps Logic in the future if it'll run okay, as well as install High Sierra onto it using dosdude1's patcher. Worse comes to worse maybe I can contact the seller or even do a Paypal charge back if it comes to that. I really want to get this working. Little dissappointed that I'm not seeing anything on screen.
Also if it makes any difference, the power light turns on and I just hear the fan spinning. I also tried putting in the original install disc's (as well as the copy of 10.6.3 snow leopard which it came with) and holding the letter C on my keyboard when it boots but I get nothing. Sounds like the disc gets choked up a little when it goes in as well (makes odd noises every few seconds), then after a little bit the mac mini just spits it out.. Is it suppose to do that? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
[doublepost=1560627598][/doublepost]It’s not letting me edit my post for some reason but I just tried an NVRAM/SMC reset, as well as booting from a bootable USB which I created using TransMac on my Windows PC. Nothing :/
My other theory is that there needs to be something on the SSD. Currently it's just a blank un-partitioned SSD. Does this matter? Is it not like windows where I'll see a bios screen or something? I'm very confused.. I really hope it's nothing major. I was hoping to be able to use this to mess around in Garageband and perhaps Logic in the future if it'll run okay, as well as install High Sierra onto it using dosdude1's patcher. Worse comes to worse maybe I can contact the seller or even do a Paypal charge back if it comes to that. I really want to get this working. Little dissappointed that I'm not seeing anything on screen.
Also if it makes any difference, the power light turns on and I just hear the fan spinning. I also tried putting in the original install disc's (as well as the copy of 10.6.3 snow leopard which it came with) and holding the letter C on my keyboard when it boots but I get nothing. Sounds like the disc gets choked up a little when it goes in as well (makes odd noises every few seconds), then after a little bit the mac mini just spits it out.. Is it suppose to do that? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
[doublepost=1560627598][/doublepost]It’s not letting me edit my post for some reason but I just tried an NVRAM/SMC reset, as well as booting from a bootable USB which I created using TransMac on my Windows PC. Nothing :/
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