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Consistent Freezing after SSD install

xlii said:
Before the SSD got added... was the HDD your boot drive? If the answer is yes, my guess would be that the shop that did the SSD install didn't touch the HDD and it would still be bootable.

Try to boot from the HDD inside of your Mac. Shut down your machine. Turn it back on and at the same time hold down the option key and keep it down until the boot selection menu appears. If you see your Media HHD, select it as your boot drive and away you go. Then you could use it to check and repair the SSD if it is needed using the Disk Utility app.

Your SSD is new and the firmware that it shipped with is not old. It should work just fine with your Mac.

You could have a faulty SSD or more likely when the machine was re-assembled after the SSD install a cable was not properly seated and it making poor contact.
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I already wiped my 'Media HDD' so it is no longer bootable.

As far as the firmware goes, it IS outdated, by 1 version. They released a new update just days after I ordered mine. I'm trying to get that updated but not sure how.

I don't think it would be an installation / connectivity problem because I think I would have a lot more problems than just freezing after waking from sleep.

My Mac didn't freeze at all yesterday.... but I'll test again when I get home (it's been sleeping all night and all day)


I'm downloading the .iso to my work PC and going to try to create a bootable flash again this way if possible.
 
sou1 so1di3r said:
I already wiped my 'Media HDD' so it is no longer bootable.

As far as the firmware goes, it IS outdated, by 1 version. They released a new update just days after I ordered mine. I'm trying to get that updated but not sure how.

I don't think it would be an installation / connectivity problem because I think I would have a lot more problems than just freezing after waking from sleep.

My Mac didn't freeze at all yesterday.... but I'll test again when I get home (it's been sleeping all night and all day)


I'm downloading the .iso to my work PC and going to try to create a bootable flash again this way if possible.
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annnnnnnnnd it froze again as soon as I woke it up after work :(
 
update:

I finally was able to get the firmware installed. Found an old CD/DVD drive from a PC at work and used a sata to USB adapter to hook it up haha.


but, I don't think it worked. I've had to hard boot it now a couple times in the past few days since upgrading the firmware. every time after waking from sleep for at least 8+ hours.

Today, I just got home for the first time since 7am and could hear a loud fan in my apartment.

I thought it was weird because I don't own any fans. Then I realized my mini was running on overdrive... for who knows how long??!:confused: was completely frozen. hard booted it and it didnt even startup correctly... no menu bar showed?


sheesh. I'm out of ideas. It's been over a month now. It's like I just put $300 into my mac to make it better and really all I did was break it. I can't take it to apple right? I have applecare but that must be voided now. Take it back to the mac shop, have them take the drive out, then take it to apple?

who knows.... this sucks :(
 
I guess that I would contact the local repair shop and have them double-check their installation. They could have not seated a ribbon cable correctly.

If that does not correct the issue, I would contact MacSales and see what they recommend. They do offer installation of SSDs for $100 IIRC. You would have to ship your Mini to them obviously for the installation. You could have a hardware issue with the SSD causing the issue.

It could be software based, but you said earlier that there were no logs to show that was the case. Lastly, it could be an intermittent failure of the logic board or CPU, but I think that is less likely. I hope that you find a quick fix.
 
I recently put an SSD into my mini and had beach balls and freezes, you need to make a cd of the firmware update and install it into your machine, go to Best Buy or another store Walmart, get a external CD writer and a few CD's and go to the makers web site and get it done. Also go into preferences, go to energy saver, uncheck "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" when you go to bed leave the machine on this will let the SSD Level itself, can take as long as 8 hrs. If you don't get the external CD writer, take it back to where you had the SSD put in and let them do it ,borrow a CD writer. There is one more thing take out the SSD and put a fast 1T hard drive,go get yourself a good dinner at the place of your choice, put the SSD on Ebay and forget the whole thing. Tom
 
tom29786 said:
I recently put an SSD into my mini and had beach balls and freezes, you need to make a cd of the firmware update and install it into your machine, go to Best Buy or another store Walmart, get a external CD writer and a few CD's and go to the makers web site and get it done. Also go into preferences, go to energy saver, uncheck "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" when you go to bed leave the machine on this will let the SSD Level itself, can take as long as 8 hrs. If you don't get the external CD writer, take it back to where you had the SSD put in and let them do it ,borrow a CD writer. There is one more thing take out the SSD and put a fast 1T hard drive,go get yourself a good dinner at the place of your choice, put the SSD on Ebay and forget the whole thing. Tom
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I already upgraded the firmware. Didn't help

I can try the "put hard disks to sleep". Right now I'm just having my mac never go to sleep... not what I want though.

And yeah... don't really want to go back to using a 7200 rpm drive :eek:
 
If it's anything like my 2012 mini with the Samsung 240 SSD, swapping the drives helped! I had constant lock ups and slow throughout when the SSD was in the place where the original drive was. Good luck!
 
So I've basically just had my mac always on and never sleeping for the past few months since it can't sleep. except, I want it to be able to sleep.

so I'm thinking about trying to wipe clean, update my firmware again, and then install Mavericks when it is out.

What is the best way to do this? Will I be able to easily restore both my Media drive and OS drive from my time machine backup?
 
I have the same problem with my late 2009 mini and 240G OWC SSD. The funny thing is that if I put the mini to sleep manually (either by drop down apple menu or press option+command+eject) it will wake up fine but if it goes to sleep automatically it will be frozen when wake up.

My work around is to put it to sleep manually. It is annoying but you will get used to it. Not sure how different the manual sleep and automatic sleep are though.
 
chompop said:
I have the same problem with my late 2009 mini and 240G OWC SSD. The funny thing is that if I put the mini to sleep manually (either by drop down apple menu or press option+command+eject) it will wake up fine but if it goes to sleep automatically it will be frozen when wake up.

My work around is to put it to sleep manually. It is annoying but you will get used to it. Not sure how different the manual sleep and automatic sleep are though.
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weird, I have never thought to try this.

maybe I will.

How are you running your SSD+ HDD combo, just as separate drives?

I didn't realize the DIY Fusion drive "hack" is available, I wonder if it is worth it to try that.

I still need to update my SSD firmware again, they have a new one out as of a few months ago. I have the OWC 6G SSD 128GB
 
I run my SSD+HDD as separate drives. HDD in original location and SSD in super drive bay.

I do not think fusion drive would help. In my case the OS did not cause freezing but the SSD did. Program that is already loaded and do not require disk access will continue to run. the whole system freezes eventually as it requires disk access.

If you keep the system monitor on you will see there is no disk activity after it wake up from automatic sleep.
 
It's best to put the SSD in the main/original bay, HD in the secondary / superdrive location. I run mine separate and when installing, I do remember specifically being warned in the instructions I found to do this, otherwise problems would ensue.
 
OWC 6G SSD in 2012 mini

I bought the Data Doubler kit and a 240 GB SSD from OWC. Their instructions show installing the SSD in the upper drive bay. In fact, if the HDD is - as occasionally happens - installed in the upper bay, they have to send you an additional SATA cable.

I had one problem when I first turned the system on, the HDD wasn't available. I re-opened the case, and sure enough, the HDD SATA cable never got seated properly. Re-seated it, closed up and everything worked. Backed up the system with SuperDuper, and then installed the OS on the SSD. This created a recovery partition on the SSD. I also created a third partition of 60 GB for a spare OS partition.

Using the spare boot partition, I set up a fusion drive with the ~179 GB SSD partition and the ~999 GB partition on the HDD. Formatted using diskutil CS commands, and restored from external disk. Never seen a freeze on this box.

My problems are that the HDMI display port produces a muddy display on a 1080p HDTV that my 2009 Mac mini displays perfectly on. And if I use the Thunderbolt port, the display on a 1920x1080 23" monitor is perfect. Second, if I connect a USB 3.0 drive to the mini, the Apple Magic Mouse doesn't work worth rat poop. Which is disappointing.

But no disk or SSD problems.
 
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