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Mac mini nightmare please help me

WhiteIphone5

WhiteIphone5

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May 27, 2011
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Lima, Peru
2011 Mac mini

I had it connected it to my 55" GT50 via HDMI, worked flawlessly
Then my brother gave me his 34" Polaroid, I wanted to use my Mac mini with that instead but it doesn't work. I use the same HDMI cable and when I plug it in I see like pixels everywhere looks as if the Mac mini GPU died or is failing, but them when I connect it to the 55 again it works -.-
So I'm thinking maybe the 34" TV has some issue or the port is not working, so I connect my Apple TV To it and it works fine

Ugh what's going on?
 
Have you plugged any other HDMI device into the Polaroid to see if it's just a bad display?
 
Shows this when says no signal.
 

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Just tried on my moms TV, and it works fine.
There's something about this Polaroid with the mac that doesn't want to work together

Update: When the Mac rebooted it plugged it on another tv and copied the code
can anyone find out why its happening with this specific tv?

Interval Since Last Panic Report: 44274 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 3
Anonymous UUID: 62D09B23-B171-921A-85C8-010E5C514C7E

Mon Jun 24 17:52:56 2013
Machine-check capabilities 0x0000000000000c07:
family: 6 model: 42 stepping: 7 microcode: 26
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2415M CPU @ 2.30GHz
7 error-reporting banks
threshold-based error status present
extended corrected memory error handling present
Processor 0: machine-check status 0x0000000000000005:
restart IP valid
machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0xb200000011000402 valid
MCA error code: 0x0402
Model specific error code: 0x1100
Other information: 0x00000000
Threshold-based status: Undefined
Status bits:
Processor context corrupt
Error enabled
Uncorrected error
IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
Processor 1: machine-check status 0x0000000000000005:
restart IP valid
machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0xb200000011000402 valid
MCA error code: 0x0402
Model specific error code: 0x1100
Other information: 0x00000000
Threshold-based status: Undefined
Status bits:
Processor context corrupt
Error enabled
Uncorrected error
IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
Processor 2: no machine-check status reported
Processor 3: no machine-check status reported
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80060b8ec9): "Machine Check at 0xffffff7f877d425f, registers:\n" "CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x00007fff87993a52, CR3: 0x00000000082d4000, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0\n" "RAX: 0xffffff8069e10000, RBX: 0xffffff80102bb000, RCX: 0xffffff800f656400, RDX: 0x0000000000252525\n" "RSP: 0xffffff806360bed0, RBP: 0xffffff806360bed0, RSI: 0x000000000004a894, RDI: 0xffffff8010023000\n" "R8: 0xffffff800f656500, R9: 0xffffff800f656600, R10: 0x0000000000000025, R11: 0xffffff800667def8\n" "R12: 0x0000000000000000, R13: 0xffffff8010117480, R14: 0x0000000000000000, R15: 0xffffff7f86b7e860\n" "RFL: 0x0000000000000202, RIP: 0xffffff7f877d425f, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010\n" "Error code: 0x0000000000000000\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.24.15/osfmk/i386/trap_native.c:280
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8005f0bd20 : 0xffffff800601d626
0xffffff8005f0bd90 : 0xffffff80060b8ec9
0xffffff8005f0bf00 : 0xffffff80060cea4f
0xffffff806360bed0 : 0xffffff7f877c6b99
0xffffff806360bee0 : 0xffffff7f86b7e3f3
0xffffff806360bf00 : 0xffffff800644b1ab
0xffffff806360bf60 : 0xffffff800603e25e
0xffffff806360bfb0 : 0xffffff80060b3137
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[990D1A42-DF16-3AB9-ABC1-6A88AC142244]@0xffffff7f86b75000->0xffffff7f86bacfff
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com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB(8.1.2)[34C96C82-1E3B-3165-B6AD-85A9EC3376CE]@0xffffff7f877bc000->0xffffff7f877e9fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[A35915E8-C1B0-3C0F-81DF-5515BC9002FC]@0xffffff7f86ae1000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffffff7f86646000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[990D1A42-DF16-3AB9-ABC1-6A88AC142244]@0xffffff7f86b75000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
12E55

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May 1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 896CB1E3-AB79-3DF1-B595-549DFFDF3D36
Kernel slide: 0x0000000005e00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8006000000
System model name: Macmini5,1 (Mac-8ED6AF5B48C039E1)

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You could try a mini display port to VGA or DVI adapter, although as they are only suggestions which may not work it may be a slightly costly method of problem elimination. You will also need seperate sound as well so whilst they may work they are not the best option. Also your TV will need to support VGA or DVI.

I have a similar problem at home. I have three minis that all work absolutely fine on a Sony Bravia LCD 40". They sort of work on a plasma 50" if I adjust the overscan, and none of them work on an elcheapo 21" TV I have. Although my Apple TV 3 and MacBook Air works fine on that 21" TV even though it is HDMI or DVI to HDMI (respectively) as well. So it appears to be the Mac mini in my case.
 
opinio said:
You could try a mini display port to VGA or DVI adapter, although as they are only suggestions which may not work it may be a slightly costly method of problem elimination. You will also need seperate sound as well so whilst they may work they are not the best option. Also your TV will need to support VGA or DVI.

I have a similar problem at home. I have three minis that all work absolutely fine on a Sony Bravia LCD 40". They sort of work on a plasma 50" if I adjust the overscan, and none of them work on an elcheapo 21" TV I have. Although my Apple TV 3 and MacBook Air works fine on that 21" TV even though it is HDMI or DVI to HDMI (respectively) as well. So it appears to be the Mac mini in my case.
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i really want to know whats the problem behind it? why is it happening?
 
WhiteIphone5 said:
i really want to know whats the problem behind it? why is it happening?
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I am purely guessing (and don't quote me on this) but...

I am guessing there are some universally accepted forms of HDMI based video signals that Apple and the TV/monitor companies etc must build their products by. Unfortunately they do not always match up.

For example USB 2.0 standards call for the amps to be 0.5 Amps, but Apple breaches that standard for its iPad and Super Drive by having them at 2.01 and 1.6 Amps respectively (i believe it is 1.6 from memory?). That is why a super drive will usually not work on any other USB port than a modern Mac port because it only gets 0.5 assigned. And you can not charge an iPad on a standard USB port but can slow chanrge it on a iPhone charger which works at 1 amp. Apple does not always follow standards.

This doesn't help you I know. Sorry.
 
opinio said:
I am purely guessing (and don't quote me on this) but...

I am guessing there are some universally accepted forms of HDMI based video signals that Apple and the TV/monitor companies etc must build their products by. Unfortunately they do not always match up.

For example USB 2.0 standards call for the amps to be 0.5 Amps, but Apple breaches that standard for its iPad and Super Drive by having them at 2.01 and 1.6 Amps respectively (i believe it is 1.6 from memory?). That is why a super drive will usually not work on any other USB port than a modern Mac port because it only gets 0.5 assigned. And you can not charge an iPad on a standard USB port but can slow chanrge it on a iPhone charger which works at 1 amp. Apple does not always follow standards.

This doesn't help you I know. Sorry.
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Thanks so much for the info wether is wrong or not, I appreciate it!!

I'm going to order thunderbolt to VGA cable.
 
Maybe the Mac is still outputting a 1080P signal from being hooked up to the other TVs (that are 1080P models) and the Polaroid is 720P and the Mac isn't switching to the proper resolution?
 
fhall1 said:
Maybe the Mac is still outputting a 1080P signal from being hooked up to the other TVs (that are 1080P models) and the Polaroid is 720P and the Mac isn't switching to the proper resolution?
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I went on the gt50 lowered to 720p and connected to Polaroid and same issue.

You know what's weird, the first time i did it, it worked. I disconnected Mac mini from gt50 and connected to Polaroid and it worked, until I choose best for display rather than scaled. Then screen went blue and it never worked again.
 
opinio said:
In display settings you can set the screen display format as pal or ntsc. ntsc is US/Can/JP etc while Australia (and i think UK) is pal.
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yeah and since I have done the mistake of the wrong setting years ago I set it at pal not nstc I think he did the same thing. that messed up screen looks like mine did back in 2007
 
WhiteIphone5 said:
On the tv's menu display? Or on the Mac mini?
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My error was on the choice of resolutions for the display.

it was a 1080i tv crt 32 inch weighed in at 250 pounds.


I picked an oddball resolution choice. something like what you see although this is a monitor and I can not make that mistake
 

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