I got a refurbed 2.26 Mini back in mid August.
I'm running a 30" Cinema Display at lowered resolution with it, it's fine for me until I pick up the 99 dollar dual link adapter. Running it with mini dvi to DVI, not mini display port.
It came with Leopard, btw.
So I have my 12" PB that I keep my current work on as well, target disc slaved into the Mini.
A few weeks ago, the Mini started flashing the screen on start up. Basically I could not even start up the machine, because there was no video. Also Kernel Panics shut downs whenever video in iPhoto YouTube or Flash video was involved.
I contacted Apple and wondered if the Snow Leopard upgrade wouldn't fix the problem. Upgraded to Snow Leopard last week.
Still had a problem, flashing, kernel panics. Resolved to just take the Mini in for repair. Backed up hard drive last night. Used my little 12" PB 1.5 to drive that 30" Cinema Display... it works like a champ. A slow champ, but a champ.
Today after the TM backup was done on the mini, I decided to target disc the PB into the Mac Mini and see, one more time, if the mini would start up.
Wow.
I got a black diagnostic screen on the mini. Looks like some display issues, major kernel panic it was weird to see my mac "talking to itself" as the problems were listed and the mini attempted to resolve them. Wish there was some way to have done a screen shot...
So I went to get a cup of coffee as this black screen with writing on it is scrolling through the internal video issues or what have you...
When suddenly, my Powerbook hard drive, which was target disc moded but NOT selected as the start up disc, comes on the screen. Very calmly.
NO VIDEO ISSUES here. There has to be SOME BUG IN THE INTEL LEOPARD OR SNOW LEOPARD PROGRAM with video.
So I am currently typing on the Mac Mini through 30" Cinema Display with a Mini DVI to DVI adapter using the 12" Powerbook's hard drive.
What is going on?
The Mini "found" the 12" Powerbook's firewired/target disc moded hard drive and simply started up from it after running some weird diagnostic test on a black screen on the Mini.
This is a software problem. There is no flickering on the screen, nada.
In other words, the flickering/kernel panics stopped on the newish Mac Mini 2.26 when using the Powerbook's hard drive to start it up.
This leads me to believe there are some software coding issues in the Intel 10.5/Snow Leopard firmware or something.
I am running the Mini off the PowerPC Leopard in the 12" Powerbook without a hitch.
I'm running a 30" Cinema Display at lowered resolution with it, it's fine for me until I pick up the 99 dollar dual link adapter. Running it with mini dvi to DVI, not mini display port.
It came with Leopard, btw.
So I have my 12" PB that I keep my current work on as well, target disc slaved into the Mini.
A few weeks ago, the Mini started flashing the screen on start up. Basically I could not even start up the machine, because there was no video. Also Kernel Panics shut downs whenever video in iPhoto YouTube or Flash video was involved.
I contacted Apple and wondered if the Snow Leopard upgrade wouldn't fix the problem. Upgraded to Snow Leopard last week.
Still had a problem, flashing, kernel panics. Resolved to just take the Mini in for repair. Backed up hard drive last night. Used my little 12" PB 1.5 to drive that 30" Cinema Display... it works like a champ. A slow champ, but a champ.
Today after the TM backup was done on the mini, I decided to target disc the PB into the Mac Mini and see, one more time, if the mini would start up.
Wow.
I got a black diagnostic screen on the mini. Looks like some display issues, major kernel panic it was weird to see my mac "talking to itself" as the problems were listed and the mini attempted to resolve them. Wish there was some way to have done a screen shot...
So I went to get a cup of coffee as this black screen with writing on it is scrolling through the internal video issues or what have you...
When suddenly, my Powerbook hard drive, which was target disc moded but NOT selected as the start up disc, comes on the screen. Very calmly.
NO VIDEO ISSUES here. There has to be SOME BUG IN THE INTEL LEOPARD OR SNOW LEOPARD PROGRAM with video.
So I am currently typing on the Mac Mini through 30" Cinema Display with a Mini DVI to DVI adapter using the 12" Powerbook's hard drive.
What is going on?
The Mini "found" the 12" Powerbook's firewired/target disc moded hard drive and simply started up from it after running some weird diagnostic test on a black screen on the Mini.
This is a software problem. There is no flickering on the screen, nada.
In other words, the flickering/kernel panics stopped on the newish Mac Mini 2.26 when using the Powerbook's hard drive to start it up.
This leads me to believe there are some software coding issues in the Intel 10.5/Snow Leopard firmware or something.
I am running the Mini off the PowerPC Leopard in the 12" Powerbook without a hitch.