Give this a try if you can. Some of this does sound like the computer is not connected to a monitor. What port are you using for the monitor connection? Open the utilities folder and open the system information or system profiler application, whatever you have. In the list of components, go down to displays and look at what is displayed? Does it say a monitor is connected? On Nov 25, 2012, at 8:48 PM, Kristeen Hughes <khwi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I have read all of the emails about needing a monitor on my mini. I > had already drawn that same conclusion by experimenting without one. I hooked > my monitor back up, But that did not help the problem. When I first boot up > my mini everything is stable and runs fine. That is, finder runs fine. As > soon as I open my first app, no matter which app that is, everything changes. > Everything slows way down and I get messages from every app including Finder > that it is busy. If I am listening to something it will break up InSpeech > every five seconds or so and I will miss a few words until it starts back up > again. This is also true for iTunes. The song I'm listening to will play for > about 10 seconds to 30 seconds and then it will stop for a few seconds then > start up again and so on. > > I have reinitialize my PRAM, but that seems to of made no difference. I have > verified and fixed any disk errors, but I did not have any. I have also > verified and fixed permissions, but those too weren't the problem. I have > tried to run the system monitor but I cannot do this because of the faltering > in the voice and in the computer as a whole. I have unhooked any peripherals, > which are mostly just drives, and that did not help. The only change I had > made up until this point, besides the fact that I disconnected the monitor, > was to purchase a new wireless router. Thinking that that might be the > problem, I disconnected it ends put it on a PC. Although the router and my > wireless network seem to function better on the PC, this did not help the way > the many is running. My mini has the same amount of memory as another mini > that I have in another room of the house. This one is running with no > problems. I am at a loss. > > I realize you folks are not technicians, and I don't expect you to have an > answer for me, but you seem to know so much about all of this that I was > hoping I might get a few bites on something else to try. I appreciate your > intelligence but I don't expect you to solve my problem. Does anyone have an > idea? There's probably something simple that Ive overlooked, but I need to > know what it is because I can't come up with it. > > Thanks for letting me ramble. > > Kristeen > On Nov 25, 2012, at 3:43 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I am way too nice and let a friend have my vga cable. I now have no monitor >> hooked up to my Mini, which is running 10.8.2, and said mini would be >> glaring at me if it could. It is slow to do just about everything, and >> nothing is running now that was not running when I shut down a couple days >> ago. So, for me at least, a monitor is indeed essential. Now I just have to >> pray for a vga cable to fall out of the sky... >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
