i have a mac mini and starting today for no reason it turns off it turned off like 5 or 6 times and when i try to turn it on nothing happens for a while i click the power button and i see the power light on but i dont hear the noise that you here when u turn it on. so i keep repeating the same thing a few more times then it comes on. also the times it does not turn on when i see the light if i put my ear up to the mini i hear an small noise. also i have a memory problem but i had this problem for a long time because one min i could have 5gb then another min i could have 50gb and i dont delete or dl anything eather.
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Actually taking it step by step:
1. No Boot Chime when Power Button is depressed
2. Several attempts finally get it to recognize power
3. A small noise occurs when when it doesn't turn on.
4. Available HD status is faulty, one minute the HD reports
5GB available, the next 50 GBs avaialble HD Space.
(The max a mini can hold is 1GB, so this actually points to
available HD/Virtual Memory Space, not Physical Ram).
Since power is apparently there, and #1 and #4 most definitley
point to faulty logic board, I would diagnose as a new logic board
after a half split, testing your power supply and HD on a
good known Mac Mini. Although I can't hear it, I would guess
that #3 is actually your logic board trying to tell you a POST
beep to let you know it is the logic board.
hope you got AppleCare..if so, what are you waiting for?
take it to the nearest ACRS."Everyone has to learn, so that they can one day teach."
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If you dont have Apple Care (but your mini is under the one year limited warranty), buy it, wait thirty days, then report the problem to Apple.
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why wait 30 days?? If you are in the 1 year you have a warranty, be it a limited one, and if you buy the applecare you can call that day and report the problem.
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Originally Posted by AntnyMD
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Yup, I concur with rump and Ant.
"Everyone has to learn, so that they can one day teach."
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Originally Posted by terryj
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