Mac mini for sale 2011 free#
Mac mini for sale 2011 mac#

Now I just get the chime, apple logo appears then either white screen, black screen or black and white vertical lines. That went on for a month or 6 weeks then the machine died. Started restarting for no reason about once a week or so. While I type this the CPU is 42вЊ and the GPU is 43вЊ.Дon't forget to clean it with air from dust inside first (block the fan with the finger from rotating while doing this) This is my set up for TG Pro, I usually always have Unitењ“D or Maya open so the GPU is always under comparable high load but it keeps running. Take a look at it, the developer offers a demo for it.

Mac mini for sale 2011 free#

I've already had higher fan speeds before by using a free tool, but this was not enough for this task because it would have required to overall set the speed of the fan way higher than necessary because it offered only one setting. This way I keep my mini always way below 65вЊ and it usually is still comparable silent. I've bought a really good tool to override the control of my temperatures and fan speed which offers a complex way to setup fan speeds for different temperatures. My mini runs perfectly since I've cleaned it from dusty and raised the fan speed (zero problems since then). Just never let it reach high temperatures again.

If it happens just after restarting a hot machine then there is still a good chance to keep the mini alive. If this happened at a fresh restart of a completely cool machine than it is a really bad sign.

Mac mini for sale 2011 mac#

So possibly sooner or later all Mac Minis with a HD 6300M might fail? They say 'Production faults of the AMD graphics chip in the Mac Mini Mid 2011 have become known' (вЂњ Bei Mac mini Modellen aus Mid 2011 wurde ein Fehler in der Produktion von ATI AMD Grafikchips bekannt.вЂњ)

I hope it really was just overheating and my machine is fine now вЂ“ but this is scary: I found a german company (smartmod) which offers a special repair service for the Mac Mini 2011 with Radeon HD 6300M video issues. Since cleaning from dust (8 hours ago) I had no more video issues so far although I had a permanent load on the GPU (Unity 3D) all of the time and even ran GPU benchmarks to provoke the issue. I've cleaned the Mini from dust with air (if you do that you should block the fan with one finger otherwise it may generate power which can damage the logicboard) and set higher base RPM for the fan with smcFanControl (3300 RPM). Some minutes later the it showed video issues again but I could do a regular shut down. After a short pause and a restart the GPU temperature was still way too high (80вЊ). Today the screen went pink with vertical stripes and my Mac Mini freezed. I had the same issues here (Mac Mini 2011 2.5GHz).