30" Apple Cinema HD Display: NOT Detected, NOT Connected.

I have used my 17" MacBook Pro happily since March 2007. Recently, I decided to hook up to 30" Apple Cinema HD Display. It was delivered 14th Dec 2009 complete with Apple Wireless Keyboard and Magic Mouse.
All setup and worked perfectly.
Monday 4th Jan 2010, when I connected and booted the MBP from shutdown, the ACD would not work:
(1) The tiny white power indicator glows steady
(2) 'Detect Displays' on both the Menu Bar and System Prefs pane (of the MBP) do nothing
(3) 'Display Connector' Status on System Profiler says 'No Display Connected'
(4) Spent the whole of last week trouble shooting: googled & tried all (PRAM & SMC resets, restarts, reconnects, reboots, etc). Read all on this forum way back to 2006 postings. No luck.
(5) Out of desperation, I went and purchased the latest Mac Mini 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo preinstalled OS 10.6 with Dual Link DVI adapter out of the box. It fires the ACD screen alright but offers maximum of only 1280 x 800 resolution. Its System Profiler also reports 'No Display Connected', always, although occasionally the 'Options' tab will show up on the Display pane in System Prefs. Even after running 'Software Update' completely to 10.6.2.
What else may do? I am 1,000s of Km from the nearest Apple care/technical/repair shop & Ebay that shipped it!

MBP, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jan 11, 2010 12:05 AM

21 replies

webbadger Author

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Jan 19, 2010 10:03 PM in response to BSteely

That figures. Now that you've put it like that, I shall leave with it (1 MBP still mint, Mini+30"@1280x800res) for as long as it may take. I look forward to yet a day I'll be too happy to come back to the thread and report positive. Till then, I remain constantly connected (even by my mobile), so I'll be sure to instantly view any further thoughts on this.
Your attention, Sir, has been noble. Best regards.

safetech

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Feb 5, 2010 6:59 PM in response to webbadger

my five cents, it worked for me......energy saver... schedule and set it to two or three minutes ahead of your time, put the computer to sleep, wait, past the time it will NOT wake up by itself, hit any key.... that's it, it blinks, blue screens and bingo! got picture back, after shut down I'll post again....

safetech

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Feb 5, 2010 10:25 PM in response to safetech

too good to be true...... got the same problem again......

safetech

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Feb 7, 2010 11:01 AM in response to safetech

the problem is coming back but still, the best solution is to use the scheduled wake up (which doesn't work), it sure beats not using it by hundreds if not thousands of clicks on detect display if I don't....
this is the second serious problem I run into ..... the other is I can't burn DVDs, a common problem with many other Mac users and it seems without a solution either.........the infamous MATSHITA drive, will not recognize any DVD disk.... what's going on Apple?, this two problems started right after updating the OS...... the DVD problem started about a year ago and I still don't see a solution.....

safetech

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Feb 15, 2010 9:24 PM in response to webbadger

today after I installed an ILife update, it seems everything is back to normal? rebooted several times, it took long time the first two, the third was normal and after that everything is back to normal, I can shut down or sleep etc from the dislay again.....as for the DVD burning issue we'll see.....

safetech

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Feb 20, 2010 12:04 PM in response to webbadger

***????? what's going on APPLE, you seem to nor give a **** about your customers???????????
the problem is back, it worked fine for one day and now the same bs again..........are you going to fix this ****............ at this point I'm mad as ****, I use the computer/display TO WORK......should I go back and try WINDOWS 7, you are leaving me no option..........

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