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Brunoximus Author

Level 1

0 points

Short interference (snow like) Mac Mini i7 (Late 2012)

My brand new Mac Mini has a strange error which i have never seen on any computer. At rare intervals my monitor shows a short (1 sec) interference. During this brief moment my apple cinema display shows 'multi colored snow'. It looks like the 'snow-interference' on old school tv's, but these speckles are in black, white AND red, green & blue.

I've got a cinema display connected through the provided Apple HDMI-DVI converter. The display itself never showed any interference on my old mac mini.

Does anyone experiences the same problem?

or.. does anyone has a clue what's happening here?

Cheers,

Bruno

Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Mac Mini 2,3 Ghz I7 (Late 2012)

Posted on Oct 27, 2012 4:36 AM

78 replies

Evansgo

Level 1

8 points

Jan 1, 2013 11:21 PM in response to Kelly Crossley

I'd agree that you will never see a load of people saying its fixed, all you can go by is a lack of people going its broke, and I'd not base anything on two people, it could be pretty much anything causing their problem.

For what its worth, I was seeing this problem on my dual Dell DV setup every couple of days, but since the 11th Dec when I applied the patch, not a single reocurrence.

If you search heard enough for problems then you'll probably find a few in any device like this, but apart from that one issue I've had no problems at all with the mac mini and I have all sorts of stuff hanging off mine.

They have a good return policy, just go get one and you'll be fine. 🙂

Jan 1, 2013 11:42 PM in response to Evansgo

The firmware fix resolved it on my machine too. Searching other support forums like MacRumors, you will see that it has resolved it for everyone posting there. That thread was growing a page or two a day until the firmware fix was released. Now it's pretty much dead.

Jan 2, 2013 1:18 AM in response to Kelly Crossley

Kelly Crossley wrote:

Thanks Philip. That helps a lot. Are you using two DVI monitors? If so, what adapters are you using?

Yes both monitors have DVI inputs, I am using the Aple HDMI-to-DVI that came with the MacMini and an Apple MDP-to-DVI.

Phil

Short interference (snow like) Mac Mini i7 (Late 2012)