2011 Mac Mini clicking sound

Hi all, I just bought a 2.5 i5 mac mini yesterday with 5400rpm hardrive and I love it but every 20 seconds or so theres a faint clicking sound that comes from it. Is this normal? Thanks

I would take it back to Apple and let them take a look at it.

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I'm having problems installing Windows 8 on my 2011 Mac Mini.
Obviously I've gone through the BootCamp Assistant, partitioned my drive and then rebooted and started the Windows 8 install process. I can go through the initial bits Region, entering my product key but when I go to choose the partition where I want to install Windows 8 there is a yellow triangle with the 'Windows cannot be installed to this volume' message when the BOOTCAMP partition is highlighted. When I click more info I get the following pop up messages:
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Windows cannot be installed to this disk - This computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disks controller is enabled in the computers BIOS system.
Any Ideas as to why I cannot proceed with the install or why Windows 8 is not accepting the prepared partition.
The installed HDD is a Toshiba MK5065GSXF Revision GV108B (Apple original)
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John

Sounds like you have another device connected which is using GPT/GUID partition and that is stopping you.
For some it means removing or disconnecting a drive or external device.
This has existed since Vista days.
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How much Ram can I install in a mid 2011 mac mini, 2.3Ghz?

I have a mid 2011 mac mini with a 2.3 Ghz processor and the factory installed 2GB of ram. I would like to increase my ram but I am confused about the amount it can handle. everywhere i look on the internet it says it can handle up to 8GB however i spoke with apple care on the phone and they said it can handle up to 16GB. So which is it?
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2011 Mac Mini, 10.8.3, SSD - System CPU at constant 10%, frequent 0.5 sec cursor freezes

Hi. I have a Mid-2011 Mac Mini with 8GB of RAM. I have an SSD installed in it as the primary drive, along with another internal 2TB drive and an external USB 2TB drive for media. This machine is mostly used as a media server and player. It's been running Mountain Lion since I bought it (refurb) last year. I upgraded to 10.8.3 as soon as that came out, and was running for a while without any problems. This evening, though, I started to notice some problems.
The main issue is that the CPU (well, one core) seems to be constantly under load. Under Activity Monitor I'm watching the system load (but not user load) hover between about 8% and 12%, all of the time. But looking at the program list, I don't see anything taking up more than about 2% of CPU, and that is taken up by Activity Monitor itself.
The annoying way that this manifests itself in the UI is that if I'm just randomly moving the cursor around in a circle, I can watch it periodically hang and freeze for about half of a second every 3-4 seconds or so. Meanwhile, everything else on the system also seems to freeze up for about half a second at the same time, which makes watching Netflix extremely irritating. (With Netflix the sound plays as normal, but the video freezes briefly every few seconds - I verified this in both Firefox and Chrome so I doubt it's a browser thing.)
I've already tried some troubleshooting steps myself. (None of this has worked yet.)
I saw a lot of messages in console about "mdworker deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd", which googling around for led me to this page; per the instructions there I booted into safe mode, waited a bit and rebooted, and now I don't see those messages any more. (I didn't mess with the sandbox.sb file, about which, really? Apple implemented this in Scheme or something?) Just to be on the safe side, though, I disabled Spotlight indexing with sudo mdutil -a -i off.
I opened Disk Util and ran a verify on all three disks, no errors. I found one or two permissions that needed repairing on the startup SSD and repaired them. The problem persisted. I also cleared out my caches with Maintenance while I was at it.
As a side note, even when I rebooted in safe mode, I was still seeing the same behavior (periodic half-second mouse freezes, system CPU averaging a constant 10% or so in Activity Monitor).
I also spent some time reading this other thread which looked like it had some very useful advice (unlike that poster, though, my Spotlight processes aren't crashing). So I went ahead and followed Linc Davis's first set of instructions in that thread. Here's what I've got for steps 1 and 2.
1. Activity monitor
Highest-CPU process is Activity Monitor at about 1-2% CPU
CPU: User 1%, system ~10%, idle ~90%
System memory: Page outs 0, swap used 0 bytes
Disk activity: Reads in/sec 0, Writes out/sec 0 (these infrequently spike up to about 40 or 50 max)
2. System log
I put up a gist for this here. It's my last 50 messages or so, probably some are coming from the most recent reboot. I can see the "IOHIDSystem cursor update overdue. Resending" messages which I presume are linked to my cursor freezes, but nothing else looks obviously suspicious to me. The stuff about "menucracker" is down to MenuMeters; I uninstalled it and rebooted at one point just to check, but it didn't seem to make a difference so I reinstalled it.
As far as kexts go, the only one I had that wasn't Apple was SoundFlower. I actually need that one, I use it to stream files from Plex, but I went ahead and uninstalled it anyways, and it didn't make a difference. My launchd lists start up sickbeard, sabnzbd, and plex, but I've manually quit all of those and the problem persists, so I highly douby any of them are to blame.
Any advice greatly appreciated. Is there a better way that I can see what exactly is causing the high system CPU load, like can I list processes by number of kernel calls or something? I did try top and ps but I didn't see anything obviously different from Activity Monitor in their output.

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??? it is a mystery! ???

My 2011 mac mini screen is black and has an "out of range" message

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Hi all
Been using my 2011 Mac Mini since October 2011 with no issues at all. upgraded the Ram (2 x 8 =16gb crucial ddr3 1333 sodimm 204) which worked flaulessly since early 2012.
last week while workign on some ram intensive stuff my mac froze and made some funky sounds (kinda like C3PO beat boxing) and then would not reboot and beeped at me 3 times. I looked that beep up and it indicated a ram issue. I took out the first stick (closest to the twisty lid) and the mac boots indicating an issue with the bank i guess not the ram.
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Harry

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Mid 2011 Mac MIni Freezing with OSX 10.8.2

My Mid 2011 Mac Mini running OS X 10.8.2 has been Freezing (The baloon spins often) over random things. Is there a scan I can do to check problems. This is my first experience with a Mac and thought they weren't supposed to freeze. I run a few programs at a time but I do have 8g of ram with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5.

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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB572Z/A
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Since the mid-2011 Mac Mini I have has either HDMI or Thunderbolt to choose from, plus I've just bought an external TB storage system, I think I'd need to connect the monitor to the second TB port on the external TB storage and hope that the external storage would pass the DisplayPort signals along.
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from
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5219#23

Using a HDMI Only Monitor with 2011 Mac Mini i5 2.3

Hi, Just Wondering if anyone has experience with this...
I have searched High and low and cannot work out if the issues with this are fixed or still happening to people.
I am looking a connecting the 2011 Mac Mini with HDMI port directly to HDMI port of a third party monitor but the ones Iam interested in (and are in my price range!) seem to have only HDMI and sometimes VGA also. If I connect the cable directly from the mac to the monitor are there issues with resolutions, wake from sleep, colours being bad/off etc? Is it recommended to only use DVI from the 2011 Mac Mini?
Just need to check this before buying a new monitor and I cant seem to find the answers anywhere so any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Steve

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I have a mid 2011 mac mini i7. Below are the specs on memory, hardware, and solid state. I also have Yosemite installed - everything is current. version 10.10.2
I've had 8gb installed since I bought it. And I just purchased 2 sticks of Crucial RAM 8gbx2.
Everything is fine but when I go to bed and wake in the morning, the system will not wake-up. I have fresh batteries in the keyboard and mouse. The system mini is warm on top - not cold or hot. So it does not seem asleep. I have pressed the button on the mac mini once and thought it was alseep...nothing happens. I just can't get it back up after it seems asleep at night.
The only way I can get the system going again is pulling the power plug. This has happened each night since installing the RAM. Oh, I also have held the power button down for 5 seconds trying to do a hard reset. Nothing
I was really excited to get the system up and running with 16gb but hate trouble. I am not a tech expert....
I have not changed any settings. And if it was asleep, why isn't it waking?
Does anyone have any ideas here?
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: Macmini5,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.7 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version: MM51.0077.B10
SMC Version (system): 1.75f0
Serial Number (system): C0*******JD3
Hardware UUID: *******
Memory Slots:
ECC: Disabled
Upgradeable Memory: Yes
BANK 0/DIMM0:
Size: 8 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1600 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x859B
Part Number: 0x43543130323436344246313630422E433136
Serial Number: 0x*****EF6
BANK 1/DIMM0:
Size: 8 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1600 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x859B
Part Number: 0x43543130323436344246313630422E433136
Serial Number: 0x*****F0B
ntel 6 Series Chipset:
Vendor: Intel
Product: 6 Series Chipset
Link Speed: 6 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Physical Interconnect: SATA
Description: AHCI Version 1.30 Supported
APPLE SSD TS256C:
Capacity: 251 GB (251,000,193,024 bytes)
Model: APPLE SSD TS256C
Revision: CJAA0202
Serial Number:         41CA40VIK6LK
Native Command Queuing: No
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Medium Type: Solid State
TRIM Support: Yes
Bay Name: Lower
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
EFI:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s1
Content: EFI
Volume UUID: BDC1974F-6B8C-3DAE-9DB2-3AA3C17BF506
Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 250.14 GB (250,140,434,432 bytes)
Available: 86.32 GB (86,323,249,152 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /
Content: Apple_HFS
Volume UUID: A165C2B8-7E7F-3F83-835B-53C6D2695F1B
Recovery HD:
Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s3
Content: Apple_Boot
Volume UUID: 80D578DD-6F7D-318B-8FCD-B6E653BB72F5
<Edited By Host>

Thank you for your help.
I did both resets you offer in the link above and then I went to bed last night.
In the morning, when I hit the keyboard, it paused and came to light....and said there was a problem and it automatically reset and re-booted from a blank screen (not main screen). This was the screen after the reboot. The full error info is listed below the image.
Anonymous UUID:       A8BF7A0B-8CBE-1965-232C-ECB1E6FB72EF
Mon Feb 16 09:40:46 2015
*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8025c1a46e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff8026138ebb, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000890, CR3: 0x0000000008f59010, CR4: 0x00000000000626e0
RAX: 0x0000000000000004, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0xffffff80441dc000
RSP: 0xffffff82105a3df0, RBP: 0xffffff82105a3e20, RSI: 0xffffff804581aa50, RDI: 0xffffff82105a3f30
R8: 0x0000000000000032, R9: 0x0000000000000001, R10: 0x0000000000000000, R11: 0x000003571b6dfe80
R12: 0x0000000000000001, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0x0000000000000001, R15: 0xffffff804581aa50
RFL: 0x0000000000010286, RIP: 0xffffff8026138ebb, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000000
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000890, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x2
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff82105a3aa0 : 0xffffff8025b2fe41
0xffffff82105a3b20 : 0xffffff8025c1a46e
0xffffff82105a3ce0 : 0xffffff8025c36683
0xffffff82105a3d00 : 0xffffff8026138ebb
0xffffff82105a3e20 : 0xffffff8025d6595f
0xffffff82105a3e60 : 0xffffff8025fedcb9
0xffffff82105a3f70 : 0xffffff8025fdba9e
0xffffff82105a3fb0 : 0xffffff8025c14dd7
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: syslogd
Mac OS version:
14C109
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 14.1.0: Mon Dec 22 23:10:38 PST 2014; root:xnu-2782.10.72~2/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: DCF5C2D5-16AE-37F5-B2BE-ED127048DFF5
Kernel slide:     0x0000000025800000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8025a00000
__HIB text base: 0xffffff8025900000
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System uptime in nanoseconds: 3672658333040
last loaded kext at 246104407160: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.10 (addr 0xffffff7fa8dea000, size 69632)
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AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xE4), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.24)
Bluetooth: Version 4.3.2f6 15235, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
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USB Device: Hub
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: IR Receiver
Thunderbolt Bus: Mac mini, Apple Inc., 22.2

Win 7 Activation in Boot Camp on Mid-2011 Mac Mini?

I bought my wife a new Mid-2011 Mac Mini (2.3 GHz) to replace her older 1.66 GHz Mac Mini. After running all the Apple updates and getting the new Lion Mini set up the way she likes, I downloaded Windows Support software, ran Windows Easy Transfer on the old Mac Mini Win 7, and then ran Boot Camp on the new Lion Mini in preparation to installing Windows 7.
Then I installed Win 7, installed all the Windows updates and had a perfectly fine installation of Windows 7 running. Until I tried to activate Win 7 online. I got the message that I had entered an invalid Product Key. So I entered the Product Key again, but I kept getting the message that the Product Key wasn't correct and that I needed to buy another one.
This stunned me, as I had used the same product key to install Win 7 on my wife's old Mac Mini, which is now out of service. After Googling around for hints, I discovered something that I had missed: In Boot Camp 4.01 in Lion 10.7, a full-install retail version of Win 7 is needed. Aha! I had used the Upgrade version of Win 7 (Family Pack) I bought in late 2009 from Microsoft (I have 3 valid full-install Win XP and Vista licenses). I used the MS-approved double-install method to install Win 7 on the new Mac Mini to avoid the install-then-upgrade waste of time, not even knowing I couldn't install XP or Vista in a Boot Camp 4.01 partition.
I actually have two Win 7 Family Packs, bought in late-2009, and I have 6 valid full-install XP and Vista licenses/discs. Only 4 of those Win 7 installs were actively being used until yesterday, although all 6 have been activated in the past.
So here are my questions: Is the Lion Boot Camp 4.01 requirement of a full-install Win 7 disk causing the activation problem, or do I need to call Microsoft for a manual activation? Will Microsoft refuse to activate a copy of Win 7 Upgrade on my brand-new Lion Mac Mini even if I can provide proof of legal Product Keys?
Thanks for any help, insight, tips. What a complicated mess progress can be!

Solved the problem by using the Windows automated activation via phone. It took me several tries before I gave the right answer about how many computers had been activated with that particular Windows 7 Upgrade family pack Product Key. The magic answer was/is "one", even though I know for a fact that two computers in my household were actively using that Product Key. Go figure.
Anyway, the good news is that you *can* use a Windows 7 Upgrade disk to install Win 7 in Boot Camp 4.01 in Lion on a mid-2011 Mac Mini, despite what Apple says. I'm going to guess that Apple is trying to steer its customers away from just the sort of thing I've gone through. Further good news is that Microsoft doesn't care about the Mac side of the equation at all, just that you can satisfy their phonebot with the right answers. :^)
Thank God Apple not only doesn't use activation for its OS, but also in fact is headed willy nilly in the opposite direction with Lion.

Mid-2011 Mac Mini won't output 2560 x 1600 to my Dell U3014

Hi,
I recently purchased a Dell U3014 30" monitor. I've been using it with my PC via Dual-Link DVI without a hitch.
I decided to plug my mid-2011 Mac Mini into it using a MiniDisplayPort-to-DisplayPort cable. My mac recognises the monitor, but won't output at 2560 x 1600, the monitor says it isn't receiving a signal.
If I change the display settings to 1080p the monitor comes to life.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

The specs are:
Video Card:
Radeon HD 6630M
VRAM Type:
GDDR5
Details:
This model has an AMD Radeon HD 6630M graphics processor with 256 MB of dedicated GDDR5 memory. Also see: What type of video system is provided by the Aluminum Mac mini models? Which are integrated and which are dedicated? Can the video be upgraded?
Standard VRAM:
256 MB
Maximum VRAM:
256 MB
Display Support:
Three Displays
Resolution Support:
1920x1200*
2nd Display Support:
Dual/Mirroring*
2nd Max. Resolution:
2560x1600 (x2)*
Details:
*This model simultaneously supports 1920x1200 on an HDMI or a DVI display (using the included HDMI-to-DVI adapter) and2560x1600 on two Thunderbolt or Mini DisplayPort displays or even a VGA display (with an optional Mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter, which is compatible with the Thunderbolt port).
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i5-2.5-mid-20 11-specs.html

Performance on a 2011 Mac Mini: Mountain Lion Vs. Lion Server

I have a 2011 Mac Mini running 10.7 server (i7, 8Gb RAB, Dual 500 GB 7200 rpm drives). I use the Mini exclusively as a DAW and am running Logic Express 9 with Native Instrument and Toontrack VST's. I also use a Presonus Firewire mixer.
I am planning my upgrade to 10.8 while I wait for all my VST's to become fully compatible (with 10.8), I wanted know if Mountain Lion will bring significant performance improvements or if am I better off staying with 10.7 Server ?

Let me ask the question again, why are you planning to upgrade to 10.8? What does 10.8 do that 10.7 does not?
Honestly, the first prinicple of a working computer is - if it is stable and you are productive with it, don't change it unless you know why the change is required.
If 10.8 does something that you really need, jump on it. But, before you do, make a full working clone of your 10.7 system disk. This is your insurance if things go south in the upgrade process or your programs are not fully compatible. You can get back to your working system in an hour or so.
Good luck,
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