2011 Mac Mini w/Intel HD3000 video signal loss on HDMI and Thunderbolt?

I've had this issue since I first purchased my Mac Mini back in August. I also discussed this issue with a friend who just purchased a Mac Mini too, and he has the exact same problem. When connected to my monitor via HDMI, the screen will flicker to green, go out, then come back on. Sometimes I have to cycle my monitor input button before the screen returns. Also, if I connect to my monitor via DVI to Thunderbolt adapter, the screen flickers to "snow", then cuts out intermittently. It's the same problem either way. I'm connected to a new Asus VE276Q 27" monitor. I connect my Xbox and PC to the same display with no issues whatsoever. This is my first Mac product and I'm VERY frustrated with this problem. A firmware update was released a few months back regarding flickering when connected to an Apple Cinema display, but this had no effect on My machine. I've also verified the display refresh rate setting as well. Anyone else out there having this problem?

I recently got the 2.3 GHz Mac Mini. I tried hooking it up to a Viewsonic VX2035 with the enclosed HDMI DVI converter. I get the same results as you. Nothing on the monitor. It says no analog signal detected. Then the monitor goes into sleep mode. I hooked it up to a 32" Westhinghouse HDTV using a HDMI cable and it works fine.

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Video Support
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Video Card:
Radeon HD 6630M
VRAM Type:
GDDR5
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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
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Manufacturer: 0x859B
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Serial Number: 0x*****EF6
BANK 1/DIMM0:
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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
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EFI:
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Macintosh HD:
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File System: Journaled HFS+
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Content: Apple_HFS
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Content: Apple_Boot
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<Edited By Host>

Thank you for your help.
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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
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0xffffff82105a3aa0 : 0xffffff8025b2fe41
0xffffff82105a3b20 : 0xffffff8025c1a46e
0xffffff82105a3ce0 : 0xffffff8025c36683
0xffffff82105a3d00 : 0xffffff8026138ebb
0xffffff82105a3e20 : 0xffffff8025d6595f
0xffffff82105a3e60 : 0xffffff8025fedcb9
0xffffff82105a3f70 : 0xffffff8025fdba9e
0xffffff82105a3fb0 : 0xffffff8025c14dd7
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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
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com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.1
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
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Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6630M, AMD Radeon HD 6630M, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x859B, 0x43543130323436344246313630422E433136
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x859B, 0x43543130323436344246313630422E433136
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
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: APPLE SSD TS256C, 251 GB
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

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.

Nope, I don't have a "/Users/charon/Library/Mobile Documents" directory, let alone anything underneath it. Is that like an iCloud thing or something? I tend to avoid the Apple-supplied services when I can (I don't use iTunes either unless I can help it).
As an update, as of about two days later this problem seems to have solved itself. Possibly sleeping and waking did something to it (though that seems unlikely given how many times I rebooted), or else there was just some long-*** kernel process that finally worked itself out. But my system CPU is back down to normal and the cursor freezes are gone.
??? it is a mystery! ???

Need new disk for 2011 Mac Mini i5 with Radeon 6630M

I need a new disk for 2011 Mac Mini i5 with Radeon 6630M
Will this fit?
Western Digital 2.5 inch Scorpio Black 750GB 7200rpm SATA 16MB Internal Hard Drive WD7500BPKT
Will I need special screwdrivers or tools?

Wow, I worked on my MacMini after watching the video.
But BEWARE!
That OWC video misses a crucial step! (I emailed them)
My MacMini had a bit of "invisible" black tape holding the disk connector to the disk, very hard to see. When I pulled off the connector, it came apart !
That bit of tape must be something Apple added, or some manufacturers added, but it really messed me up. I had to send my MacMini off to be repaired, at a cost about $200 including parts and labour.

"Error 4 trying to transition CPU 1 to OFF" Mid 2011 Mac Mini

A brand new Mid 2011 MAc Mini running lion (10.7.2) won't reboot, resume from sleep and present the following report after a shutdown holding the power button.
Any tips?
Anonymous UUID:                    xxxxxxxx
Tue Nov 15 23:32:19 2011
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002ca350): "Error 4 trying to transition CPU 1 to OFF"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1699.24.8/osfmk/i386/acpi.c:179
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff809c263c70 : 0xffffff8000220702
0xffffff809c263cf0 : 0xffffff80002ca350
0xffffff809c263d50 : 0xffffff7f820fc4bf
0xffffff809c263d80 : 0xffffff7f820ff604
0xffffff809c263da0 : 0xffffff800064bba0
0xffffff809c263de0 : 0xffffff8000664b8b
0xffffff809c263e20 : 0xffffff800062b9ca
0xffffff809c263e70 : 0xffffff8000632db9
0xffffff809c263eb0 : 0xffffff8000628ac4
0xffffff809c263ef0 : 0xffffff8000628c6b
0xffffff809c263f30 : 0xffffff80006386e0
0xffffff809c263f70 : 0xffffff8000638584
0xffffff809c263fb0 : 0xffffff8000820057
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform(1.4)[9FC0A7ED-417F-32BB-B3DA-F796353FEBEE]@0 xffffff7f820f2000->0xffffff7f82149fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[8B3C2276-CD6A-355B-A5F7-A09E4499594B]@0xfffff f7f809a6000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.7)[6D54F06A-46B7-37FC-AF22-DE68DC18A1A3]@0xffff ff7f80862000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
11C74
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug 9 20:54:00 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 59275DFA-10C0-30B3-9E26-F7B5DFB1A432
System model name: Macmini5,2 (Mac-4BC72D62AD45599E)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 88406132648
last loaded kext at 51892080266: com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor     1.9.4d0 (addr 0xffffff7f81e65000, size 28672)
loaded kexts:
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp     4.1.6
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt     4.1.6
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB     4.1.6
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv     4.1.6
com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring     8.0
com.kext.HDAEnabler     1.0.0d1
org.netkas.FakeSMC     3.1.0
org.tgwbd.driver.NullCPUPowerManagement     1.0.0d2
es.osx86.driver.EvOreboot     1.0.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor     1.9.4d0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs     3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleTyMCEDriver     1.0.2d2
com.apple.driver.ApplePlatformEnabler     2.0.4d2
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch     66.3
com.apple.driver.AGPM     100.12.42
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC     1.59
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver     122
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver     2.1.3f7
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA     2.1.3f7
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient     3.5.9
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl     1.0.26
com.apple.kext.ATIFramebuffer     7.1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHD3000Graphics     7.1.2
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet     1.0.0d1
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X     7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver     1.2.1
com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl     3.0.16
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin     4.7.5d4
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC     1.5.3
com.apple.driver.MEDetect     1
com.apple.ATIRadeonX3000     7.1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController     312
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless     1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib     1.0.0d1
com.apple.BootCache     33
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage     2.0.1
com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC     1.1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub     4.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI     4.8.9
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331     512.20.18
com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet     3.0.8b2
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM     1.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort     2.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI     4.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons     1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI     4.4.5
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC     1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET     1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS     1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC     1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC     1.5
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall     3.2.30
com.apple.security.quarantine     1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement     167.0.0
com.apple.kext.MojoKDP     1
com.apple.kext.triggers     1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard     152.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard     152.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily     3.0.1
com.apple.driver.AppleAVBAudio     1.0.0d11
com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver     220.62.1
com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver     4.0.1f4
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver     2.1.3f7
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib     2.1.3f7
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController     1.0.10d0
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP     2.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio     2.8.2f5
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface     80.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController     2.1.3f7
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily     2.1.3f7
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager     4.0.1f4
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily     10.0.5
com.apple.iokit.IOAVBFamily     1.0.0d22
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily     1.8.3fc11
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib     1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert     1.0.3
com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl     3.0.16
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl     3.0.16
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI     1.0.10d0
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily     4.7.5d4
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC     3.1.1d8
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport     2.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltEDMSink     1.1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltEDMSource     1.1.3
com.apple.kext.ATI6000Controller     7.1.2
com.apple.kext.ATISupport     7.1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB     7.1.2
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily     2.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPOutAdapter     1.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPInAdapter     1.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPAdapterFamily     1.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltPCIDownAdapter     1.1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver     13
com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController     4.0.1f4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController     4.0.1f4
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily     4.0.1f4
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver     4.4.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite     3.9.0
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter     403
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltNHI     1.2.9
com.apple.iokit.IOThunderboltFamily     1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient     4.5.3
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily     4.4.5
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family     411.1
com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController     1.0.0d5
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily     2.0
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily     2.0.7
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime     1.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily     1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily     4.5.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily     1.1
com.apple.security.sandbox     165.3
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch     1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet     7
com.apple.driver.DiskImages     331
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily     1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore     28.18
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform     1.4
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily     2.6.7
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily     1.4
Impossível reunir informações sobre a configuração do sistema.Model: Macmini5,2, BootROM MM51.0077.B0E, 2 processors, Intel Core i5, 2.5 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.75f0
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6630M, AMD Radeon HD 6630M, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x80CE, 0x4D34373142353737334448302D4348392020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x80CE, 0x4D34373142353737334448302D4348392020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xE4), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.100.98.75.18)
Bluetooth: Version 4.0.1f4, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HTS547550A9E384, 500,11 GB
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfa100000 / 2
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000 / 3
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8281, 0xfa113000 / 5
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfd100000 / 2
USB Device: Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM), 0x045e (Microsoft Corporation), 0x075d, 0xfd130000 / 5
USB Device: USB2.0 Hub, 0x05e3 (Genesys Logic, Inc.), 0x0608, 0xfd120000 / 4
USB Device: iPhone, apple_vendor_id, 0x1297, 0xfd121000 / 7
USB Device: Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse® 1.00, 0x045e (Microsoft Corporation), 0x00e1, 0xfd124000 / 6
USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd110000 / 3

com.kext.HDAEnabler     1.0.0d1
org.netkas.FakeSMC     3.1.0
org.tgwbd.driver.NullCPUPowerManagement     1.0.0d2
es.osx86.driver.EvOreboot     1.0.3
Well, it seems that you have used Hackintosh to migrate or transfer your system from. These kexts are not present in original MacOs X.
On original Mac these kexts prevents it to enter sleep mode.
Solution is to remove these kexts from System/Library/Extensions or to do clean install.

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.

The next time you have the problem, note the exact times when it starts and ends: hour, minute, second.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ 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.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Scroll back in the log to the time you noted above. Post any messages timestamped during that interval – the text, please, not a screenshot.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into a message.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out by search-and-replace in a text editor before posting.

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This question concerns the Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter described at the below link:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB572Z/A
When running Windows 7 via Boot Camp on a 2011 Mac Mini, can the above adapter be used with a VGA monitor?

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