How do I get a Mini DisplayPort adapter and HDMI connection working for my Older MacBook Pro?

I bought a Belkin Mini DisplayPort adapter and attempted to hook it up on two different tvs using two different HDMI cords. I've always received a "no signal" message. I haven't even been able to get my desktop to appear. My display settings doesn't include a mirroring option and I only have the option to use my computer as a sound output. I've called apple support and I went to geek squad. Is it just impossible for older MacBooks?? I have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and all of the forums I've read say that video should work at least. I switched out my adapter for a rocket fish one and still no luck. The geek squad employee couldn't get it to work on either adapters. Please Help!

I upgraded my OS to Mountain Lion and now it works perfectly. However, I'm getting random green and black splotches on my screen when I'm not using it with the TV.

Similar Messages

How do I get the Airplay Icon to show on the System Preferences of my MacBook Pro?

How do I get the Airplay Icon to show on the System Preferences of my MacBook Pro? I want to be able to connect to my AppleTV.

I looked at that already. I've done everything it says: check to make sure wireless is working, make sure airplay is enabled, make sure device and apple tv are on the same network blah blah. The icon just isn't there. Unless I skipped a step. AirPlay works when I use it in the music app and in the video app, I jus can't get mirroring to work. I was looking at some other threads and mirroring doesn't seem to be working for a lot of people. Maybe I jus have to wait for an update =\

How do I get my plug ins (Nik and Topaz) to work on Photoshop Creative Cloud? [was:Plug ins?]

How do I get my plug ins (Nik and Topaz) to work on Photoshop Creative Cloud?

Contact the makers of your third party plugins and see if they have updates that work correctly with Photoshop CC 2014.
Also, make sure you ran the installers for the plugins instead of just copying them, since you may be missing necessary support files for the plugins.

How can i get iphoto on my IPAD if i already have it on my macbook pro

how can i get iphoto on my IPAD if i already have it on my macbook pro?

See this page, if your iPad qualifies for a free download: Free Apple apps for iOS 7 compatible devices
iPhoto on the iPad and iPhoto on the Mac are completely different programs. The Mac version cannot run on the iPad, because the operating systems and the processors are different. Don't expect, that iPhoto on the iPad will be able to do the same things as your iPhoto for Mac, pr that you can keep the two iPhoto libraries in sync.
Se this help page for a description, what iPhoto on the iPad can do: http://help.apple.com/iphoto/ipad/2.0/

How can i get difference in base plan and actual/current plan for a project

Hi PS Experts,
How can i get difference in base plan and actual plan .
For example-
Project1 is created for 10 days (start and end date difference).
Now in between -project is extended/changed for 12 days .
What is the way to get 2 days as a difference in base plan and current plan.
Thanks
Suraj prakash

Hi Suraj,
You can follow a convention that -
(1) Forecast Start/Finish dates: Used only for Primary planning, once initial planning is done you should not change these dates.
Now, you will copy the same dates in Basic Start/Finish dates also.
(2) Basic Start/Finish dates: Whatever changes are done after the initial planning, you will make the changes only in Basic Start/Finish dates.
So, in Project Planning board, if you enable Forecast and Basic dates with different color coding, you can clearly see the variation in the Project schedule.
Hope this helps.

HT201177 no audio when using a mini display port to HDMI cable to TV on my Macbook pro

no audio when using a mini display port to HDMI cable to TV on my Macbook pro. can only see the video

I keep saying this over and over, in the hope that people who do a search will find it. Apple cannot possibly test for or be reponsible for the bazillion combinations of adapter, cables, and TV's out there. The only monitors that are 100% guaranteed to work with the MacBook Pro are the Cinema Displays and Thunderbolt Displays, because, they're made by Apple. They're expensive, but they work perfectly.
My guess is that you bought a cheap MDP to HDMI cable, or have a defective one. From my reading of these boards over the past few months, cheap cables have a high failure rate. And the regular priced ones have only a slightly less of one. Try a new one. Make sure you do not damage the Thunderbolt port.

How do I get to the CC Plans page on Adobe's website on my MacBook Pro?

I am working on the newest MacBook Pro and cannot get to the Adobe Creative Cloud plan page and need to to be able to download my 30 trail of Illustrator. How can I do this without getting the blank white page on the Adobe website while still on my MacBook Pro? I have a graphic design emergency and need to know how to do this ASAP. Please and thank you!

Boonelr have you utilized the steps listed in Creative Cloud Help | Install, update, or uninstall apps to install Adobe Illustrator CC 2014?

How do i get the same desktop picture on my external monitor, as on my macbook pro, and get it to stay that way when unplugged?

Everytime I use an external monitor with my macbook pro the desktop picture always changes to the same one as on my external hard drive...how do i get the external monitor to show the same picture as my macbook pro and keep it that way?

Did you download the PC version? There is no DOS in OSX.
Look for the Mac version of AutoCAD.

How do i get a copy of IDVD and will it work with final cut pro x.

I have a new powerbook. I've purchased final cut pro x because express is no longer available. My Mac didn't come with iDVD and I can't find a suitable dvd authoring tool. Please... some suggestions for DVD authoring or how to get a copy of iDVD and will it even work with FCPx.

Call Apple they will sent out iDVD at no charge. (There are no realistic substitutes for iDVD.)
408-996-1010
800-692-7753
If you are still within your 15 day return period, nicely explain that you may return the computer without iDVD. That usually does the trick. You MUST speak to a senior advisor to get a free copy. The first tier people cannot do it.
If that doesn't work you can purchase iLife 11 (includes iDVD) on disk.
IDVD is a wonderful piece of software and well worth the low cost of $40.
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U

How do I get capslock, shift, control, option, and command to work normal?

I did a clean install of Snow Leopard onto a new hard drive and restored the rest of my machine from a Time Machine backup.
The behavior of capslock, shift, control, option, and command have changed and are freaking driving me nuts.
Every time I hit shift/control/option/command an image of the key flashes up on the top right of my screen. I want this to stop and go back to a normal keyboard.
Also, the caps lock is no longer doing sane basic behavior like "Tap once for on, then again for off" like every other 3 billion keyboards on the planet. Now its doing this insane thing where I have to double tap it to turn it on, then again to turn it off, but sometimes it doesn't go off.
How do I get the keyboard in 10.6 to just simply act normal again?

Sounds as if you have Sticky keys turned on.
Turn of via System Prefs > Universal access > Keyboard
You can also press the shift key 5 times to turn Sticky Keys on or off.
Check the rest in System Prefs > Keyboard > Keyboard > Modifier keys.
S.

How do I get the albums created on my iPhone5 to show up on my Macbook Pro in iPhoto?

Have an album I created on my iPhone5 that I want to be able to see all those photos on my MacBook Pro in iPhoto. But when I have my iPhone connected (wirelessly) to iTunes, and iPhoto open, I can't for the life of me figure out how to seamlessly merge the iPhone album so I can have easy access in iPhoto. I can't find photo stream anywhere in iPhoto (it's not showing up on the side menu bar, have already looked). Any other suggestions? I would think this should be an easy fix, but can't for the life of me figure it out.
Thanks for the help

How are you "creating the album" on the iPhone 5?
As to PhotoStream that feature is not supported in OS X 10.6.8 - see this page for requirements - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
LN

How to make TRIM in 10.6.8 work for Aug 2009 macbook pro with 120 GB SSD?

Just installed 10.6.8 on a August 2009 Macbook Pro with 120 GB SSD (which is Apple installed memory), and TRIM is not enabled. When I installed 10.6.8 on an August 2010 Macbook Pro with 500 GB SSD (Apple installed), the TRIM became enabled without me doing anything else. Is there some procedure I should use to enable TRIM on the August 2009 unit? Thank you for your advice. Carl

but there's no proof that such hacking is either safe or beneficial to performance
Not my take on this at all. My Air for example struggled with write fatigue something chronic - after filling it up the drive performance was down to about 40% on benchmarking, and in the real world felt a lot slower than it was. Enabling TRIM and then erasing free-space resulted in it benchmarking back to where it was at new, and the real performance being back to how I remembered it.
The Sandforce controller enabled Vertex 2E - I don't know if it's made a world of difference to that as I don't remember that unit suffering with write fatigue particularly.
The Crucial M225 struggled with write fatigue, and again TRIM sorted it out - and still has.
All the above perf tests/comparisons etc. are all on my blog if you want to have a look see.

Hi i have a macbook pro 15 intel late 2011 os lion how do i get to play windows games on it?, hi i have a macbook pro 15 intel late 2011 os lion how do i get to play windows games on it?

i lve windows games, i wanna play gta san andreas and cod mw3 mw1 mw2.there are games on the store but can i get them for free by anyway like torrents etc.please help

salman mac 15 wrote:
on boot camp what kind of upgrades?
You'll have to buy a Windows 7 disk and use BootCamp
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
i have a amd raedon 675m 512mb graphic card( not sure abt the name)
Good card for a Mac, but there are far better one's on Windows, also you can't upgrade it.
3D games need newer cards every couple of years or even sooner to keep up with good games and competition online
Better to buy a Windows machine than try fitting Windows on a Mac.

Trying to embed a wmv video in website to work with Firefox. Video works but the controls appear then disappear. How can I get the cotnrols to show and stay. Works in all other browsers.

Here's the code I used:
<pre><nowiki><p class="bodytext"><OBJECT id='mediaPlayer' width="320" height="240" class="imageright"
classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95'
codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/ mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'
standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...' type='application/x-oleobject'>
<param name='fileName' value="video.wmv">
<param name='animationatStart' value='true'>
<param name='transparentatStart' value='true'>
<param name='autoStart' value='true'>
<param name='ShowControls' value='true'>
<param name='ShowDisplay' value='false'>
<param name='ShowStatusBar' value='false'>
<param name='loop' value='false'>
<EMBED type='application/x-mplayer2'
pluginspage='http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/'
id='mediaPlayer' name='mediaPlayer' displaysize='4' autosize='1'
bgcolor='black' ShowControls='true' showtracker='1'
ShowDisplay='1' showstatusbar='1' videoborder3d='0' width="320" height="240"
src="video.wmv" autostart='1' designtimesp='5311' loop='0'>
</EMBED></nowiki></pre>
Also tried showcontrols=1

I had this exact problem too. Unlike IE, firefox wasn't scaling the video to fit into the height and width I defined. As a result the controls were disappearing off the bottom.
I found that by making the height of the window 50px larger than the videos native height, the controls were displayed permenantly. Since the other browsers scale the video to fit the window, this solution works for them all.

Getting a Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter & Monitor to Work with an Xserve

First let me say that I'm very new to Xserve's and OS X Server and any help is greatly appreciated.
I have an Xserve with a connected Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter and a confirmed working VGA monitor. There is also a keyboard and mouse plugged into the front USB port of the Xserve. The internal SSD has been formatted clean.
I've been trying to boot up from the optical drive on the Xserve using the 10.6 DVD. I use the front panel/system identifier button to boot up and I make sure enclosure lock is unlocked. Each time I try to boot up, the monitor stays off and the DVD is spit out.
I eventually got the DVD to stay in, and the screen showed the grey screen with black apple and the spinning black circle on the bottom. However, after a few minutes the screen turned orange in color. Using Screen Sharing, it looked fine. I tried a second VGA monitor, but that still didn't do it.
So with the DVD still in, I stay connected via Screen Sharing and begin the installation process remotely, thinking Snow Leopard will recognize the monitor eventually. Well, 10.6 is now fully installed, but still no working monitor.
I then decided to try the Mini DisplayPort to VGA Firmware Update. I download and run the installer, but it tells me, "The Updater could not find a Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter to update."
How can I possibly get this monitor working?
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: nappy

Just ran in to this myself -- Nehalem Xserve running 10.6.2 Server with an MiniDisplayPort to VGA adapter connected to an Avocent Switchview 1000 KVM. Took the server offline to install RAM and after rebooting, no video. Oddly enough, the KVM's LEDs showed a display connected but Apple System Profiler showed no adapters connected to the video card. Nothing seemingly worked -- rebooting, shutdown/restart, and/or hot-plugging the adapter made no difference. I also tried a second MiniDisplayPort adapter to no avail.
Note that the MiniDisplayPort to VGA Firmware update had already been applied to BOTH adapters prior to this issue appearing.
What restored video output on our system: reboot from the Snow Leopard Server install media, video reappears over the adapter, and after that I can reboot from the SSD boot drive running 10.6.2 Server with video output working over the MiniDisplayPort to VGA adapter.

How do I get a Mini DisplayPort adapter and HDMI connection working for my Older MacBook Pro?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for