HT1338 Mac Mini Intel Core DUO running OSX 10.6.8. Build 10K549

I've tried to install updates 4 or 5 times, and when it goes through the reboot I get an "Unknown" install error, and none of the updates install.
I am definitely behind on Updates. Please Advise!

What updates?

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I purchased an "Open box" Mac mini Intel Core Duo, 1.66Ghz, 2G ram, 80G HD and SD a few days ago from Fry's.
It runs beautifully except the fan is very loud compared to any Mac my family has ever had. It is so loud that we were thinking of putting it under the desk.
The fan runs constantly, and I mean all the time, at a high speed. You can really feel the air coming out the exhaust vents. The case is always cool to the touch as is the exhaust air.
My aunt bought a similar Mac mini (But only 512Mb ram) the same day. Her's is very quiet. The case feels just slightly warm, not unlike other Mac mini's I've seen.
Should my Mac mini's fan be running this way?
Thanks,
llulua
BTW: The "open box" was sealed with a Fry's label and it said that this had a new warranty. Yet, checking the serial number, it said that it had about 260 days left. I guess Fry's is backing it?
Also, someone told me that perhaps the main wire from the fan to the logic board is disconnected.
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Since you have 2 gigs of memory, my thoughts are that when the party (Fry's or the origianl purchaser) upgraded the memory, they neglected to reattach the wire at the front of the Mini under the IR receptor at the right front corner that regulates the fan speed. This wire must be unattached in order to upgrade the memory, and is probably why the original person brought it back, because of the fan noise resulting from failing to reattach the wire. If that wire is left unattached, the fan runs continually at high speed to protect the CPU and system in general. If you do not want to use a putty knife to open the Mini, take it back to Fry's and ask someone who is Mac savvy to open it and reattach the small plastic receptacle at the end of the wire into its socket at the right front of the machine. When I go to Fry's, I am always concerned because the employees allow people to pry keys off of the Apple notebooks, so don't expect that their employees to know or care about anything Mac.
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Mac Mini Intel Core Duo's did not ship until 2006 which seems plenty of time for Apple to announce 'we have a problem' and what their recommended solution.
Why would they do that ? I mean, they don't have a problem. The inventors of DualDisc made a type of disc that won't play in all players, and Apple can't really do anything about it. Superdrives are not made by Apple, it's just Apple's name for a DVD burner; the Superdrives that are found in various Macs come from several different manufacturers, and although Apple probably ensures that the Superdrive and the Mac work well together, they won't test whether it works with each type of disc (usually, the manufacturer will).
However, that is probably limited to redbook/standards-compliant discs; since a DualDisc's CD side doesn't comply with any standard other than "DualDisc", and because it is not considered important enough to be officially supported by most (if not all) manufacturers, they probably won't test them since they're bound to get mixed results anyway.
Similarly I don't remember seeing a "strictly redbook only" disclaimer on any of the media available from Apple describing the capabilities of its Superdrive when I was making my mac mini buying decision.
You didn't see one because it is not required. Asking that Apple (or any other company) warns you that their players won't play non-redbook CDs is a bit like asking that they tell you everything your optical drive won't play. Apple claims that their Superdrives will read CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R DL, which aren't only a bunch of weird-looking letters, but also correspond to a standard. When you see a CD logo on a drive, it means that it will play redbook-compliant CDs. Your Dell player simply does more that what it is supposedly capable of, but because one (or many) optical drives will play DualDisc doesn't mean that they all have to.

Mac mini Intel Core Duo and HK Soundsticks USB, Any Problem???

Hello everyone.
I am thinking of "transferring" my "old" HK Soundsticks USB for my sis's new Mac mini Intel Core Duo.
Is there any issue or problem with the mac detecting the USB speakers?? I thought I read somewhere here a while back that generally the Intel Macs might have a problem detecting the USB speakers.
Thanks and cheers.

Hi NewMoses, thanks for replying but you have to be specific, if you just bought your Soundsticks, it is most likely the HK Soundsticks II, is yours?? which has a normal audio jack, unlike the 1st Soundsticks, which has a USB input.
I am sure the Soundsticks II with the audio jack would have not much problem on the new Intel Macs, since they are what I considered a "physical audio input", unlike the USB, which involves the USB technology, where more complication may come into play.
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Mac Mini Intel Core Duo

FCP Studio requires an AGP Quartz Extreme or PCI Express graphics card .. does that mean that it is not compatible on a Mac Mini Intel Core Duo? The Mini's Intel GMA950 graphics processor is not PCI Express, is it? I'd appreciate some feedback, thanks
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Mac Mini intel Core Duo w/ Virtual racing R/C game

Hello there,
Im thinking of purchasing a Mac Mini I plan to partition the drive and install Windows XP as well.My question is on the windows side there is a game that I want to see if it works.
If any one has a Mac mini with Windows XP installed can you please download this demo and get back to me to see how it works on the mac mini.
The game is a R/C simulation game and its a demo how you control the car use the arrow buttons
Here is the demo download:
http://www.virtualrc.com/downloads/gamedownldetail.aspx?gdid=47&gdc=0
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And here are the spec for the Windows XP:
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Install the Basic Game Software and create your VRC account
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alpha mac g4-
Greetings and welcome to the Apple boards.
Have you tried taking a look at the MacGamer.com website?
It looks to me like you can definitely find an answer there.
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Mac Mini Intel Core Duo refuses to boot.

Hi all,
Here's a run down of the issue I'm experiencing. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
I installed the most recent Security Update. The Mini booted fine, but all applications were taking several minutes to launch, and some would not launch at all.
Tried to connect to another computer using Screen Sharing, but the application never opened. Tried to Force Quit. Wouldn't respond. Tried to kill with Terminal, but not luck -- Terminal wouldn't open. Tried to restart, but Log Out kept failing due to Screen Sharing.
Soon after, everything became unresponsive. Cold reboot by holding the power button.
Start up stopped at white screen, gray Apple logo, endlessly turning gear. Waited patiently. Nothing.
Cold restart. Boot to Tiger disk and run Disk Utility. HDD required minor repair (bad header). Fixed with Disk Utility. Tried to Verify/Repair Permissions, Disk Utility informed me "No valid packages."
Restarted; no luck. Gray apple, spinning gear.
Booted to Single-User Mode to run fsck, but start up stalled after "Apple Intel CPUPowerManagement: initialization complete." Waited a few minutes. Nothing.
Cold reboot. Try booting to Verbose, same story, only start up froze after "CSRHIDTransition Driver ... Done."
Start losing my mind. Reset the PMU; computer starts to sound like a vacuum. Gray screen, spinning gear. Nothing.
Figure out I should reset the SMC. Do it. Nothing.
Might as well try resetting the PRAM. Nothing. Gray apple, spinning gear.
Try booting to Safe Mode. Nothing. Gray apple, spinning gear.
Boot the Mini as a target drive, find I am perfectly able to access the drive and all information from a MacBook. Run Leopard's Disk Utility and find the same issue as before -- bad header, maybe from all of the cold reboots? Disk Utility fixes the issue, verified as okay. However, Disk Utility will not allow me to Verify/Repair Permissions (the buttons were dimmed).
Try to boot the Mini as an external Firewire drive from the MacBook. Nothing. Gray screen, apple, gear.
Boot the MacBook as a target/FW drive, and it boots perfectly on the Mini. I guess it's not a hardware issue. Thank heaven.
I've exhausted all of my options.
What did the Security Update do to the Mini?
Are there any other options besides reformatting?
And if I do reformat, will re-installing the Security Update put me right back in this situation?
Thank you!

Welcome! From reading your post, you seem to be doing all the right things.
+And if I do reformat, will re-installing the Security Update put me right back in this situation?+
No. Chances are that you had a system-level issue before the update, and the update finished it off. Like the chip in my windshield from two years ago cracking overnight after some ice.
I would try installing the correct Combo Updater onto the internal drive when booted from another unit. If that doesn't do it, run an Archive and Install from your factory discs or a retail copy of Leopard. Be sure to be backed up first.

Mac Mini Intel Core Duo/Tiger - Troubleshooting wifi signal

After replacing my Mini's hard drive, the airport signal strength is averaging one fewer bars. It shows a single bar more often and the number of bars fluctuate more often. I triple checked when I put the antenna back, it was back exactly as it originally was. The shielding is near where the wire connects to the Airport. Perhaps I did something to the antenna I'm unaware of. I did notice that the Airport had two antenna connectors and I'm using only but I'm pretty sure that was the way it was before.
I'd like to get it back to where it was usually 3-4 bars. The router is 15 feet away.
Perhaps I could replace the wifi antenna?
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I know my Mini is really old, as is the OS, 10.4. Will something like this boost my signal?
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My fault. I was testing wifi strength with the cover was off. Once I put the cover back on, consistently showed 4 bars.
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What is max size/spec for upgrading hard drive in 2006 mac mini intel core duo 1.66?

I've been through the commuity and on-line retailer pages and I'm confused by the variety of answers here. I know the max thickness must be 2.5." But some say 5400 RPM; others say 7200. Some say 1TB but show only 750GB.
Is iTB safe in this box? Overheating issues?
I've seen a Seagate Momentus 1TB from one retailer but can't find any trace of it at others or on the Seagate site.

Hello,
The most important thing is that it be Serial ATA (1.5 Gb/s) compatible, there is no practical limit other than manufactured size in that form & speed.
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Mac mini intel core 2 duo 2.4ghz keeps freezing up

I have a refurbished (bought from Apple) Mac Mini Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz with upgraded 8GB of RAM, OS is latest Snow Leopard (10.6.8). I have had this machine less than one year, and in the past five days it has started to freeze up quite often.
After running Disk Utility and getting a message that said to repair the disk, I hve run Disk Utility from the original disk to fix the problem. No effect, I still have regular freezes and often. I have run Disk Utility again several times, and have had to repair Permissions several times, though the Repair Disk says the hard drive is okay. Only the Permissions keep getting messed up, and this happens quickly.
I have no large number of video files on the desk top.
I checked some threads and ran Activity Monitor and Control. Control when I ran "disk0" did not show any problem. I do not know how to interpret the Activity Monitor readings.
Short of wiping the computer and reinstalling everything, is there a way to determine what is wrong with the computer?
Thanks for any help!

Hello,
Only the Permissions keep getting messed up,
You can ignore repeated Permission fixes if the last line says completed in it.
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM you have for real & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
In the Memory tab of Activity Monitor, are there a lot of Pageouts?
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PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
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