Infra red port on mac mini 1.25???

Does mac mini 1.25 power pc have IR port?
As ive got front row app running on it and i wanna buy an apple remote.
mac mini 1.25 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

No IR port on G4 Mac mini.

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Please let me know thunderbolt or mini display port in mac mini does support voice and video. If I connect this Thunderbolt port to a TV using the mini display port to HDMI cable, will I get both audio and video in TV.

bjones981 wrote:
Please let me know thunderbolt or mini display port in mac mini does support voice and video. If I connect this Thunderbolt port to a TV using the mini display port to HDMI cable, will I get both audio and video in TV.
It depends on the model of Mac mini. If you have the new shape Mac mini - the one with the black circular plastic disk on the bottom, then yes. It can support sending audio and video to a suitable Displayport or Mini Displayport monitor, and it can also support sending audio and video together via HDMI using the built-in HDMI port.
Older Mac minis do not support this even with a Mini Displayport to HDMI adaptor. The nearest you can get is an adaptor like the KanexLive iAdapt 51 which takes the audio from the speaker out and the video from the Mini Displayport and then combines them to send over HDMI.

Using DVI to VGA adaptor with HDMI to DVI port on Mac Mini Server

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For this, we pulled out an old stock VGA montior we have around the office, and found an apple DVI to VGA adaptor (http://i51.tinypic.com/2mzb4lc.jpg)
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Welcome to  Discussions!
What you are seeing is the difference between an analog and digital DVI connector, as DVI as a specification can provide both types of signal, depending on implementation. When used in a mode where only one or the other type of signal is provided, the different connectors prevent a mismatch. VGA being analog, the DVI to VGA adapter is using an analog DVI connector. The other connector you are dealing with is a digital only connector. HDMI is digital only, hence the HDMI to DVI adapter being digital only. Thus you can not adapt from the HDMI port to VGA with just passive adapters, you would need a conversion device between. It would be cheaper and more effective to use a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter.

How to DIY-repair fried USB ports on Mac mini?

Accidentally I fried (or so it seems) all the four USB ports of a Mac mini 2 GHz Core 2 Duo 2 Ghz 2 GB 160 GB SuperDrive AirPort Extreme Bluetooth (released by Apple on August 2007) with Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. It was after connecting an iPhone AD/DC to power a USB hub.
I can access the machine using a wireless keyboard but the USB keybord or any other USB device is not recognized when plugged into the USB ports of such Mac mini.
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I was thinking of some kind of DIY, even if it requires soldering... Any ideas to replace the fried USB ports with new ones?
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Most, if not all, IC's that would be related to the problem
are of the BGA (ball grid array) variety and require special
equipment to remove and replace as all the connections
are under the IC.
The only DIY alternative would be to purchase a logic board
and replace it yourself. Just Google "mac mini logic board
replacement" for sources and how to's. Apple themselves,
will not sell you logic boards, so you need to get it from a
third party vendor. As to which ones are are the most reputable,
I cannot really say. I would suggest avoiding any Ebay offers
that are not reputable retailers.
As usual, be aware that if a price on such an item is too
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After moving houses, I don't have any land line with internet. I have now got mobile internet from Vodafone connected to my Mac mini. This I share over the ethernet port and feed into my Airport extreme base station (AEBS) WAN port.
Also, my blackbook is connected to the AEBS via ethernet cable. Iphone and Ipad to be connected over WiFi.
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And also what IP ranges AEBS would work on as default.
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After moving houses, I don't have any land line with internet. I have now got mobile internet from Vodafone connected to my Mac mini. This I share over the ethernet port and feed into my Airport extreme base station (AEBS) WAN port.
Also, my blackbook is connected to the AEBS via ethernet cable. Iphone and Ipad to be connected over WiFi.
Mobile internet > MacMini USB > MacMini shared ethernet > AEBS > Blacbook >> iPhone & iPad.
What is the best way to set up AEBS? To share a public internet address? As a brigde? To distribute a IP range?
And also what IP ranges AEBS would work on as default.
Also: the shared ethernet port on the Mini, should that be configured by DHCP or some other way. Now it says it has a self assigned IP and may not be able to connect.
I have tried a lot, but I am not a network savy person.
Any help and suggestions are welcome.
Jan
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cmw

Get Temperature Monitor to see if it's heat related...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12381/temperature-monitor
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I also assume that each of your users is currently using a single gigabit Ethernet port to connect to the LAN.
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Booting from the array also protects you from the most likely "repair" scenario for Mac mini: Swapping out your entire machine.
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Is possible to connect iMac 21.5" late 2009 to a New 2011 Mac Mini

Is possible to connect my iMac 21.5" late 2009 as external monitor for a new 2011 Mac Mini. iMac (Mini display port) to Mac Mini (Thunderbold Port).

Sorry, but only the 27" Late 2009 and 2010 iMac's support input to there DisplayPorts and not either 21.5" model.
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Infra red on the Macbook

Dear All
Does the infra red port on the Macbook only work with the remote control used with Front Row? I tried sending something to the Macbook through infra red with my mobile phone because it does not have bluetooth, but it does not work. Is there something I am not doing or understanding perhaps?
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Veedeekay

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How reliable is the Mac Mini or iMac (2009) models?

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Remember, Apple offers a 1 year hardware warranty and 90 days free software support, both of which can be extended to three years from date of computer's purchase. This means if you appear to have what is a technical issue with your machine off the bat, Apple will cover the lemon issue, if it is obvious it is not an issue you the user could have caused. Mind you, if issues appear much later during the ownership, it gets harder to justify that it is a manufacturer issue. As long as you don't upgrade the internal hardware, the hardware test CD that comes with the machine will be able to tell if there is a manufacturer issue with the machine. All bets are off, if you change the RAM, or hard drive beyond the specs of the machine. Apple publishes the specs of the machine on http://support.apple.com/
Your machine shouldn't overheat unless you excede the published specs.
The advantage of the Mac is that malware and viruses are practically a nonissue, and everything you usually could desire is already built-in to the machine. So while you could build your own machine, you can't really get the integrated hardware and software as you do with the Mac.
Yes, the 27" iMac has been hit hard with issues, more around the display than anything else. I for one, if were forced to get an iMac, would get the 21.5".
I've not seen any specific Mac Mini issues really come to the fore.
If sound is lost on a Mac Mini, it usually is due to the fact that minijack connectors themselves are fragile to begin with, and endusers tend to jiggle them a lot in the connector, causing the connectivity to get lost. If you are careful to follow these directions about cables*:
http://www.macmaps.com/frayguide.html
You should avoid most of those issues. Thankfully there are 5 USB ports on Mac Minis, and USB audio is frequently better than the built-in audio, except when adding your own 5.1 speaker system with mini-Toslink connector speakers.
Don't forget the number of posters to this board, don't even amount to 1 tenth of a percent of all purchasers of iMacs, Mac Minis, or MacBooks any one quarter. Thus the remark you said was "rude" is not. It is factual. You are basing your information on what amounts to less odds of happening than a space program disaster with NASA. Mostly people who have problems are posting, and those who don't rarely do post.
I recently had a hard drive die after the three year warranty was spent, but hard drives I've seen die on Acers and Dells on the first day of ownership too, so that's nothing new. Backing up your data is the best way to deal with data loss*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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Hi,
So ever since I acquired this new mac mini I haven't been able to get it to recognize any devices connected via ethernet. I obviously checked the cables and all is good there. I tried connecting it to another mac, and while the other machine was detecting a device (the mac mini) at the other end of the cable, the mac mini kept saying that the cable is unplugged or the device off.
After several days of having the issue I decided to remove the ethernet service from the network preference pane to set it up again but to my surprise, the built-in ethernet option was not available (I only got airport, firewire, bluetooth DUN, VPN, PPPoE and 6 to 4). At this point I tried removing the networkinterfaces.plist file form the system configuration folder in the system preferences folder to no avail. I then tried to zap the PRAM, NVRAM, reset the SMU, SMC and all that kind of things to get the port recognized by the system but no luck.
When I look at the system profile I get these weird results in Ethernet Cards:
pci14e4,4353:
Type: Other Network Controller
Bus: PCI
Vendor ID: 0x14e4
Device ID: 0x4353
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x106b
Subsystem ID: 0x0093
Revision ID: 0x0001
Link Width: x1
BSD name: en0
Kext name: AppleAirPortBrcm43224.kext
Location: /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm 43224.kext
Version: 425.16.2
Comparing it to other macs I have It should read "ethernet" rather than that strange pci name on top and the kext name shouldn't read airport but something like AppleIntel and in location it shouldn't direct to the IO80211Family.kext package but rather to the IONetworkingFamily.kext.
So I popped in the system install DVD and fired up System profiler and at that point I didn't even get an "ethernet cards" option in the left side pane. So this is leading me to believe that the hardware is not being recognized at all, so maybe it's damaged. I did replace the HDD with a bigger one and change the RAM modules to bigger ones but I don't think I could have damaged the hardware in these processes, also I don't see how this would affect the ethernet port as it's integrated to Motherboard and didn't messed with it at all (I was very careful, to say the least!).
The last thing to do is reinstalling the system but I don't think it'll help (after seeing that the ethernet port is not even being detected by the install OS) but I need to offload all the data from my internal disk and at the moment I don't have an spare drive to do it.
So, what's the recommendation? A field trip to an Apple Store? Closest one is like 3,000 km from where I am right now, so...
Well, thanks for any pointers, suggestions and help in general.

I do not have any answers for you. Yes it appears to be reading what should be an ethernet card as an AirPort card. Have you played around with trying to install another version of Mac OS X other than the version that shipped with the Mac mini? Apple has long told us that we should not install a version of Mac OS X that was older than the shipping version. With the Mid 2010 Mac mini, the Restore DVD has the only version of Snow Leopard that will work with this Mac mini's specific hardware. At least until Apple releases 10.6.5. If you have installed other versions of Mac OS X, then erasing the HDD and installing the OS from the Restore DVD(s) that shipped with the mini may get you back to the point you need to be.
Unfortunately I think that you voided your Apple Warranty when you installed the different HDD. That was always a question in the past when folks wanted to open the former version of Mac minis and upgrade the RAM. But with the 2009 models folks started reporting here in the Apple Discussions that Apple was informing them that they had voided their warranty by opening their Mac mini. This new model made the RAM user upgradable, but the User Manual specifically states on page 43, 54 and 61 that there are no user serviceable parts in the Mid 2010 Mac mini except the memory.
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How can I connect a new mac mini to my old vga monitor? There doesn't seem to be a mini display port

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