Mac Mini Erratic Beeping NOT On Startup

Over the past couple weeks my Mac Mini has ominously beeped on 4 occassions. The first and second times it was one short beep. The third time it was three short beeps. And today it went kind of nuts; the beeping was irregular, patternless, and didn't stop on its own. On every single occasion I've had my ministack external HD on and iTunes running (music library is on the HD). When today's irregular beepfest occurred, I quickly quit iTunes and the beeping stopped immediately. I have noticed that my system lags somewhat when I run iTunes, and the last two occurrences of beeping have happened when the system seemed particularly busy (fans were going full blast). I've read that beeping commonly indicates RAM problems, but I've had no issues upon startup, and as soon as the beeping stops everything seems normal, with no obvious RAM-related symptoms.
Thanks in advance for any help!
-David

Mac minis beeping is only an indicator or a RAM issue if it happens at startup and is a recognizable pattern of one, two or three beeps separated by a brief silence. If you don't get that indication, it means that your system RAM is OK. If it were not, for instance if there were problems due to a memory stick overheating, you would see system crashes, and likely kernel panics.
I wonder if the beeping you hear is associated with the system alert sound - the sound the system makes to identify an error or problem, in which case what you are more likely to be suffering is a software or MacOS issue.
Next time this happens, note the time (shown in the menu bar) and try looking in the Console (in Applications>Utilities) to see if there are any log entries which match the time. If so, those log entries are likely to provide some guidance as to what is going on.

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I've seen similar posts (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12170891&#12170891) but thought I'd start a new one, mainly because I haven't heard anyone mention the startup chime.
I woke up my 2007 stock Mac Mini Friday morning and the cursor was frozen. Unplugged and replugged the mouse to no avail. Couldn't force quit, so I had to power down. Restarted with a badly distored startup chime (not "speaker breakup" from excessive volume, just distortion, and some "stuttering") and a gray screen that didn't go away. Restarted many, many times. Inserted Snow Leopard DVD to run Disc Utility but it wasn't recognized -- just a gray screen. Tried resetting the PMU and SMC with no results. Tried booting into single-user mode (with a wired USB keyboard) to eject the DVD, but no luck. Tried open firmware, but nothing. Once in an while I would get the Apple icon and a spinning progress bar that never went away.
Took it to the Genius Bar, where they tried to boot from a Firewire drive, with no success. The best they could do was tell me my 17-month old Mac was out of warranty. That confirmed, I took it home, cracked it open and removed the Snow Leopard DVD (with a credit card) to insert the install disc it shipped with. That didn't work. A couple of times it looked like it would, but then after the spinning bar I got the multilingual system bomb message. Tried to run Hardware Test, but nothing. Put in original Disc 2... and that gave me a flashing folder! Progress! Forced the DVD out and slipped in Disc 1. That started to read, and then I got some kernel-panic looking text and a shutdown. My last attempt was to create a USB boot drive from the original install discs, but my old Sawtooth won't let me run the installer.
Is there any hope at this point? I just bought the thing last May, so I've had it less than a year and a half. The distorted startup chime makes me think the logic board is fried and no amount of fooling with the startup drive will make a difference. The only thing out of the ordinary in this case was that it went to sleep last Thursday night with a DV camera hooked up via Firewire.
I'm not thrilled about giving Apple any more money for another Mini, but I'm heavily invested in Logic Studio so I don't have much of a choice of platform.
I'm pretty sure I'm doomed, but I thought I'd post anyway. A quick internet search shows I'm not the only one with the gray screen of death on a fairly new Mini. Thanks in advance for any pointers.

Thanks.
The Genius was able to get to the Apple logo and spinning... thing (what used to be the beachball). His theory was that as long as the Snow Leopard disc was in there, the boot process would never get to the Firewire port. Once I got home I literally pried the Snow Leopard disc out and put in the original install disc. But any progress whatsoever ends in the system bomb message.
Thing is, I had tried to eject the disc by booting with the mouse button down. But on restarting, the laser in the optical mouse flashes quickly, once. I don't think the USB ports are going "live" at all... so I can't get into single user mode, safe mode, hardware test, anything. The Genius' keyboard was no help in that regard. So yeah, I suspect a hardware problem.
A search of "gray screen of death" shows this happening to a lot of models.

Mac Mini (server) 2011 not accepting 4 GB

My Mac Mini Server (mid 2011) does not accept 4 GB of memory. It does boot succesfully with a 2 GB SODIMM in slot 0 or in slot 1, but when I insert 2 2GB SODIMMs in both slots, it does not boot. It does give the start up beep and then after a few secs it 'restarts' or so and beeps again. It repeats so continuously.
When I insert a 4 GB SODIMM in either of the slots, the issue is exactly the same.
I've been trying several things regarding memory placement. 2 GB in slot 0 and 4 GB in slot 1. 4 GB in slot 0 and 2 GB slot 1, 2x 2 GB in slot 0 and 1. All the same result.
Only once, it somehow did start with a 2 GB and a 4 GB SODIMM installed and then OS X did report 6 GB in total, so somewhere both slots do work. However, on next day (after power down) the same issue of continuous beeps reoccured.
I inspected both memory slots but could not see any dirt or mishap. I cleaned both slots with cleaning alchohol. I even "sanded" the contacts with a narrow piece of paper, folded to proper thickness. I've given the Mac a PRAM reset, an SMC reset. All to no avail.
Any idea what this can be caused by?
BTW, I do not know whether it is related: I also noticed that the 2 leftmost USB ports (seen from front) do not detect a keyboard when inserted in those. When the keyboard is inserted in one of the 2 rightmost ports, the kb is detected without problems.

Kingston says it should work
http://www.kingston.com/us/memory/search/?partid=kta-mb1333/4g
I can't find where ICIDU says anything about supported computers
http://www.icidu.com/en/memory/notebook-memory/sodimm-ddr3-1333-8gb-kit.html
Based on what you did and problem with UBS ports I suspect either a slot problem or a problem on the logic board.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Mac mini and grey screen at startup

ok, so last night we come home and my mom tries to turn on her mac mini, but it just freezes on the grey screen in the startup process. i tried booting from the disk but it didnt work (no the disk is stuck in the drive cuz i cant start up the computer to eject it) i tried booting into a version of osx on my external hd by holding down option at startup, but nothing showed up not even the internal hd. none of the startup commands work (firewire target,single user,safe mode, holding mouse to eject cd) none of those worked, any ideas?

First off, why can't you insert the original install
DVD that came with your mini?
The drive won't take the disk at all. I tried other disks as well, and it won't take any of them in either. The drive is pretty much non-responsive.
Secondly, if you leave the mini on the grey screen,
what happens? Does it keep going however long you
leave it, or does it show a flashing questions mark
after maybe 15 minutes?
It remains on the gray screen for however long I leave it on.
Thirdly, since the mini was running for a couple of
days after the 10.4.8 update, the problem seems
unlikely to have been caused by that. What were you
doing the last time the mini was in use? How did you
shut it down?
Browsing the web, email, and listening to music for the most part. I put it to sleep for the night, and then when I came back the next day to activate it, it froze on me. Pointer wouldn't move, it was locked up. First time that has ever happened to me. After that I ended up turning it off by holding the power button down for five seconds. When I turned it back on, I got the gray screen.
Fourthly, what model of mac mini is it?
It's the original basic model. 1.25 G4 processor, 40 GB hard drive, and 256 MB RAM.
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Hello,
I have a Mac mini core duo 1.66 Ghz with 2 GB, Superdrive, its is running Tiger will all updates and firmware. I decided to upgrade to Leopard. The computer is booted up, I insert the installation DVD for Leopard, double click on the intall icon, asks me to click on reboot. When rebooting the DVD is ejected and it boots from the HD normally. I tried pressing C on the keyboard at boot up and the DVD still gets ejected. I tried from System prefs the disk startup as the DVD, but the same. I thought it was my Superdrive so I bought a replacement, a Pioneer, it came with a Panasonic one, and the same thing. So I have ruled out the Superdrives. I tried the Tiger installation and the same thing, it ejects it as well. I tried the DVDs on other computers and they are not ejected, the installer runs. HELP!!!!

I'm having the same problem. I have a mac mini, 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4, running OS 10.3. The CD drive is a Matshita CW-8124, CD-RW/DVD-ROM. I wanted to see if I needed to upgrade firmware prior to installing leopard, but couldn't find any mention of firmware for this system on the apple site.
The cd ejects on restart. If I put in the cd and shutdown, then boot while holding down the option key, it ejects the cd prior to bringing up the boot option screen. With the boot option screen up, I install the cd, but it doesn't see it.

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Hi, first of all I'd like to say that I tried to find a solution not only in this forum but all over google could offer me and still no success in finding a solution to this problem I'm having, so you guys are my last hope before taking my computer to maintenance.
Well, the thing is, I have a Mac mini Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz that, while trying to install Windows XP through bootcamp I accidentally deleted the Mac OS X disk partition, no harm there as I have a time machine backup, but now I'm trying to boot my OS X 10.6 disk to reinstall the OS but only Windows XP is starting up. I tried to startup with the keys option pressed but no menu to select the source it should boot. I also tried start it up with C pressed, I could hear the DVD spinning and the laser doing its job but only Windows XP boot up.
During my journey trying to make my OS X disk to boot, I realize that almost no startup command was working as its suppose to be, I tried to ZAP PRAM using CMDOPT+PR but no double chime, tried then CMDOPT+NV to clear NV RAM and nothing. My keyboard is the original Apple aluminum wired keyboard that came with my iMac and it's working perfectly.
I also tried to reset PMU, SMC and still no success.
Message was edited by: Carlos Grossi

Found out what's going on on this very same forum, during my research I actually wasn't using the right words on the search box to find what I need, but who'd know that the official Apple keyboard was the source of the problem, anyway for those who came here with the same problem as mine, turns out that my iMac Aluminum Keyboard isn't "compatible" with startup commands although it works for pretty much everything else, I just used an old PC USB keyboard to give the boot options using Alt as the Option key and Windows Logo as Command key.
And that's it!

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I've just bought a Mac Mini Server 2012 model, and when I try and boot to recovery or safe mode, the boot hangs, then the machine restarts with the 'Your computer restarted because of a problem' message. The machine boots to normal mode fine, and can also boot to startup manager, which shows a recovery partition. I've tried resetting the NVRAM, as well as booting straight from Apple's servers. Both have not helped. The previous owner said he reinstalled OSX from recovery before he gave it to me, which leads me to believe it could be something other than a faulty drive. In addition, Disk Utility has not thrown up anything. If anyone could shed some light on this at all it would be very much appreciated as I'm starting to get a little bit annoyed!
Thanks.

The first thing you should do after acquiring a second-hand computer is to erase the internal drive and install a clean copy of OS X. How you do that depends on the model. Look it up on this page to see what version was originally installed.
If the machine shipped with OS X 10.4 or 10.5, you need a boxed and shrink-wrapped retail Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) installation disc, which you can get from the Apple Store or a reputable reseller — not from eBay or anything of the kind. If the machine has less than 1 GB of memory, you'll need to add more in order to install 10.6. I suggest you install as much memory as it can take, according to the technical specifications.
If the machine shipped with OS X 10.6, you need the gray installation discs that came with it. If you don't have the discs, order replacements from Apple. A retail disc, or the gray discs from another model, will not work.
To boot from an optical disc, insert it, then reboot and hold down the C key at the startup chime. Release the key when you see the gray Apple logo on the screen.
If the machine shipped with OS X 10.7 or later, it should boot into Internet Recovery mode when you hold down the key combination option-command-R at the startup chime. Release the keys when you see a spinning globe.
Once booted from the disc or in Internet Recovery, launch Disk Utility and select the icon of the internal drive — not any of the volume icons nested beneath it. In the Partition tab, select the default options: a GUID partition table with one data volume in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. This operation will permanently remove all existing data on the drive, which is what you should do.
After partitioning, quit Disk Utility and run the OS X Installer. When the installation is done, the system will automatically reboot into the Setup Assistant, which will prompt you to transfer the data from another Mac, its backups, or from a Windows computer. If you have any data to transfer, this is usually the best time to do it.
You should then run Software Update and install all available system updates from Apple. If you want to upgrade to a major version of OS X newer than 10.6, buy it from the Mac App Store. Note that you can't keep an upgraded version that was installed by the previous owner. He or she can't legally transfer it to you, and without the Apple ID you won't be able to update it in Software Update or reinstall, if that becomes necessary. The same goes for any App Store products that the previous owner installed — you have to repurchase them.
If the previous owner "accepted" the bundled iLife applications (iPhoto, iMovie, and Garage Band) in the App Store so that he or she could update them, then they're linked to that Apple ID and you won't be able to download them without buying them. Reportedly, Apple customer service has sometimes issued redemption codes for these apps to second owners who asked.
If the previous owner didn't deauthorize the computer in the iTunes Store under his Apple ID, you wont be able toauthorize it under your ID. In that case, contact iTunes Support.

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