Mini Mac, Big Problem

My house has a wireless network that is maintained through a PC. My Mac Laptop has full, fast, wireless service everywhere in the house. I just bought a Mac Mini and it gets almost no airport signal in my office. My laptop gets signal sitting literally in front of my Mini, but the Mini does not.
Then sometimes I will have full bars of Wireless signal, but the internet won't connect at all.
I seem to gather that this is a fairly common problem. Is there anything I can do?

I have a Mac Mini, that also seems to be deaf, whereas the Macbook Pro sitting on the same desk has no issues. I am thinking the MacMini's antenna is not optimal. The MacPro has no issues, either.

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1.Every time I press a butten the apple shows up then a sad ipod shows up.
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Hey Clintonfrombirmingham
I called Apple technical support in Denmark, but with no positive reply.
She couldn't do anything, and said that They had sent a recall Email about the problem and with their offer to repair the Macbook Pro, but I'd never recieved an Email about the problem. She wasn't in power to make an exception. It can't be true that i paid a lot of money, for a product that can't barely stand on its own feets, Apple didn't tell me that the product I was about to buy, would restart every 5 minute. and now when they know the problem, they wont repair it? it just don't make sense for me. If a car seller discovers that all the brakes in a car he had sold, will crash after some years he will call all the cars back to repair no mater what. i just don't understand how Apple will make good service for their custumers, by extending the warranty from 2 to 3 years, but wont take the computers there is a little bit to old, 4 months will make the difference. i can't believe it.
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I just brought a mac mini (Late 2014) i have two displays monitors connected, one HDMI to DVI. and one thunderbolt to DVI. I can have both thunderbolts connected and the problem its the same, when back from sleep ,one monitor doesn't turn on. i have to disconnect one and then both work, it only happens when the mac goes to sleep. on cold restart or turning the mac on, this problem doesn't occur. any help.

I have this same problem too. I purchased the Mac Mini with the intention of running dual monitors. I'm using the HDMI and mini-display/Thunderbolt to DVI. I've also tried MiniDisplay/Thunderbolt to HDMI and I'm experiencing the same problem as angelfromfullerton. Whenever it tries to wake from sleep, it can't decide on monitor arrangement and keeps flicking between the two, making the OS unusable and forcing a reboot... EVERY TIME. I've also experienced the issue once or twice on a cold boot. It doesn't matter which Thunderbolt port is used either.
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This is similar to a problem that appeared before, but with a different twist.
On 4 July all was well. On 5 July I switched on and there was no "chord" from the Mac. When I collected my mail - no sound from my speakers (which are part of my screen). Logged on to a couple of sites - no sound.
The System Profiler, under the "Audio (Built In)" category, says: "No Built-in Audio." I know that's wrong because it's always worked before and when I plug my headset in it works fine.
When I go to the Sound preferences panel in System Preferences, it finds the headset but if I unplug that it finds nothing.
I tried running the hardware test (by putting in the OS X install disc and holding D during startup.) It couldn't find a problem.
So, as far as I can see, audio output is fine for the USB headset output but not for the others. Is there a simple fix? The nearest Apple store is about 200 miles away and I don't fancy the idea of posting the Mac off.
(And I think it's still under warranty for a couple more weeks.)
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hello mini users with the "no audio output" problem
it seems that there are faulty output jacks in the macbook and the mac mini
there are two things you can try:
i tried everything and began thinking about what new software i had installed. it was "macam" which enables you to use older webcams on OSX. i needed that to use my webcam on skype.
macam installs a file called "macam.component"
if you have the same, do this - take that file out of:
(your hard drive)/library/quicktime - macam.component
and just put it on your desktop
restart, then in your sound pref's choose your audio output (if doesn't work restart again)
the first time i took it out, i had my sound back instantly, another time i had to choose audio output in sound prefs. you kind of have to try different things. after you get your sound back, you can put back "macam.component" to use your webcam.
it seems macam causes the problem, the two can not work at the same time.
the second thing: if you dont have "maccam" try plugging and unplugging output jack a few times and restarting until you have sound.
the problem still could be with the OSX 10.4.10 update / quicktime...or maybe even a hardware problem like others with macbooks were saying (with the red light), not sure.
people with macbooks and who have the red light on, say to use a paperclip to turn off the switch inside.
my mini does not have a red light on. i tried using a paperclip but it doesnt work.
hope this helps, beleive me i feel your pain!!!!
what good is a computer without sound?
extremely annoying problem that i hope apple looks into and fixes
-andrew

Mac Mini and Internet Problems

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The Mac Mini (probably) won't boot natively to OS 9. The OS 9 disks are for what's called Classic Mode. It's for backwards compatibility for those of us who have older software we still want to run; it basically runs OS 9 within OS X. Since you are new to Macs, running old applications is probably not an issue for you, and you will save around 300 MB or so by not installing it.
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I'll try to make this short, but it is a looonngg problem.
About one month ago my Mac Mini began having problems when I boot up. The computer would freeze on the opening page where I put in my password. My wireless keyboard and trackpad would not work. This would be interminent at first but progressively got worse.
I spent hours on phone tech support. Finally realizing that would not help I drove the 100 mile round trip to the local Apple store for a Genius bar appointment.
The first appointment (there have been 5 - meaning 500 miles) resulted in them doing a clean install of Lion. I took the computer back to the office and guess what, the same problem.
I drove back to the Apple store, the Genius did some more work and proclaimed it fixed. It was, for about 3 days when everything started again.
More time now on tech support. One more trip to the Apple store.
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I got it back to the office on Thursday. Everthing works great.
Until today. I boot the computer, it gets to the screen that has the apple on it - then nothing.
I manually power it down and reboot. Same thing.
I've set up ANOTHER appointment at the Genius bar tomorrow.
My question: can I demand that they replace this machine. Between work and home I have 2 Mac Mini's, a Macbook Pro, a Macbook Air and 2 iPhones. I've never had this type of problem. I'm really tired of this.
I purchased this in February so it is in warranty.
Thanks

rwgleaves wrote:
I took it to the Apple store Genius bar today - my 5th trip - and they did just what I'd hoped. They replaced the Mac Mini with a brand new machine.
This is why I buy Mac/Apple!
Excellent new, sorry you had so much trouble on the way. And yes, Apple Stores are awesome!

I have a big problem whit my mac pro early 2008 can u help me please.

Hi my name is walter hernandez i have a big problem whit my mac pro early 2008
this is a message from my mac.
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 1151724 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          3
Anonymous UUID:                    ECF28484-9BA1-43C5-B7CF-70087794A780
Fri Aug 24 09:00:27 2012
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2abf6a): Kernel trap at 0x00279ece, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0xff000014, CR3: 0x522e2000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x0bccc43c, EBX: 0xff000000, ECX: 0x08eb8b7c, EDX: 0x0330c3e8
CR2: 0xff000014, EBP: 0x6115bde8, ESI: 0x001fb000, EDI: 0x00000000
EFL: 0x00010286, EIP: 0x00279ece, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x03350010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x6115bbd8 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x6115bc0c 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x6115bc28 : 0x2abf6a (0x59e3d0 0x279ece 0xe 0x59e59a)
0x6115bd08 : 0x2a1a78 (0x6115bd20 0x1 0x6115bde8 0x279ece)
0x6115bd18 : 0x279ece (0xe 0x2c970048 0x61150010 0x10)
0x6115bde8 : 0x258575 (0xbccc43c 0x1fb000 0x0 0x1)
0x6115bf38 : 0x2ab83c (0x8c35ebc 0x709fb000 0x7fff 0x1)
0x6115bfc8 : 0x2a18da (0x85a04c4 0x0 0x10 0x85a04c4)
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Mac OS version:
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Network Service: Ethernet 2, Ethernet, en1
PCI Card: ATI Radeon HD 2600, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-1
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Serial ATA Device: WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0, 465.76 GB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0, 465.76 GB
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Hi, I got a big problem. I restored my macbook pro and after I erased everything and started to restall the system, it showed I need to give the apple ID that was purchased the lion. The problem is that I lost my installing CD, and I don't have an ID with lion purchased, so what should I do? Do you sell the system software?

This is a user forum; we're not  Apple.
Please contact the Apple Support folks directly for issues related to hardware and software purchases.
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If your MacBook Pro purchase with Lion wasn't registered with Apple, then you'll have to discuss this directly with the Apple Support folks, or repurchase Lion from the Mac App Store (which will usually involve a call to Apple for a redemption code as it's old software), or you'll "purchase" (it's free) Mavericks OS X 10.9 and wipe and install that assuming your MacBook Pro supports Mavericks. If you didn't purchase the MacBook Pro from Apple (and it was shipped with an older release), then you'll end up acquiring a redemption code from Apple for Lion, or installing Mavericks.
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sputniki: Once OS X 10.7 or 10.9 has been reinstalled, yes, getting Time Machine configured and going is undoubtedly on the agenda. But had there been a viable backup here, I expect jianghua would have used it.

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Sounds like you've got a PowerPC G4 mini? i.e. NOT an Intel mini? What does it say after "Processor:" in "About this Mac"?

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