No display from Mini on PC Monitor
Hi,
Can anyone help me please? I picked up a used Mac Mini for a little project I'm involved and as a way to test out Apple computing (I'm a complete Apple newb). I got a mini vga cable to connect my old (ish) PC monitor. I can here the Mini boot up (I get the chime) but I'm not getting any signal on the monitor. I saw a thread on a similar line to this but the only answer to the query was to disconnect the monitor and reboot the mini, then reconnect the monitor. I tried this and it didn't work. I know the monitor works fine (I've been running my laptop off it) so can't understand why I can't get the mini to display on the screen.
Would be grateful for any ideas.
Thanks,
Andy
That's a late 2006 originally shipped with a square block DVI to VGA adapter.
also see > http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Mac_mini_Early_2006_Users_Guide.pdf
Are you using that adapter or an after market one with a pig tail?
for example: > Micro Center - Apple DVI to VGA Adapter M8754G/A
For testing purposes you might try another DVI to VGA adapter, cable and monitor. But personally I would try a barrowed DVI cable and DVI monitor connected straight to the DVI port before buying another DVI to VGA adapter.
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