Hi,
I have a Mac Mini, early 2010, running Snow Leopard with all updates installed.
I have a strange problem which I haven't found exactly reproduced anywhere else, hence this post.
Generally, it runs well, but it sometimes gets into a cycle of doing the following: when I switch on in the morning, it stalls on the boot screen with the Apple logo and the wheel spinning - it just stays like this until I power it off by pressing and holding the power switch. When I start it again, it boots normally.
It has just started doing this again: I haven't added any new peripherals, or applied any updates. Onyx told me that the start-up disk needed repairing, so I ran Disk Repair and it reported it had corrected the fault. The same pattern showed itself again afterwards though. I've run the hardware test, which says everything is OK; I've tried unplugging all the peripherals and plugging them back in one by one - there is a flaw to this, though, which is that the fault always fixes itself on second boot, so not sure how useful this has been.
I only have Dropbox and ClamXav sentry in Login items.
Anyone have any ideas about this?
Thanks in anticipation
I have a Mac Mini, early 2010, running Snow Leopard with all updates installed.
I have a strange problem which I haven't found exactly reproduced anywhere else, hence this post.
Generally, it runs well, but it sometimes gets into a cycle of doing the following: when I switch on in the morning, it stalls on the boot screen with the Apple logo and the wheel spinning - it just stays like this until I power it off by pressing and holding the power switch. When I start it again, it boots normally.
It has just started doing this again: I haven't added any new peripherals, or applied any updates. Onyx told me that the start-up disk needed repairing, so I ran Disk Repair and it reported it had corrected the fault. The same pattern showed itself again afterwards though. I've run the hardware test, which says everything is OK; I've tried unplugging all the peripherals and plugging them back in one by one - there is a flaw to this, though, which is that the fault always fixes itself on second boot, so not sure how useful this has been.
I only have Dropbox and ClamXav sentry in Login items.
Anyone have any ideas about this?
Thanks in anticipation
