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Apple Investigating Issue With 'Pink Squares' Appearing on Displays Connected to M1 Mac Mini
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yikes. You used to spend the extra cash because you knew you were getting a different , high quality tier of products. My ultra garbage tier plastic Lenovo outputs a perfect 1440p 165hz signal with its crippled intel GPU. What a joke
Hi Robert,
I got that full on pink screen as well, on both monitor and laptop. Had it a few times in succession. It was a full crash, rebooted and asked if I wanted to send report to Apple.
1st time was when I accidentally knocked the usb-c lead from the hub to the mba.
Follow on times was random for a few days.
In the end I left overnight, powered on, for it to do its 1st overnight maintenance, indexing etc. This was the 1st time since got the mba, 2 months ago.
been fine ever since, including the safari beach ball thing as well.
regards
Martin
This is why I said 4 months ago being an early adopter of technology is not always a good thing. My 2019 MacBook Pro 16 has been running like a champ for 16 months with zero technical problems. Oh and I love using a Razer EGPU box and a Nvidia 3080 video card, graphics are amazing on bootcamp and windows 10. So I boot between the two operating systems with no problems at all.
I don't understand the reasoning of those saying this is 'certainly' software.
Every M1 user has the same software, so if it is software everyone should see it.
Hardware is more fickle and flaws can be revealed only under certain conditions such as thermal stress etc and can still manifest in ways that appear to be software related. Display glitches that change as display elements are manipulated or resolve temporarily are classic GPU fault symptoms.
Ask anyone who had an iMac with a GPU fault pre 2012.
Every M1 user has the same software, so if it is software everyone should see it.
Hardware is more fickle and flaws can be revealed only under certain conditions such as thermal stress etc and can still manifest in ways that appear to be software related. Display glitches that change as display elements are manipulated or resolve temporarily are classic GPU fault symptoms.
Ask anyone who had an iMac with a GPU fault pre 2012.
Well 'likely' isn't 'certainly', but in my experience GPU faults tend to get progressively worse and fast, you can't really keep using a computer with a "slightly bad" GPU for months. Additionally the glitches would be exacerbated by GPU intensive tasks rather than going away a few seconds after boot.
Not necessarily. Combination of type of external monitor, additional software running, type of cable, and more. Even purely software related issues don’t show up 100% of the time. It all depends on other things running on the computer.
People seem to forget that drivers are software. Have you heard of DDU? Sometimes driver issues happen and cause all sorts of issues. Even on Windows. I had to use DDU a few times because I got severely odd issues with my GPUs that might seem like faulty hardware. But I did a DDU and had no more issues.
How’d you get TDM to work? I have a 27” 2011 iMac that supports TDM via thunderbolt 1 on high Sierra. Can’t get it to work with my M1 mini. Using genuine apple usbC->thunderbolt adaptor and cable.
Hi,
I have encountered a different problem, after my Mini Mac M1 is in sleep mode, and then awaken, my monitor's screen turns into noise effect. See picture attached. After few attempts of swithcing monitor on and off comes back to normal desktop. Monitor CS24 Eizo, HDMI connection. Mac Mini 16GB RAM.
cheers,
Lech
I have encountered a different problem, after my Mini Mac M1 is in sleep mode, and then awaken, my monitor's screen turns into noise effect. See picture attached. After few attempts of swithcing monitor on and off comes back to normal desktop. Monitor CS24 Eizo, HDMI connection. Mac Mini 16GB RAM.
cheers,
Lech
