Mac Mini 2018
Hi. Underneath the black under-padding of the Mac Mini is a metal plate with a small, thin, round black device that has the wifi logo.
If you try to take off the metal plate, you’ll find that the wifi-device has a cable running through the other side, and connects to the logic board.
If I were to disconnect that cable from the logic board, would the machine still run?
The reason I am asking is because I tried to upgrade my RAM. But I accidentally ripped the antenna socket right off the logic board (while I was trying to simply unplug it). That’s one problem, and I have a scheduled appointment with a tech guy.
But the second problem is that my machine no longer boots. The power light comes on. But my monitors stay black. Then you hear a dying “puff” of the exhaust, like the final breath of a deer you shot in the woods, and the light goes out. A few moments later, the light turns back on and the cycle repeats.
As far as I would guess (and I’m no techgician), the Mini should still work perfectly, minus the lack of wifi (which would be overcome with an ethernet cable anyway).
Briefly describing these symptoms to my tech guy over the phone, he said it sounds like a SECOND issue is going on. That is, I flunked at least two parts of this RAM upgrade, not just one. The first being the rippage of the antenna socket, and the second being a mystery.
Would anyone here have insight? Do you think these are one issue, or two? Shouldn’t the unit still run, albeit without wifi, assuming I did everything else correctly?
Clever jokes and snobby “you shouldn’t’a done that” answers are welcome. I can’t wait to count how many “brick” jokes come through.
Cheers!
Hi. Underneath the black under-padding of the Mac Mini is a metal plate with a small, thin, round black device that has the wifi logo.
If you try to take off the metal plate, you’ll find that the wifi-device has a cable running through the other side, and connects to the logic board.
If I were to disconnect that cable from the logic board, would the machine still run?
The reason I am asking is because I tried to upgrade my RAM. But I accidentally ripped the antenna socket right off the logic board (while I was trying to simply unplug it). That’s one problem, and I have a scheduled appointment with a tech guy.
But the second problem is that my machine no longer boots. The power light comes on. But my monitors stay black. Then you hear a dying “puff” of the exhaust, like the final breath of a deer you shot in the woods, and the light goes out. A few moments later, the light turns back on and the cycle repeats.
As far as I would guess (and I’m no techgician), the Mini should still work perfectly, minus the lack of wifi (which would be overcome with an ethernet cable anyway).
Briefly describing these symptoms to my tech guy over the phone, he said it sounds like a SECOND issue is going on. That is, I flunked at least two parts of this RAM upgrade, not just one. The first being the rippage of the antenna socket, and the second being a mystery.
Would anyone here have insight? Do you think these are one issue, or two? Shouldn’t the unit still run, albeit without wifi, assuming I did everything else correctly?
Clever jokes and snobby “you shouldn’t’a done that” answers are welcome. I can’t wait to count how many “brick” jokes come through.
Cheers!
