Hello,
Done some reviewing of these threads and other sites. Most of what I find is older (4+ months old). My mac mini, late 2014 model, 16 gb memory, 1 TB SSD drive. Begins to show the beach ball icon "progressively", i.e. starts with one app, then more and more apps, then the system is unavailable. I cannot get to the apple icon. My blue tooth mouse and keyboard are on responsive. I have a second usb logitech mouse installed too, which I can still move around. I cannot restart anything. I can force quit apps with the mouse.
I have run disk utility, finds nothing. Strangely, I have tried to run the apple diags, using the power up boot with holding D, but I get an error -- something 850 error -- like it cannot mount something. But, if I power cycle, it reboots.
My system is in this state now, clock is working, I can move the 2nd mouse around, but the beach ball is present. Only way I get out of this is to power cycle. I can go a few minutes to a few days between reboots until the beach ball symptoms show up.
Any ideas? I think I will try to get to bottom of why I cannot run the built in apple hardware test. Maybe I have bad memory?? But, I would think the mac mini would crash or totally freeze (clock stops, no mouse movement) if I had a had memory module if the OS tried to use that part of the memory.
Done some reviewing of these threads and other sites. Most of what I find is older (4+ months old). My mac mini, late 2014 model, 16 gb memory, 1 TB SSD drive. Begins to show the beach ball icon "progressively", i.e. starts with one app, then more and more apps, then the system is unavailable. I cannot get to the apple icon. My blue tooth mouse and keyboard are on responsive. I have a second usb logitech mouse installed too, which I can still move around. I cannot restart anything. I can force quit apps with the mouse.
I have run disk utility, finds nothing. Strangely, I have tried to run the apple diags, using the power up boot with holding D, but I get an error -- something 850 error -- like it cannot mount something. But, if I power cycle, it reboots.
My system is in this state now, clock is working, I can move the 2nd mouse around, but the beach ball is present. Only way I get out of this is to power cycle. I can go a few minutes to a few days between reboots until the beach ball symptoms show up.
Any ideas? I think I will try to get to bottom of why I cannot run the built in apple hardware test. Maybe I have bad memory?? But, I would think the mac mini would crash or totally freeze (clock stops, no mouse movement) if I had a had memory module if the OS tried to use that part of the memory.
