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Mac mini (Mid 2010) Take Apart — General Troubleshooting 17
2010-08-03
Functional Overview
Internal Speaker :
- no internal speaker sound
- distorted sound from internal
speaker
Heatsink Thermal Sensor :
- fan running fast
- intermittent shutdown
- system freezes
Power ON button :
(on opposite side of logic
board):
- no power on when button
is pressed
Backup Battery (on opposite
side of logic board) :
- lost date and time settings
- lost other settings
- no startup/video
ODD Thermal Sensor :
- fan running fast
- slower burning speed
- system freezes
Functional Overview:
Connector locations, and the
possible symptoms when cable is
disconnected, mis-connected or
shorted.
Ambient Thermal sensor :
- fan running fast
- system freezes
- intermittent shutdown
HD Thermal Sensor :
- fan running fast
- hard drive failure
- system freezes
Fan :
- not running or running fast
- system freezes
- intermittent shutdown
SATA Hard Drive :
- no HDD visible in profiler
- no boot from internal hard
drive
Airport/Bluetooth Card :
- cannot enable Bluetooth
- cannot enable AirPort
- kernel panic (when loading
wireless driver)
SATA Optical Drive
(or 2nd SATA Hard Drive):
- no ODD visible in profiler
- no boot from optical drive
- media does not insert
- no second HDD visible in
profiler
InfraRed Sensor + sleep
LED :
- no infrared reception
- no power ON (shorted
cable)
- no sleep led status.
Memory Modules:
- no boot
- system freeze or kernel panic
- video artifacts
Power Supply (on opposite
side of logic board):
- no power on
- intermittent shutdown
- fan running fast (power
supply thermal sensor not
read).