Have you considered a fresh install of the operating system to see if that resolves the situation with the monitor connected by chance? You may have already but I didn't see it in the emails I read thus far, sorry if you tried already.
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kristeen Hughes Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 2:30 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: a note on running a Mini with no monitor Hello Mike and all, As you suggested, Mike, I opened up system information.app and my Mac Mini shows that it has a monitor connected. It's the same monitor that was connected before I tried running without one. I am totally at a loss. Today when I rebooted the system it ran even poorer than it did yesterday. Even with just finder running, it is slow and the speech can't say a single sentence without breaking up. Kristeen On Nov 26, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > This was my conclusion as well and in my old post I provided links to some > wiring schematics to make a VGA terminator. All the places I could find which > sold VGA terminators seem to no longer have them in stock. The sense pins > indicate what resolution the connected display is running and my assumption > was that with nothing connected the Mac polls continually for that > information but never gets it. It's hard to tell whether this happens at a > hardware level or some other API call which fails to return quickly because > it is waiting on the sense pin results which never come. > > CB > > On 11/26/12 11:54 AM, - wrote: >> >> It is interesting that a monitor without power previntes the mac system >> slowdown. This sounds as though the mac does a form of a ping to query from >> time to time what is attached. If it doesn't recieve a return signal >> instantly it does it again and/or waits for a determined time before >> allowing an application to resume activity. >> >> If this is the case, any return signal is not being generated by the monitor >> but the circuit is made at the socket and passes it back to the mac. It >> would then in principle be possible to find the wire pairs in the vga socket >> and make the return circuit absent a monitor. >> >> XB >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
