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OK, this is a biggie so grab a coffee, shisha, cigarrete or anything else you're acustomed to and be amazed and dazzled by my tale of woe...
My new Mac mini came the other day and I've been loving it (not literally but only because of willpower), until I adjusted the monitor settings, when I opened System Preferences and the Displays panel, it jumped to a resolution with a framerate which was incompatible with my monitor - I did nothing! I thought I could wait to see if it reverted back, so I left it for 10 minutes but nothing. I had no option but to force the power off. Every time I started the Mac, it's loading screen (Apple logo with spinning doo-dah) came up in what looked like 800x600 as soon as this screen passed, it flicked into the incompatible resolution. This happened repeatedly. I connected my mini to my partner's monitor - no problem, I set the desktop resolution to 800x600 at 60Hz, rebooted and it held the settings. By this time I was in need of coffee.
I put my mini back on my own monitor, started it up and.. you guessed it, it went back to the incompatible resolution, this went on from 11pm last night until this morning. I even tried this PRAM reset thing, no change. I have concluded that the Mac retains monitor specific data, so when I plugged my acursed monitor in, the little demon would go "ah haa! I am not playing with you!!"
I remembered from my old Mac OS 8 days that the CD could be booted, but the Panther DVD isn't like how I remember, there was no functional desktop and I could not see my HD, it just boots off the DVD and starts the Mac OSX installer. I was hoping for a monitor preferences file I could trash. I was not feeling the love..
First I tried to reinstall, by using the archiving of the existing system option. Took ages, didn't work. Same issue. This evening I had to loose all my emails and files (which I am furious about) and do a reformat and install.
My monitor now works.
BUT Despite my best efforts I cannot find AppleWorks, I have looked through the supplied optical disks and it simply is not there. Even though my partner and I got our Macs together the discs we got are different.
I have: "Mac OS X Install Disc 1 and Apple Hardware Test" and "Mac OS 9 Install Disc"
My partner has: "Mac OS X Install Disc 1 and Apple Hardware Test", "Mac OS 9 Install Disc" and "iLife 05 Install Disc" (which seems pointless as it's installed by the OS install disc)
I've searched thoroughly the file systems of each disc, no AppleWorks! Searching online shows I'm not the only one who has this problem, standard replies include 'it's on the install disk' etc. - it's not.
Question 1. Where is AppleWorks for the Mac mini (which will probably be different to other Mac's supplied discs).
Question 2. When a Mac get's the display settings wrong, how can you fix it? PRAM resets DO NOT fix it.
If anyone can help me I'll be so grateful, I'm quite stressed by it all....
My new Mac mini came the other day and I've been loving it (not literally but only because of willpower), until I adjusted the monitor settings, when I opened System Preferences and the Displays panel, it jumped to a resolution with a framerate which was incompatible with my monitor - I did nothing! I thought I could wait to see if it reverted back, so I left it for 10 minutes but nothing. I had no option but to force the power off. Every time I started the Mac, it's loading screen (Apple logo with spinning doo-dah) came up in what looked like 800x600 as soon as this screen passed, it flicked into the incompatible resolution. This happened repeatedly. I connected my mini to my partner's monitor - no problem, I set the desktop resolution to 800x600 at 60Hz, rebooted and it held the settings. By this time I was in need of coffee.
I put my mini back on my own monitor, started it up and.. you guessed it, it went back to the incompatible resolution, this went on from 11pm last night until this morning. I even tried this PRAM reset thing, no change. I have concluded that the Mac retains monitor specific data, so when I plugged my acursed monitor in, the little demon would go "ah haa! I am not playing with you!!"
I remembered from my old Mac OS 8 days that the CD could be booted, but the Panther DVD isn't like how I remember, there was no functional desktop and I could not see my HD, it just boots off the DVD and starts the Mac OSX installer. I was hoping for a monitor preferences file I could trash. I was not feeling the love..
First I tried to reinstall, by using the archiving of the existing system option. Took ages, didn't work. Same issue. This evening I had to loose all my emails and files (which I am furious about) and do a reformat and install.
My monitor now works.
BUT Despite my best efforts I cannot find AppleWorks, I have looked through the supplied optical disks and it simply is not there. Even though my partner and I got our Macs together the discs we got are different.
I have: "Mac OS X Install Disc 1 and Apple Hardware Test" and "Mac OS 9 Install Disc"
My partner has: "Mac OS X Install Disc 1 and Apple Hardware Test", "Mac OS 9 Install Disc" and "iLife 05 Install Disc" (which seems pointless as it's installed by the OS install disc)
I've searched thoroughly the file systems of each disc, no AppleWorks! Searching online shows I'm not the only one who has this problem, standard replies include 'it's on the install disk' etc. - it's not.
Question 1. Where is AppleWorks for the Mac mini (which will probably be different to other Mac's supplied discs).
Question 2. When a Mac get's the display settings wrong, how can you fix it? PRAM resets DO NOT fix it.
If anyone can help me I'll be so grateful, I'm quite stressed by it all....
