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- Sep 3, 2010
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- Charlotte, NC
- Your Mac's Specs
- mid-2010 Mac Mini OS 10.12.6 Sierra, 2.66 GHz C2D, 8GB RAM, 30 in. Cinema Display
My computer specs are under my avatar. I suddenly began experiencing very slow start ups (several minutes) and lots of spinning beach balls. My computer had been running just fine and very suddenly all this mess starts happening. I had been threatening to perform a total wipe and clean install for quite some time and now it HAD to happen. Using install disk and Disk Utilities, I ran a Repair Disk and a couple of hdd problems were repaired. Then I ran a 7 pass wipe and did a clean install of SL 10.6. I am going to stay with Mac OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. It took a couple of tries before the install worked. When I went to update the OS to the SL 10.6.8 combo updater, there is no internet. Setting up the computer once again, a box popped up asking about internet connection. I have always used Ethernet…no network or router ever. The option to use Ethernet was grayed out and could not be selected. Airport was the only “selectable” option. So I selected it and moved on thinking I could change it later. After the OS installation, I went to run Software Updates and the computer will not connect to the internet. I called my ISP and they assured me they could see me and I had a connection and my service was fine. Still no connection. So the service guy came and verified that I was getting signal. We tried several Ethernet cables…they were fine. I have tried many times to configure the connection. I have reset the PRAM/SMC. I can use the computer to watch movies on iDVD, so that tells me the super drive is OK and the hdd is probably OK although several things were repaired as mentioned earlier. Could it be part of the logic board function? What else could possibly be tried? My computer is still covered by Apple Care.