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From: Jon B on 20 May 2010 05:50
Came to install XP yesterday on one of the Nvidia 9400 graphics Mac
Minis, on reboot to install XP it just black screened after 20 seconds
and that was it.

Tried Mini DVI-DVI, Mini DVI-VGA, Display Port - DVI, Display Port -
VGA, Sony 17" LCD, LG 17" WS LCD, Samsung 22" WS LCD, a projector...,
nada, same result each time.

Didn't have this issue with the old GMA MacMini, I know as I've got one
in the field I set up last year with the Sony 17" before sending it out.
Bit of a google suggests I'm not alone, and that it's down to the
monitors & graphics card not being able to display the correct
resolutions. Common theme was also "ultimately it was fine when plugged
into an Apple cinema display", which would be fine but we don't have
one. I will for a short time next week be an owner of a 23" Cinema, but
this machines got to be out for Friday, and I'm not intending on keeping
the cinema display either, so either way it's not a route out of this.

My fix ultimately was I've got a unibody MacBook mid setup here [1], so
whipped the HD out of the MacMini, bunged it into the MacBook, let it
install XP onto the HD and at the reboot stage powered down & switched
the drive back, so that XP didn't get to installing any drivers or
associating itself with any hardware. The GUI stage of XP does look able
to display itself on high street monitors via the Nvidia chipset.

[1] That's got an issue with Office 2004 & santa rose chipsets when you
click 'view show' with PowerPoint 2004, which again is not alone and
could be for another post...
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Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
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