Chosen Solution
Hello all, This is my very first post on the forum. I always wanted to have an Apple computer and I like fixing stuff, so I went on Ebay and bought a 2011 Apple Mac Mini that chimes, but won’t post. Being a Windows guy I struggled to troubleshoot what was wrong but still decided to give it a go. I reset the SMC and PRAM, as advised with no success. After this, I opened it up and removed the hard drive, to see if at least would show on the screen the famous folder with the question mark. Nothing showed up. I changed the RAM, and while changing it, I powered on the Mac mini with no RAM and it gave me that mono beep complaining of no RAM was detected. That’s why I still believe there’s some live in this thing because it can detected if there’s RAM, it chimes and it powers on my keyboard and mouse. I replaced the PRAM battery (but used one) but still no video output. At this point I ran out of ideas… Also, I noticed that as soon as I power it on, the motherboard gets weirdly hot. Not crazy hot, but too hot for something that it’s not under load. Is there anything else I could try that I am missing? Thank you very much in advance or your help. Regards, John
Sadly, the Macmini5,2 uses a Radeon HD 6630M GPU which the logic board encounters an issue with one of its tantalum caps similar to the C9560 the MacBook Pro 2010 had. This will take some micro-soldering skills to replace.
