My daughters Hackintoshed Mini10v was working great on 10.6.3. I had just run a backup on it a week ago, but now it will turn on but the screen is black.
I can hold down the power button to turn it off ( I hear a sound like a whistle running out, but no screen. Did a search, was told to hold the FN and power button to reset the hibernation file, then turn it on. No worky.

Unplugged and removed the battery, then held down the power button (supposed to reset the BIOS), plugged in power, turned it on, black screen.
Unplugged power, reattached battery, black screen.

Am I missing something here?

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San Antonio, TX (in the old city)

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

still have mine, but it doesn't get used. I "assume" that it still works!!!

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You might have more of a response here...

I have a small fleet of Mini 9s that I use daily (including right now) and ... confession ... I find it more useful on 10.6.7 than my iPad 3, though not as much fun to use.

Unfortunately I have not had the issue you're facing. How much is your time worth? You can find one in good condition on eBay for not much and be back to the races after you swap the SSD from your existing one.

My mini9 is still working - 3+ years.

I don't have a Dell mini, so not sure I can be of much help with this specific problem, but I will chime in and say I only gave up my various Atom hacks, because I could never manage to get 10.6.8 running smoothly. Stuck at 10.6.7. I have one 64-bit model, that should be able to run Lion, possibly even Mountain Lion, but I haven't bothered to make the jump. Will probably repurpose as HTPC running a Linux distro and XBMC. Better support on Linux.

Still have my mini9. Just got it back from loaning it out to a family member who needed something to do while in the hospital. I was using it for iTunes mostly. Still have not installed OS X though.

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Am I missing something here?

You mean, other than you're running Mac OS on a piece of junk?

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Rolando
Am I missing something here?

You mean, other than you're running Mac OS on a piece of junk?

See this post.

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San Antonio, TX (in the old city)

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

My mini10v is now out and about again after sitting on a shelf for over a year. It still works fine.

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Am I missing something here?

You mean, other than you're running Mac OS on a piece of junk?

As opposed to the iBooks with the bad GPU, the Titanium PowerBooks with flaking paint and bad hinges, and the plastic MacBooks with cracking cases?

Many people have posted how these hack Macs have served them well. No need to hate.



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I have one with has 10.6.7 on it and keep it in the closet. I had used it for a while but it was too darn slow to be reaLLY useful plus it wouldn't always start up correctly. I replaced it with a refurb 1st gen. MBA 11" which is soooo much better. I will put Ubuntu on it someday.

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Rolando
Am I missing something here?

You mean, other than you're running Mac OS on a piece of junk?

As opposed to the iBooks with the bad GPU, the Titanium PowerBooks with flaking paint and bad hinges, and the plastic MacBooks with cracking cases?

Many people have posted how these hack Macs have served them well. No need to hate.

Indeed. My Mini9 hasn't skipped a beat and tho I don't use it as much as I used to it's been a good machine.

Other than the crappy trackpad, my mini10v was good hardware (I liked the screen, keyboard, battery life).

Ran 10.6.1 great - installed a nice OS and let it be.

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No need to hate.

Not hating, just joshing. Chill baby chill.

Still have ours. Had to de-Hackintosh it last year so Mrs. cbelt3 could run an Active X web site for her work. Now that she's retired, she's switched to her iPhone and iPad because they are easier to use in bed, where her RA keeps her for much of the day.

Sad, really, because the Mini still has 2 years left on it's Sam's club warranty.

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Not hating, just joshing.

I apologize.

I still have a hot rod red mini 9. I use it occasionally when I need to re-program my Harmony 900 remote.

None of my (real) Macs will see the stupid thing. I know you can fix it, but it's easier to just whip out the mini.