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We have a Mac Mini in our house doing nothing much so, since it's a shame to waste it like that, I was thinking of using it like an Apple TV (as much as possible anyway). We have a Mini-DVI to VGA adapter already, but I can't find a VGI to Video adapter for sale (from Apple anyway). So, does that mean I need to get a Mini-DVI to DVI adapter as well as a DVI to Video one? I just wanted to see if anyone else has this kind of set-up, if it works okay with two adapters connected to each other and whether a widescreen signal is supported through the S-video output. It's quite an old TV we'd use it on (not HD) so an HDMI adapter is not an option I'm afraid.

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You may have a difficult time. There is a mini-DVI to video adapter in the Apple Store, but folks report that it does not work with the '09 minis. They are reporting that it is because the '09 minis do not do analog video. This is not true because you can get both a m-DVI to VGA and a m-DP to VGA adapter, which are analog. I think that it may have more to do with the content providers forcing Apple to up the copy protection standards in the newer Macs and this older adapter is not up to standard.

Sorry about that David. I have a 2009, 2.53GHz Mac mini. I used a mini displayport to VGA adapter to plug the Mac mini into the MonoPrice converter. Then I plugged in a composite (RCA) cable from the converter to the tv. (When I first posted, I had forgotten that I had used the composite RCA to hook up the mini as my TV has only one S-Video port, and I had hooked up a DVD player to that). Both the composite cable and an S-Video cable come with the MonoPrice converter, so you can use whichever port is available on your tv.

They also supply a VGA cable, and a USB cable. It may sound confusing, but once you get the converter you will see that it’s really very simple. Once you’re plugged in and start up the Mac, you can adjust the screen resolution in System Preferences to whatever looks best on your TV. I found that on my TV 1024 x 768, 60Hz looks good. The converter also has some fine tuning controls that you can adjust. Mac mini mini displayport to VGA female adapter/VGA cable MonoPrice converter.

Then from converter composite RCA (or S-Video) cable TV. For audio, just a simple Y audio cable from the Mac mini audio port to L/R audio ports on the TV. Then for power to the converter the provided USB cable from the converter to the mini. MonoPrice converter: $27.51 Mini displayport to VGA adapter: $13.47 Y audio cable: $5 or $6 bucks on Amazon.

(I had an old one in a drawer at home), and you’re good to go. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

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Hi, I've noticed that after my nMP in OS X goes to sleep due to inactivity, every now and then it won't send a video signal / wake up the monitor, once I wake the nMP itself. I know the machine is 'awake' as I've managed to open additional tabs in Safari for example, which I was able to view after switching the machine off and turning it back on again. This problem doesn't happen after I put it to sleep through the Apple menu and it never happens when running Windows.

Anyone else experiencing this? Any solutions? Is this another symptom of Apple's poor video drivers? Hi, I've noticed that after my nMP in OS X goes to sleep due to inactivity, every now and then it won't send a video signal / wake up the monitor, once I wake the nMP itself. I know the machine is 'awake' as I've managed to open additional tabs in Safari for example, which I was able to view after switching the machine off and turning it back on again. This problem doesn't happen after I put it to sleep through the Apple menu and it never happens when running Windows. Anyone else experiencing this?

Any solutions? Is this another symptom of Apple's poor video drivers? Hi, I've noticed that after my nMP in OS X goes to sleep due to inactivity, every now and then it won't send a video signal / wake up the monitor, once I wake the nMP itself. I know the machine is 'awake' as I've managed to open additional tabs in Safari for example, which I was able to view after switching the machine off and turning it back on again. This problem doesn't happen after I put it to sleep through the Apple menu and it never happens when running Windows. Anyone else experiencing this? Any solutions?

Is this another symptom of Apple's poor video drivers? Click to expand.It's a bit hit and miss. The monitor will wake up sometimes from a key or mouse button press, other times it won't. But only if the machine went to sleep because of non-use. If I put it to sleep via the Apple menu, both computer and monitor always wake up.

The last few times I've had more luck with pressing the function keys mapped to the volume controls for waking up the monitor. Haven't tried this enough to confirm that it's a potential solution versus just coincidence. Going forward I may connect it via one of the Thunderbolt ports but I've been working a lot from home due to the bad winter weather and it's been awfully nice to be able to have both the Mac and the work laptop (which only supports DisplayPort) connected to the monitor at the same time.

Same problem with Displayport I am having an almost identical problem, but I am not using HDMI. I have three monitors hooked up. The middle one is a 2560 x 1440 display with Displayport. It is connected through a Displyport to miniDP cable. The other two are 1920 x 1080 monitors with DVI output.

They are connected via active DVI to miniDP adapters. When the computer goes to sleep due to inactivity, upon waking up the two side monitors come on but the center one does not. Toggling the power switch or the source button does no good.

If the video cable itself is disconnected and reconnected, then the monitor comes on. If I put the computer to sleep myself and wait for the monitors to go into low power mode, then wake the computer up, there is no problem. So, this sounds like the identical problem. While the monitor is in this state, if I pull up the Display control panel in one of the other monitors, the panels come up, including the panel for the blank monitor, but its panel comes up on one of the other monitors! The arrangement shown is the correct three monitor arrangement. So, the computer seems to be aware that there are three monitors present, but it also seems to be aware that the center one is not functional, since it brings that monitor's panel up on another monitor (something that never happens when the center monitor is operating normally).

Here is one possibly relevant detail. There is a technical note from Apple on attaching displays to the Mac Pro that shows the six Thunderbolt ports as belonging in pairs to three video 'buses'. They suggest plugging multiple monitors into separate busses when possible. Well I did that. The center monitor is plugged into bus '0' which is the two bottom Thunderbolt ports. The diagram in the technical note shows the HDMI port as also belonging to this bus. So, it is possible that the problem is localized to this bus.

I will test this theory by switching the connections and seeing if the problem moves to a different monitor. I'll have to wait for the computer to go to sleep by itself to conduct the test. I've been having the same problem with my Thunderbolt Display going dark-grey and not waking up. I've tried SMC and PRAM resets to no avail, and even reinstalled OSX at AppleCare's suggestion.

Then came also this past week's firmware update. Things went OK for a few days, but this morning the display went dark-grey again and couldn't be brought back up.

I sometimes switch to running Windows 8.1 from a 'BootCamp' partition on an external HD to play with my Trainz game (and for no other purpose ). I've gotten into the habit of doing the PRAM reset when rebooting OS X, only didn't do that on the last occasion. Could that be it? Meanwhile, if it happens again to me, then I'll try reinserting the cable from the Thunderbolt Display.

I am having an almost identical problem, but I am not using HDMI. I have three monitors hooked up. The middle one is a 2560 x 1440 display with Displayport. It is connected through a Displyport to miniDP cable. The other two are 1920 x 1080 monitors with DVI output.

They are connected via active DVI to miniDP adapters. When the computer goes to sleep due to inactivity, upon waking up the two side monitors come on but the center one does not. Toggling the power switch or the source button does no good.

If the video cable itself is disconnected and reconnected, then the monitor comes on. If I put the computer to sleep myself and wait for the monitors to go into low power mode, then wake the computer up, there is no problem.

So, this sounds like the identical problem. While the monitor is in this state, if I pull up the Display control panel in one of the other monitors, the panels come up, including the panel for the blank monitor, but its panel comes up on one of the other monitors! The arrangement shown is the correct three monitor arrangement. So, the computer seems to be aware that there are three monitors present, but it also seems to be aware that the center one is not functional, since it brings that monitor's panel up on another monitor (something that never happens when the center monitor is operating normally). Here is one possibly relevant detail.

There is a technical note from Apple on attaching displays to the Mac Pro that shows the six Thunderbolt ports as belonging in pairs to three video 'buses'. They suggest plugging multiple monitors into separate busses when possible. Well I did that. The center monitor is plugged into bus '0' which is the two bottom Thunderbolt ports.

The diagram in the technical note shows the HDMI port as also belonging to this bus. So, it is possible that the problem is localized to this bus. I will test this theory by switching the connections and seeing if the problem moves to a different monitor. I'll have to wait for the computer to go to sleep by itself to conduct the test. Click to expand.I posted about this same issue a few weeks ago and no one seemed to have a solution. I too am using a Displayport to miniDP cable and whenever I put the display to sleep using a hot corner, the display refuses to wake up.

When on, the display's power light is blue, and when asleep its amber. When I wake the display by moving the mouse or pressing a key, the light goes from amber to blue and then back to amber, then blue, etc. The only solution is to turn the display off and back on or unplug the miniDP cable from the back of the nMP. I too have tried PRAM and SMC resets as well as different ports on the nMP. The only thing I can think of is that pre 10.9.2, the computer didn't have this issue, it only started after installing 10.9.3.

So maybe some driver or something was changed? Same Issue I have a nMP and an NEC LCD2690WUXi monitor. When I first brought the nMP home, it worked fine. Then I started having issues similar to what others describe. The computer would go to sleep and the monitor light would turn to amber. When I hit the trackpad, the light would turn blue and then, after a few seconds turn back to amber and stay there.

By some happenstance, I learned that pulling the thunderbolt adapter out of one port and plugging it in another resulted in the monitor working again. If I pulled it out and plugged it back in the same port, it would not work. I have just had the nMP in the shop for a week. They ran some software and hardware testing and found a 'sleep' error once. They have now completely re-installed the OS.

I brought it home today only to find it started up doing the same thing again. Previously, I had done the pram reset which seemed to work for a few hours and then it started up again. I share everyone's frustration considering the cost of the computer. I am not sure what to do next other than to exchange it for a loaded iMac. I bought the nMP because of its upgradability.

I would love to hear what others think. I have a nMP and an NEC LCD2690WUXi monitor. When I first brought the nMP home, it worked fine. Then I started having issues similar to what others describe. The computer would go to sleep and the monitor light would turn to amber. When I hit the trackpad, the light would turn blue and then, after a few seconds turn back to amber and stay there. By some happenstance, I learned that pulling the thunderbolt adapter out of one port and plugging it in another resulted in the monitor working again.

If I pulled it out and plugged it back in the same port, it would not work. I have just had the nMP in the shop for a week. They ran some software and hardware testing and found a 'sleep' error once. They have now completely re-installed the OS. I brought it home today only to find it started up doing the same thing again.

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Previously, I had done the pram reset which seemed to work for a few hours and then it started up again. I share everyone's frustration considering the cost of the computer.

I am not sure what to do next other than to exchange it for a loaded iMac. I bought the nMP because of its upgradability. I would love to hear what others think. Hi, I've noticed that after my nMP in OS X goes to sleep due to inactivity, every now and then it won't send a video signal / wake up the monitor, once I wake the nMP itself. I know the machine is 'awake' as I've managed to open additional tabs in Safari for example, which I was able to view after switching the machine off and turning it back on again. This problem doesn't happen after I put it to sleep through the Apple menu and it never happens when running Windows.

Anyone else experiencing this? Any solutions? Is this another symptom of Apple's poor video drivers? Click to expand.Hi, I have an early 2015 MacBook Air and have the identical issue.

Was wondering if any of you had found a definite fix or workaround. I have tried everything here and have also spent some time with Apple support on this. I personally believe it's related specifically to HDMI.

I am using an HP 2311x monitor which probably has some early HDMI version and surely has some quirks of it's own. I have tried two TB to HDMI adapters and with the Belkin brand it seems to fail less but once in a while it fails to wake up the monitor exactly as stated by others here. What is so frustrating about this issue is that is completely random. So I am wondering if anyone has tried TB to DVI or VGA and see if we can narrow it down to HDMI? Also which system logs exactly can we monitor? My hunch is that the TB to HDMI adapters are probably mostly crap and that HDMI quirks in the Apple hw as well as the monitors don't help.

Maybe the DVI signaling is less prone to these problems? I don't know enough about the differences between HDMI and DVI but there is certainly a problem here and would be worthwhile to find some sort of workaround for the very many people having this.very. frustrating and random problem. Finally, do you think a native Apple Thunderbolt monitor would also have these issues? I am so frustrated with this issue that I wouldn't mind buying an outrageously expensive Apple monitor if there was.any. guarantee it would work fine with TB directly. But not even Apple support could guarantee that to me so far!

Hi, I have an early 2015 MacBook Air and have the identical issue. Was wondering if any of you had found a definite fix or workaround.

I have tried everything here and have also spent some time with Apple support on this. I personally believe it's related specifically to HDMI. I am using an HP 2311x monitor which probably has some early HDMI version and surely has some quirks of it's own. I have tried two TB to HDMI adapters and with the Belkin brand it seems to fail less but once in a while it fails to wake up the monitor exactly as stated by others here.

What is so frustrating about this issue is that is completely random. So I am wondering if anyone has tried TB to DVI or VGA and see if we can narrow it down to HDMI? Also which system logs exactly can we monitor? My hunch is that the TB to HDMI adapters are probably mostly crap and that HDMI quirks in the Apple hw as well as the monitors don't help. Maybe the DVI signaling is less prone to these problems? I don't know enough about the differences between HDMI and DVI but there is certainly a problem here and would be worthwhile to find some sort of workaround for the very many people having this.very. frustrating and random problem.

Finally, do you think a native Apple Thunderbolt monitor would also have these issues? I am so frustrated with this issue that I wouldn't mind buying an outrageously expensive Apple monitor if there was.any. guarantee it would work fine with TB directly.

But not even Apple support could guarantee that to me so far!