Hi Jim

On 17 Jul 2012, at 12:57, Jim Noseworthy <[email protected]> 
wrote:

I purchased the unit pre-configured.  I did, however remove the 4 GBs of ram
and installed 8 GB. The server is a twin HD machine.

Right!  Apple is doing a lot of funny things with hardware verification 
nowadays.  If you buy something non-Apple, there is a possibility that you'll 
get problems.  However, we ourselves bought memory from Crucial as I refuse to 
pay Apple's inflated prices.  But you do have to be very very careful that you 
install the exact right DIM modules or the machine will sulk.

For the record though, this computer is not being utalized as a server; I
just liked that particular configuration.

yes, I understand that.  All the same, you shouldn't be getting those monitor 
problems, we are not.  We have a stack of 9 Mac Minis, 8 of which are mid/late 
2011 models, plus one mid 2009 model.  Not a single one of them complains about 
no monitor being connected.

So, which video adapter does your particular machine have?  Which OS is it 
running, I would assume Lion?  Have you actually ran the Server.app or should I 
say did you go through the server setup when you first installed it?  I think 
there are ways of avoiding that, but I'd have to check.

I admit I'm intrigued by your problem because, as I say, all of our mid/late 
2011 models work perfectly with no monitor.

Have you tried reinstalling the OS using something like the Lion Recovery tool?

I know you're not running it as a server.  But it is supposed to be a server 
configuration.  The whole point of a Server is that they can be administered 
remotely as well as locally.  Therefore, it stands to reason that they wouldn't 
always necessarily have an active display.  Just one last question.  Did you 
plug in the HDMI/DVI adapter?  If not, you might like to try that.

Gordon

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