Ok, let's try this. Again, go to your utilities folder and open activity monitor. Is anything in there consuming a large amount of processor resources? Sometimes left over print jobs can do this. On Nov 26, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Kristeen Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Mike and all, > As you suggested, Mike, I opened up system information.app and my Mac Mini > shows that it has a monitor connected. It's the same monitor that was > connected before I tried running without one. I am totally at a loss. Today > when I rebooted the system it ran even poorer than it did yesterday. Even > with just finder running, it is slow and the speech can't say a single > sentence without breaking up. > > Kristeen > > On Nov 26, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This was my conclusion as well and in my old post I provided links to some >> wiring schematics to make a VGA terminator. All the places I could find >> which sold VGA terminators seem to no longer have them in stock. The sense >> pins indicate what resolution the connected display is running and my >> assumption was that with nothing connected the Mac polls continually for >> that information but never gets it. It's hard to tell whether this happens >> at a hardware level or some other API call which fails to return quickly >> because it is waiting on the sense pin results which never come. >> >> CB >> >> On 11/26/12 11:54 AM, - wrote: >>> >>> It is interesting that a monitor without power previntes the mac system >>> slowdown. This sounds as though the mac does a form of a ping to query from >>> time to time what is attached. If it doesn't recieve a return signal >>> instantly it does it again and/or waits for a determined time before >>> allowing an application to resume activity. >>> >>> If this is the case, any return signal is not being generated by the >>> monitor but the circuit is made at the socket and passes it back to the >>> mac. It would then in principle be possible to find the wire pairs in the >>> vga socket and make the return circuit absent a monitor. >>> >>> XB >>> >> >> -- >> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
