I don't have a printer anywhere on the network. I have tried to use the activity monitor, but the computer is so constantly busy, that I can't get anything understandable from speech. It breaks up after a syllable or two.
I do appreciate the continued suggestions. Kristeen On Nov 26, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
