I love that we have people who have no idea what "snow" is and have to be directed to a scene in the movie "Poltergeist" to understand it. I'm old (44) and I remember the snow between channels when we turned the knob on the TV. How much things have changed in so little time...
@nintenandryan : "If anytime a PC crash, and people a make video, it would be 70% of youtube content."
I suspect we have different sample sizes. I've worked in a datacenter with 120,000 servers -- ~80K Windows, 40K Unix. The Unix boxes crashed far more often than 1/3 of the total time, which means they're disproportionally less stable than Windows. {shrug}
I mean, I can tell you anecdotally that my 3 PCs crash less often combined than my 1 Mac, but that's not as good a sample as 80K v 40K.
@crazypenny94 : "what kind of sttupid person believes there is a snow crash?"
Umm... The kind of stupid person who made a live video of a snow crash happening, and whose Mac has a snow crash every 4-6 weeks or so?
Why are you saying I'm stupid to believe Mac snow crashes happen, when I've seen snow crashes with my own eyes, and have provided you with a video of a snow crash?
@crazypenny94 : "how is that a snowcrash? does it show snowflakes are something?"
Ah. No, what happens is, the whole screen is full of the kind of flickering, or static, that old TVs did. That was called, "snow." Google "tv snow," and you'll see some examples. You can also see it in the movie "Poltergeist."
Then, Neal Stephenson wrote a novel called "Snow Crash," because he'd seen Macintoshes in the mid-1990s do something similar -- the computer crashes, and all you see is "snow."
@jaketechwizard: "logic is gone" -- I guess that's why Apple replaced the MLB, as I've already mentioned, eh? However, even though I now have a new logic board, the machine still does it. So unless you want to say *two* logic boards had the exact same problem...
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In general: Yes, Apple did repairs, as I already reported. No, they haven't resolved the issue. It happens infrequently enough, and does little enough damage, I haven't followed up.
In fairness, I just this week took the system to the Genius Bar. They replaced the Main Logic Board or MLB (Apple's IBM-like TLA for what everyone else calls a motherboard). Now comes the waiting, given the intermittent nature of the problem. My receipt says this would have cost $617.81 had it not been covered by warranty, but it was, so... that's a good thing.
And if nothing else, I got to swap emails with Neal Stephenson about the story.
wow, my mac mini hasn't done that before. I think your mac mini is stuffed. You may need to ring apple or something, get them to fix it. I think its like a hardware issue maybe in your graphics card. But like u I just switched to macs so I would have no idea what the problem could be so I'm just guessing.
I love that we have people who have no idea what "snow" is and have to be directed to a scene in the movie "Poltergeist" to understand it. I'm old (44) and I remember the snow between channels when we turned the knob on the TV. How much things have changed in so little time...
fluffypinkandmoist 2 months ago
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Do you actually realise this is so rare that you felt the need to make a video about it?
If anytime a PC crash, and people a make video, it would be 70% of youtube content.
nintenandryan 1 year ago
@nintenandryan : "If anytime a PC crash, and people a make video, it would be 70% of youtube content."
I suspect we have different sample sizes. I've worked in a datacenter with 120,000 servers -- ~80K Windows, 40K Unix. The Unix boxes crashed far more often than 1/3 of the total time, which means they're disproportionally less stable than Windows. {shrug}
I mean, I can tell you anecdotally that my 3 PCs crash less often combined than my 1 Mac, but that's not as good a sample as 80K v 40K.
hbobrien 10 months ago
It could be an issue with the monitor, have you tried plugging something else into the monitor through the same connection?
EmoticonMayhem 1 year ago
@EmoticonMayhem : Yup. Many different things, all work fine. And the mac mini snow crashes with different monitors. So, that's not the variable.
hbobrien 1 year ago
This guy is clearly an idiot...
Tnoy34rt 1 year ago
@Tnoy34rt : OK, I'll bite - How so? Are you saying I faked the video? Or that you've seen Macs do this so often I shouldn't be surprised? Or what?
hbobrien 1 year ago 3
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crazypenny94 11 months ago
@crazypenny94 : "what kind of sttupid person believes there is a snow crash?"
Umm... The kind of stupid person who made a live video of a snow crash happening, and whose Mac has a snow crash every 4-6 weeks or so?
Why are you saying I'm stupid to believe Mac snow crashes happen, when I've seen snow crashes with my own eyes, and have provided you with a video of a snow crash?
hbobrien 10 months ago
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crazypenny94 10 months ago
@crazypenny94 : "how is that a snowcrash? does it show snowflakes are something?"
Ah. No, what happens is, the whole screen is full of the kind of flickering, or static, that old TVs did. That was called, "snow." Google "tv snow," and you'll see some examples. You can also see it in the movie "Poltergeist."
Then, Neal Stephenson wrote a novel called "Snow Crash," because he'd seen Macintoshes in the mid-1990s do something similar -- the computer crashes, and all you see is "snow."
hbobrien 10 months ago
@jaketechwizard: "logic is gone" -- I guess that's why Apple replaced the MLB, as I've already mentioned, eh? However, even though I now have a new logic board, the machine still does it. So unless you want to say *two* logic boards had the exact same problem...
*^*^*
In general: Yes, Apple did repairs, as I already reported. No, they haven't resolved the issue. It happens infrequently enough, and does little enough damage, I haven't followed up.
Looks cool, though. So it *must* be Apple.
hbobrien 1 year ago
logic is gone
jaketechwizard 2 years ago
In fairness, I just this week took the system to the Genius Bar. They replaced the Main Logic Board or MLB (Apple's IBM-like TLA for what everyone else calls a motherboard). Now comes the waiting, given the intermittent nature of the problem. My receipt says this would have cost $617.81 had it not been covered by warranty, but it was, so... that's a good thing.
And if nothing else, I got to swap emails with Neal Stephenson about the story.
hbobrien 2 years ago
Your computer has an identity crisis and thinks it's a TV! But if you could find some way to hook up an antenna to it it may not be totally useless.
IAmNotAFunguy 2 years ago
wow, my mac mini hasn't done that before. I think your mac mini is stuffed. You may need to ring apple or something, get them to fix it. I think its like a hardware issue maybe in your graphics card. But like u I just switched to macs so I would have no idea what the problem could be so I'm just guessing.
pcuser152 2 years ago
I submitted this to Slashdot. They rejected it. So, apparently, this happens on Macs so often it is not news.
hbobrien 2 years ago