New Mac Mini with LED 24" LED Display

Spoke too soon. Multiple screen blackouts on startup today. Had to unplug and then re-connect the display to get it to behave. The curse of new technology still there. Come on apple, give us a fix for this.

My new Mac Mini Server seems to work fine. The other day I got one flicker and at two instances I have seen two blackouts but at all times that has occurred when using Citrix and I think it is unimportant. Still thing the AMD configuration seems to be the main problem. Stollo knocking on wood though.

Strangely enough, for the past few days, having put in a 3m mini display extension cable between my 24" apple LED cinema display and my new thunderbolt mac mini, the screen problems have all but disappeared. I think just 1 brief blackout in a week, as opposed to getting repeated 1-2 second blackouts multiple times per day. As things are now, I can live with this. Would suggest anyone with this problem gives this solution a try. Can get the cables from apple, eBay or amazon.

Rob

Hi all, there is a brand new iodate for the ACD24. This seems to fix the problem.

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Tell if it works for you too.

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Great, thanks for the news.

My monitor is at work, so no testing for the moment, but will update asap.

Strange enough this update don't show up when I search the Apple support page..

Just installed. Screen shaking when starting. Blacked out two times during the update (rebooting?). Now stable. Since it sometimes goes away for a few hours will have to wait and see if it is a full fix.

Thanks for the link!

It's even worst with new 27" Thunderbolt display!

I get the feeling you people would take a random drug if someone on the street gave it to you- because that is what you just did with your monitors.

@meraTechStuff - it even says 24" on the URL and the dmg! [I think you mean worse]

Unless there is an official Apple update page be very weary about updating firmware. A little bird told me that these firmware updates are specific to particular series of monitors.

Hello all,

I got this update from Apple's 2nd level support. I have an open ticket since quite a while and called them probably 10 times in 2 months. This afternoon I received a phone call from them telling me that the problem was still under investigation but no solution was found yet. A few hours later I received a mail with the link I've posted previously. (attached mail in french....)

I have to say that so far I had absolutely no flickering. I use to have flickering for around 5 minutes at start up or when resuming from sleeping mode.

Hope this will work for more people.

My config:

Mac mini i7 2.7 GHz

8 Gb RAM

AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256 MB

ACD24 2009

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Glad it seems to work for you too !

My monitor freaked out imediately after the firmware fix was applied. But after a reboot and cycle of the monitor, the flickering is 100% gone. The fix works fantastic for me.

I mean, Mac mini (mid 2011 2.5GHz model) is not working properly even with 27" Thunderbolt display. The screen flickers upon connecting Thunderbolt cable to Mac mini.