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Recently, I've gone through the trouble of replacing the hard drive on my Mac with the model A1174, which the Internet says is a iMac 'Core Duo' 2.0 20-Inch Early 2006. Needless to say that I do not have the install discs for it anymore! But I do have another Mac computer, so I followed these directions to create a boot USB but did the same thing for Yosemite:
When I plug the USB drive in and boot it up, I still get the blinking questionmarked folder. When I press the Option button to try and get into Startup Manager, it does nothing.
- Did I do something wrong making the USB drive, or are these Macsnotorious for not wanting to boot off of USB?
- Why wouldn't thecomputer then boot into Startup Manager anyway?
- Is there like a BIOSscreen where I can see that I successfully installed the hard drive?
- Will this require an install disc after all and how will I know that it'll work?
Thanks so much.
1 Answer
Yosemite is not supported on the Early 2006 iMac - it can only go up to Snow Leopard v10.6. You will either need to order a set of restore discs for this particular system (as discs do not necessarily work between models, make sure to get the right ones) or find a retail copy of either Tiger (Make sure it is newer than 10.4.6), Leopard or Snow Leopard.
You can find retail copies of the discs on eBay or other various sites. There is a remote chance that you may be able to order the recovery media through Apple's phone support - we used to do it when I worked for Applecare - but due to the age it is less likely that they would have it and/or would have shipping times under 2wks.
It is highly recommended that you opt right for the Snow Leopard retail DVD as there is no upgrade path from Tiger -> Snow Leopard for free.
EDIT: To answer your questions in order:
- The operating system you made the drive from is not supported on your computer by a few generations, likely causing the issue. Booting from USB is supported on your machine
- There is no operating system, recovery system, really anything to support booting into from your disk selector
- No, not directly. The closest you would get would be Single user mode, which is just an extension of the operating system itself. Through there, you could use
diskutilto see if the drive was recognized. Again, this would require the OS already be installed. - Yes, and it won't be known until you have it in your hands. Be careful about the disks you get, and if in doubt, buy the retail edition.
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I've tried everything I could to get the sound working. I've tried to install the drivers from the Snow Leopard disk, then I went and got the latest RealTek drivers from the RealTek website. Then I read that old Mac mini's could have an integrated Cirrus chip, and I tried to grab the latest driver from the website, and it appeared to install, but nothing.
There's also nothing listed under Sound and ... in the Device Manager. I've tried to manually include a legacy driver, which worked for RealTek but not for the Cirrus driver. Of course it said there was no RealTek hardware install, which makes me think it's a Cirrus chip.
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Any further suggestions or thoughts would be really appreciated.
This is a Mac Mini 1.66. I'm also not sure how to be able to detect what card is integrated into the system, so that would be helpful too (remembering that there's no driver installed). Even just to get the chip type would be great to confirm.
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Try updating the sound drivers to the latest Realtek drivers.
I had to use the second link to get the realtek site to actually work.
John OxleyMac Mini User's Manual Early 2006 Audi
John OxleyThe only solution I was able to make work was getting a USB audio card. Specifically I got the Creative Blaster x-fi Pro
To identify the device - find out its PCI Vendor and Product IDs, then google up the combination.
See if you followed the steps the same as they are shown in the manual for your OS.
Snow Leopard (10.6): http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdfLion (10.7): http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.7.pdf
If you have Mountain Lion, the steps are the same as on Lion so use that manual. There is no manual for Mountain Lion.
Belated answer, just had the same problem but got it to work; it's a SigmaTel chip.
The drivers are available in the Bootcamp 4.0.4131 package from Apple here.
Had the same problem with my 2006 Mac Mini. Confirmed that PCI Vendor and Product IDs are in fact SigmaTel (under Hardware Ids in the device details tab). Got Boot Camp 4.0.4131 support software and found the IDT SigmaTel driver installer. After reboot, audio worked. I've been so many years without audio in Windows and am so happy to finally have it working. Thanks to all who contributed answers.
I have the mac mini 1.1 with this configuration.Intel Core Duo @ 1.73 GHz. 2 GB RAM, and 120 GB HDD. running Mac Os Snowleopard 10.6.8. when I installed Windows via Bootcamp, I found that Windows didnt recognize my real audio device and because of that I got no sound even when it says that the audio codecs are installed and working properly. so the best way to find out what is audio device was, is running an id device software. I used Everest and it found that de audio device was a Sigmatel Audio Devices specifically SigmaTel STAC9220 A1. so I google up for the drivers and boilaa! it worked!I hope this may be helpful to someone else! ;)