Questions tagged [hardware]
Matters involving physical computer components, circuitry and parts, as opposed to matters of software or computer programming
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Connect multiple A&H QU mixers as aggregate devices
I am looking to purchase a Studio M2 for our recording studio. Before proceeding I need to confirm that the M2 Studio can connect an Allen & Heath QU32 mixer and a QU-PAC mixer to the M2 as an ...
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How to diagnose cause of sound stutters on mac pro
I have ancient Mac Pro, a 2009 heavily upgrade: 2012 mother board, 12 core Xeon at 3.33 Ghz 96 GB ram.
It has an add on card with 5 USB ports, as several of the original ports no longer work.
(A way ...
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2014 Mac Mini in boot loop with kernel panics
The Mac Mini is usually left on but stopped working overnight, was off when user found it.
Tried:
reset SMC and NVRAM
hardware diagnostics (fwiw) showed no problems
single-user mode – wasn’t able to ...
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How do you activate the Mac Pro 2013 port lighting?
I recently inherited a Mac Pro 2013. These have neat-looking lighting around their (many) front-panel ports, which as I recall (and old threads online confirm) is supposed to be proximity-activated. ...
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Trouble upgrading SSD on 2015 13" MBP
I have a friend who is trying to squeeze a bit of extra life from his aging 2015 13" retina MBP by replacing the factory SSD, which recently bit the dust (flashing folder.) At my direction, he ...
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Macbook Air 2011: Battery issue, not charging, fan going at 100%
A year ago I bought a MacBook Air 2011 (i7, 4GB RAM) running High Sierra for a few bucks. There have been occasional hiccups, but overall the machine still works surprisingly well.
The previous owner ...
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Does Apple allow AppleCare expense deductions from an item’s trade-in value?
Pretty sure the answer is no; wanted to check for sure.
I have a 2022 MacBook Pro with water damage. Only boots into recovery mode. I have AppleCare. Genius Bar said for $300 I can send it off in the ...
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Replace original battery for MacBook Pro "Early 2011" and "Mid-2012"? [duplicate]
For the following laptops
Apple MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.3 13" Early 2011 Specs
Apple MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.9 13" Mid-2012 Specs
Where is possible buy an original ...
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Modern USB dock: is PD on 2012 Macbook Pro with USB-A going to damage the computer?
I bought a UGREEN 6-in-1 USB dock to expand my 2012 Macbook Pro's capabilities (can't currently afford anything new).
The dock has a USB-C connector to the computer, which has only USB-A 2.0 ports, ...
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Repairing scratched black border on the back side of the imac screen
I tried to replace the imac screen and accidentally scratched the black frame that comes on the back side of the screen around the lcd area. Just forgot about it and now it has some really noticeable ...
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Is possible insert safety the Hynix HMT351S6CFR8C-PB sticks into the Apple MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.3 13" Early 2011?
For Apple MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.3 13" Early 2011 Specs, about the RAM is indicated
Supports 1333 MHz PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM.
And for Apple MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.9 13" ...
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Hardware acceleration bug on 2023 Mac Pro?
Got a 2023 Mac Pro (M2 Ultra) earlier this year, which forced me to upgrade my OS from Monterey to Ventura (and now Sonoma).
It started as soon as I got the 2023 Mac Pro and migrated all my stuff from ...
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Technical details of M3
Is there any documentation available about technical differences between M1, M2 and M3? The only thing that I found is number of cores etc that apple tells us, 4.05 GHz maximum according to toms ...
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How to handle a kernel_task going wild, wrongly trying to cool my Mac?
I have a very annoying bug on my iMac 2019 (27", Retina 5K, i9, 8cores, Monterey, Radeon Pro Vega 8 Gb, 64GB Ram). It's likely caused by a hardware problem but also triggers a software bug I ...
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How can I get PCAN dongles to work with macOS?
I have a Perl program that's running a couple of CAN-servers to interact with a HIL setup. And with the connected Linux machines it's just the case of:
ifconfig -a | grep can
ip link set can0 type can ...
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