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I will try to be a little more clear in describing this one: I use a 500GB USB Hard Drive for storing Music, Videos, Photos, etc. I have my entire library for iTunes, iPhoto in there. Here's the problem. When I mount the drive to use it, it works fine. If I stop iTunes for 5 minutes or so...

It is definitely a problem with the display. I detatched it from the Mac Mini and hooked it up to my little Linux Netbook. It seemed to work fine as an external display. When I plugged it back into the Mini it was immediately recognized. What an ordeal. Couldn't have sorted this out on my own...

Okay, well I managed to get it to boot from the CD and I did an fresh erase/install of OS X 10.4.0... (Holding down shift+windows key+delete+control did the trick for some reason.) So all is suposed to be well and good, right? Well the display is still unable to produce the native resolution...

I am using a Windows USB keyboard... Does this have anything to do with it?

Okay, tried holding "C." Nothing, the machine still went into OS X before the cd started to spin. The frustrating part of this is that I know the Install OS X icon is right there but I can't see it to click on it. Holding shift didn't do anything, either.

I will try that one, too. Thank you very much. As a secondary problem, what might cause OS X to "forget" my display settings? It detected the exact model of my screen before.

thanks for the replies guys. I'll try some of these out and report back with the results. Much appreciated.

Well to make myself more clear, after modifying the files I get nothing on the screen at all. When I boot it up I get the Apple logo, then it says Loading OS X of course, as soon as the desktop loads up the screen says "Mode not supported" and shuts off. It is as simple as switching back to the...

That sounds perfect, but will it restore my display settings to the defaults?

I figured as much, but how do I boot up from the CD? I'm used to the XP method of just having the CD in at boot up... Is there a key I have to press or something?

First post here... First real problem I've had with my mac in a few years of smooth sailing. I'll take that as a good thing. Anyway, my Mac Mini (PPC, 10.4.11) always just recognized the exact model/native resolution for my display... One day booting up it decided to boot into 800x600 for...