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- From: ptrubey@netcom.com (Phil Trubey)
- Subject: Re: Wierd tones on Mac power up: freezing.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.075105.1431@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan19.011006.13498@netcom.com> <1993Jan19.092325.3870@nic.csu.net> <8334@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:51:05 GMT
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- In article <8334@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM writes:
- >>There are, as I understand it, four sets of startup tones for the Mac. The
- >>one we hear everyday is the "hello I'm fine" tone. The others are versions
- >>of the "Gawd help me I'm dieing" tones. Guess which one you've got...
- >>
- >>Those last 3 tones are (I'm stretching my memory a bit here) for bad high RAM,
- >>bad low RAM, and bad hardware. There's an app at sumex that'll play the tunes
- >>and tell you what they mean.
- >>
- >>I'm not 100% on the meaning of the tones but they do mean you're in trouble.
- >
- >Since the original poster mentioned he was using TimesTwo, it seems that there
- >might be a place to start looking. Try disconnecting the hard disk drive and
- >booting from a floppy. Do you get the tone then?
-
- The original poster replies...
-
- I feel *really* silly now. I had forgotten that I had just gotten my Mac
- back from the repair show before I installed TimesTwo and started having
- all these problems. My motherboard got swapped at the repair shop (how
- the heck did I forget that as a possible complicating factor??).
-
- Anyways, it sure sounds to me now that I have some loose SIMMs that are
- a result of my new motherboard install. Thanks to all that
- replied to my posting. It helped!
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