Re: OT Hardware Question


Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
Liam <nomail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry to pose a knowingly OT question, but it seems there's no one home
in the hardware group. Here's my problem, if anyone can advise me:

I usually keep my mac running, but had to shut down today for
electricians to do work. When I restarted (it's a G4 MDD, running
Tiger) the tower-light did a couple of flickers and a tone sounded. All
was well afterwards and the OS started up fine, but is this some sort
of warning?

AFAIK, all Mac's start up with one tone. 'C Major' if I remember correctly.

Nearly right.:-) - Older Macs such as the Performas 2xx, 4xx, LCs, SEs etc. start with the single tone sound. All newer Macs uses a polyphonic tune as startsound...

The flickering lights ought to be there too during startup.

Hm, I've only seen that the light gives a single blinking during the startup process. - On some models I've noticed that a flickering lamp indicates low PRAM battery power.

If you had more than *one* tone you may have a problem.
I think the electricians have you a bit paranoid.

If the polyphonic startup sound is replaced with a triple monophonic bip of apprx. 1 secs. duration, this normally is the 'Chime of Death', which indicates real severe hardware problems - primarely a burned off motherboard...

Just last week, I sent an old Sawttoth to the eternal Mac fileds [...rest in peace.:-))] - with a dead motherboard.

cheers, Erik Richard

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