Maybe rather than an alert sound it indicates a faulty sound card. I don't know about Tibook, but on my Pismo sound card includes also dc- in power managment capabilities, when the card fails the computer may not boot.
The only thing similar to this I have heard is on my original powerbook G3 (Kanga) it makes source of a coughing sound rather than the bong as it initializes the audio at startup. This doesn't seem to hurt anything but if I reset pram it produces the normal bong but the coughing comes back at the next reboot (note this machine is running the unsupported 9.2.2 hack which uses an "ibook audio" extension). On Mar 16, 8:13 pm, John Carmonne <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried to post this on the G4 book list but it seems to be dead. > I have a G4 800MHz TiBook that produces three short 'hissing " > sounds instead of the chime on startup. I know this is an alert sound > similar to the beeps, > Does anyone know what this means? > > JOHN CARMONNE > Yorba Linda USA > From TiBook 867 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
