On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 02:15 PM, J. Shea wrote: > I bought a Lombard from a LEM Swap Lister, and it had a hard drive > problem. > The person I bought it from replaced the hard drive for me, and I > installed > it, and it worked fine. For three days. This morning, I tried to start > it > up, and it made a series of noises sort of like an old video game, > shooting > at someone. The noises would come four "beeps", then a beat of > silence, four > more "beeps". Repeating this for about 10 seconds. The sound quit, but > the > laptop was not able to find a system folder to boot from. So, I booted > from > a TechTool disk, and the internal hard drive was not visible to > TechTool. > This was the same problem I had with the other hard drive. > > Any ideas as to the cause of this?
kbase article 58183 states: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58183> # 1 beep = No RAM installed/detected # 2 beeps = Incompatible RAM type installed (for example, EDO) # 3 beeps = No RAM banks passed memory testing # 4 beeps = Bad checksum for the remainder of the boot ROM # 5 beeps = Bad checksum for the ROM boot block so.... it sounds like a problem on the processor card rather than hard drive. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
