My niece has been having trouble lately with her Wallstreet (a 266MHz
model, I think).
A few weeks ago she was nonplussed with the computer's demand to see a
technician: a memory problem. I removed her two 64MB chips and put in a
256MB chip. It seemed to work. Then she complained of start-up problems,
and it sounded like the memory check to me, so I told her to turn off the
memory check, which was taking too much time at startup....
Now she writes me this:
"My computer seems functional and happy once it turns on,
but so far it follows a rather interesting and alarming
pattern. Every time I turn it off (as in when I turn it
off every night), it follows the same start-up pattern.
I press the power button and it starts to hum and (if I
leave it) it just gets warm like it's trying to boot up
but there's no chime. If I do the restart process
immediately, it doesn't continue, but if I wait a while
and do the restart process it will do the Mac-chimey-
noise. About 5 to 10 seconds after the chime, it goes
through a very curious and somewhat frightening series
of noises and screams (but the series is always the
exact same). Some of them sound like breaking glass
and some just sound like a crackly radio. It almost
sounds like there is a check of some sort running
through the hardware under the keyboard. But my
computer always boots up right after the noises and
works dandily. My roommate thinks it may be a hardware
connection problem of some kind in the start-up process."
Any ideas?
- t
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