2008/11/6 Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > At 12:48 PM -0600 11/6/2008, hackmiester / Hunter Fuller wrote: >> >>Error bongs stop bootup. > > Certain fatal test results stop the boot. Others don't. eg: > Transient bus, cache, and memory errors. > > In fact, I've got a Lombard here that has a dying cache. It does the > error chime then boots just fine. It runs very slowly. After a
Hm, that's really stupid... what if the Mac was located at a loud location... like a lot of mine are? Or what if it was never rebooted... like ALL of mine are? > while, depending on the type of memory errors that accumulate, either > the video starts showing artifacts or it writes bad data to the HD. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth > > > > -- -hackmiester --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
