Jeremy Derr wrote:
> On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 08:49 PM, Alan Sargent wrote:
>
> > A friend's blue iMac is having frequent booting failures.
> > Often it gives 4 beeps (which the manual says are chip or RAM problems).
> > Also sometimes gives the message "unable to prepare code fragment" which
> > I
> > can't find anything about.
> > It has worked fine for about a year; if it can be persuaded (by multiple
> > tries) to boot it seems normal.
> >
> > Any advice? It's a very humid climate here and the problems seemed to come
> > after it wasn't used for a while. The salty air and moisture here is good
> > at killing electrical and mechanical gear...
>
> kbase #58183 says....
> > 4 beeps = Bad checksum for the remainder of the boot ROM
>
> kbase #58442 says....
> > 4 beeps = no good boot images in the boot ROM (and/or bad sys config
> > block)
>
> what it all means is..... bad processor or logic board :(
Guess I better check the service manual, but I thought 4 beeps was a Ram test
fail..not ROM. Oops.
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