Re: G4 Mini with Chime of Death
Hi Bruce and Bill, It's definitely not the HD grinding itself up and the External DVD Drive I was using was undamaged (still working in the tower I popped it out of). The Tiger OEM Install disc does have a nice donut of fine engraving upon it near the middle and is kaput pending a nice refreshing day at the spa to get the fine marks of old age to diminish! The Screech is definitely an electronic tone - quite specific in tone and duration. All ports are non responsive during atttempt to boot - ie: monitor doesn't flash, flicker, or anything whatsoever, keyboard numcaps lock led's don't light, and the unit doesn't respond to any keyboard commands - shift down to safe boot, option-command-p-r to zap pram, option held down to select boot drive, zip-nada-nuttin but nuttin! All data is completely backed up via both a superduper produced drive clone and a user folder backup as well. So no worries there! I just have a 'bricked' G4 Mini now! Maybe I'll part it on the lemswap list. Maybe someone can use a powersupply or the 1gig of ram or something? I swapped a dig cam for it a couple of years ago, it was heavily used before getting to me and I flogged it hard. I have no complaints what so ever about it. I must admit that the squeal tone it spits out now is quite striking! Definitely not the breaking glass note of memory errors, more on the order of LOOKOUT! The Reactor Is Melting! Richard On Aug 14, 11:44 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Aug 14, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:32 AM, aussieshepsrock wrote: Hello, I have g4 mini 1.2ghz, 1gig, 40 gig that is now presenting with a loud screech instead of the nice startup chime. It sends no signal to the monitor, isn't attempting to boot, and is unresponsive to any keyboard commands, and the lights in the keyboard don't light (caps lock, num lock, etc). Attempted to start with all connections at rear removed, but just got screeching 'chime of death' - no difference at all. Is the screech sound a head crash of the harddrive? sound like a needle on a record player being dragged across an old vinyl record? What Bill said, the noise of a HD read head grinding it's way through the platter is loud and unforgettable. A system dropped hard enough to fubar the DVD drive, is probably enough to damage the drive. The no memory error is a short sound like breaking glass. Possibly the memory's been knocked loose? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
G4 Mini with Chime of Death
Hello, I have g4 mini 1.2ghz, 1gig, 40 gig that is now presenting with a loud screech instead of the nice startup chime. It sends no signal to the monitor, isn't attempting to boot, and is unresponsive to any keyboard commands, and the lights in the keyboard don't light (caps lock, num lock, etc). Attempted to start with all connections at rear removed, but just got screeching 'chime of death' - no difference at all. I suspect the mini may have been damaged in trip to girlfriends home for it and me to stay for awhile. It was flaky upon setup and still flaky when booting from a recent 'superduper' backup. (was freezing up once boot sequence and launch software finished loading). Shutting off yahoo messenger launching at login stabilized that problem, but the mini became quite flaky attempting to configure to access the home wifi and I decided to go for a nuke and pave of internal drive with a fresh tiger install. Tiger install was ruined when drive read head impacted dvd and left a substantial donut of scratches on it after a clumsy accident by me almost knocked drive to floor - it was dangling though. Mini did boot from my clone and was working for a few minutes off the clone, but after attempting to restart from a cold shutdown an hour later, all I get is chime of death screeching. What do I do? I posted to mini list, but only advice so far was to have install dvd polished - but if mini is just screeching and not attempting to boot, I could even purchase a ten pack of install dvd's (and in my opinion) I'd just have a nice matched set of coasters. :-) I haven't heard this sound since I was in college and putzing with a Mac II I found at a garage sale. I suspect and 'think' the physical hardware of my mini is busted somehow. I am outside my realm of technical knowledge and experience here - the mini doesn't seem to be interacting with any of the ports because the monitor isn't responding in any fashion during attempt to turn mini on and the usb wired keyboard isn't receiving power or signal of any kind (caps lock light isn't lighting when attempted). Richard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: G4 Mini with Chime of Death
On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:32 AM, aussieshepsrock wrote: Hello, I have g4 mini 1.2ghz, 1gig, 40 gig that is now presenting with a loud screech instead of the nice startup chime. It sends no signal to the monitor, isn't attempting to boot, and is unresponsive to any keyboard commands, and the lights in the keyboard don't light (caps lock, num lock, etc). Attempted to start with all connections at rear removed, but just got screeching 'chime of death' - no difference at all. Is the screech sound a head crash of the harddrive? sound like a needle on a record player being dragged across an old vinyl record? Maybe replacing the hard drive containing a clone of another OS X installation would get you going. Just guessing here. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: G4 Mini with Chime of Death
On Aug 14, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:32 AM, aussieshepsrock wrote: Hello, I have g4 mini 1.2ghz, 1gig, 40 gig that is now presenting with a loud screech instead of the nice startup chime. It sends no signal to the monitor, isn't attempting to boot, and is unresponsive to any keyboard commands, and the lights in the keyboard don't light (caps lock, num lock, etc). Attempted to start with all connections at rear removed, but just got screeching 'chime of death' - no difference at all. Is the screech sound a head crash of the harddrive? sound like a needle on a record player being dragged across an old vinyl record? What Bill said, the noise of a HD read head grinding it's way through the platter is loud and unforgettable. A system dropped hard enough to fubar the DVD drive, is probably enough to damage the drive. The no memory error is a short sound like breaking glass. Possibly the memory's been knocked loose? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
