RE: sos tone from mac book

[Simon Fogarty]

Thanks for that,

Same thing google said but wasn’t sure of the how to recover from it.

If I call apple I will need a serial number from the machine if I’m not 
mistaken?

Great, I’ll have to find a set of eyes to do the reading for me.

From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] 
On Behalf Of Daniel Miller
Sent: Thursday, 8 June 2017 11:31 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: sos tone from mac book

Hi Simon. This means that your EFI ROM is corrupted, and the computer is in EFI 
rom recovery mode. Unfortunately, this mode is not accessible, and since your 
computer is not new enough, it does not recover on its own. You need a restore 
CD which you can obtain through Apple. I suggest contacting them.
Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 8, 2017, at 6:03 AM, Simon Fogarty 
<si...@blinky-net.com<mailto:si...@blinky-net.com>> wrote:
Hi Listers,

I’ve got a mac book from approx. 2008 2009, it’s a 13” notebook and when I 
power it on it gives a tone like S.O.S but reversed three long tones three 
short and then three long again,

I’ve taken out the ram and replaced it including with incorrect ram which gives 
a 3 tone chime which keeps going on and on and twhen the ram was corrected it 
went back to the S.O.S tone,

There doesn’t appear to be any text on the screen

Does anyone have any idea what might be hpappening with this machine.

It has been powered off for approx. 12 months and last time it was used was to 
migrate data from it to a new mac book air.

I’d love to get this machine up and running again if anyone can give me info on 
what is possibly happening.

Cheers,


Simon F
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Re: sos tone from mac book

[Daniel Miller]

Hi Simon. This means that your EFI ROM is corrupted, and the computer is in EFI 
rom recovery mode. Unfortunately, this mode is not accessible, and since your 
computer is not new enough, it does not recover on its own. You need a restore 
CD which you can obtain through Apple. I suggest contacting them.

Sent from my iPhone  

> On Jun 8, 2017, at 6:03 AM, Simon Fogarty  wrote:
> 
> Hi Listers,
>  
> I’ve got a mac book from approx. 2008 2009, it’s a 13” notebook and when I 
> power it on it gives a tone like S.O.S but reversed three long tones three 
> short and then three long again,
>  
> I’ve taken out the ram and replaced it including with incorrect ram which 
> gives a 3 tone chime which keeps going on and on and twhen the ram was 
> corrected it went back to the S.O.S tone,
>  
> There doesn’t appear to be any text on the screen
>  
> Does anyone have any idea what might be hpappening with this machine.
>  
> It has been powered off for approx. 12 months and last time it was used was 
> to migrate data from it to a new mac book air.
>  
> I’d love to get this machine up and running again if anyone can give me info 
> on what is possibly happening.
>  
> Cheers,
>  
>  
> Simon F
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sos tone from mac book

[Simon Fogarty]

Hi Listers,

I've got a mac book from approx. 2008 2009, it's a 13" notebook and when I 
power it on it gives a tone like S.O.S but reversed three long tones three 
short and then three long again,

I've taken out the ram and replaced it including with incorrect ram which gives 
a 3 tone chime which keeps going on and on and twhen the ram was corrected it 
went back to the S.O.S tone,

There doesn't appear to be any text on the screen

Does anyone have any idea what might be hpappening with this machine.

It has been powered off for approx. 12 months and last time it was used was to 
migrate data from it to a new mac book air.

I'd love to get this machine up and running again if anyone can give me info on 
what is possibly happening.

Cheers,


Simon F

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