Was your volume muted? That disables the startup chime Sam
MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 4 May 2018, at 18:04, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 4 May 2018, at 17:36, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > > I’ve seen many Macs not start up like that, then they’re fine after > re-seating the RAM modules. > > ok, disconnected every single thing, including RAM, dusted a bit, put RAM > back in carefully, restarted. > > No chime, screen dark. Sound of fans and hard drives, nonetheless. > > It took a couple of seconds to realise that without the monitor connected at > all, this was entirely normal. > > So -- with a little embarrassment but I had tried swapping out RAM several > times -- I'm very pleased to thank you yet again Sam for saving the day:) > > But I infer that the chime has been deprecated somehow (or maybe it connected > to the bluetooth headphones...) > > Also it seems that one of my USB PCI cards is dead, I wonder if that was > something to do with it. It was definitely working when it went down because > the iPad did that 'hey I'm not charging now' flash of the screen. > > Very much appreciated, Sam. If you have a tip jar, let me know as you do so > much for people, and I know it's hard-earned knowledge. > > Cheers > Jason > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
