Glad to be of assistance. :)
-Elliott
On Aug 25, 2009, at 7:50 PM, martynl wrote:
>
> Cyrus,
>
> Thanks, this was the info I needed. Uninstalling the SIMMs revealed
> that one of the four was bad and now the machine boots fine.
>
> Martyn
>
> On Aug 25, 5:45 pm, Cyrus Griffin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The tone you're hearing is generally referred to as the "death
>> chime",
>> it means something along the lines of, "your RAM is bad" or "your ROM
>> is broken" or even, "Your motherboard went kaput." I've had pretty
>> good luck with those DB15 to VGA adapters, however if it's an LCD
>> display, it probably won't work. (Not that this means it's making it
>> crash). You might try booting the 610 without the monitor or adapter
>> plugged in; (it'll boot without a monitor if it's working correctly)
>> and see if it still gives the death chime. If not, and it makes the
>> correct startup sound, then your monitor setup is probably the
>> problem, although I've never heard of a monitor causing that. You
>> might try booting with each stick of RAM individually, and see if
>> there's one that's making it crash.
>>
>> -Elliott
>>
>> On Aug 24, 2009, at 11:54 PM, martynl wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I am trying to restore a Quadra 610 to working order.
>>
>>> When powered on
>>> - the led is lit
>>> - the hard drive spins up
>>> - the startup sound is heard
>>> [both drives are empty]
>>
>>> But then
>>> - no video shows
>>> - I get a sequence of 8 tones
>>> The first four are a rising sequence in a major scale, the next four
>>> are varied and seem to be minor scale increments.
>>
>>> The monitor and cable is known to be working (is fine on my pc).
>>> The db15->vga converter dongle is not yet known to be working --
>>> don't
>>> have anything else to try it with yet.
>>
>>> Presumably these tones are trying to tell me why I'm not getting
>>> video. Can anyone point me at a site or information that would let
>>> me
>>> decode the tones?
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>>> Martyn Lovell- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> >
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