I have the same tone on my portable when something goes wrong. The four chord tone? I think its pre car crash sound? When everything is well I think it just beeps. Right now my portable is silent :( On Jun 24, 2011 9:46 AM, "Iamanamma" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have to work with vintage Macs on a daily basis, and I've hear the > car crash noise, the breaking glass noise, and the "chimes of doom." > I've never heard the video game-like major chord sound that I heard > today. > > I have IIci that has decided to start behaving badly. When I powered > it on, I got the normal startup chime followed immediately by a four > note major chord. There wasn't even time between the two sounds to > reset the PRAM. > > Anyway, it was so odd, I opened the case and started checking how > everything was seated. When I reseated the cache card, the sound > stopped occurring, but the IIci was still freezing after startup. > Those of you who have read my other post know I have another IIci that > won't start up at all. I swiped the cache card out of it and put it > into my musical and malfunctioning IIci, and now it seems to want to > work properly. > > I was hoping someone who sees this post could tell me if that chime is > the symptom of a bad cache card, or if my "fix" was purely > coincidental. > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
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