At 6:46 AM -0700 6/24/2011, Iamanamma wrote:
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.
The main bong means that the basic self-test (cpu, memory and i/o buses, etc) passed.
The subsequent four note chord means that the final checksum check on the boot rom failed. I think. But perhaps it's cache... seeing as your experience below.
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.
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