Ronda Brown wrote:
On 24/04/2005, at 3:02 PM, Christian Kotz wrote:
When starting it up today, I was greeted by further bad news. The
computer made 3 beep tones and the power light flashes three times in
amber quite rapidly then changes to green, then back to the flashing
amber. What does this mean? prior to this It also was crashing after
loading Open Transport extension, then graphics accelerator extension
and then when loading the desktop. It's sick that's for sure
<elsnipo>
As Daniel has already said,
Three Beeps: No RAM banks passed memory testing.
Bad RAM. : Replace the existing SDRAM one DIMM at a time with
known-good PC-100 SDRAM.
Cheers,
Ronni
When Microsoft asks you, "Where do you want to go today?" Tell them,
"Apple!"
I would also get the power supply checked out, to me (without opening
the box) I would say it is suffering, and is not providing the grunt it
needs to start, if the HDD you are running is an older one (more than
2-3 years) the bearings will be wearing and the grease starts to go hard
when cold, trying to get them to spin up with a PSU that is not in good
shape can take a few tries (alot of IBM eng's will know this one from
the old days of spinning up HDD's that had not been used in months,
sometimes you would have to physically spin the drive with no platters
by hand about 20 -30 revolutions just to get it to run ;(
If you need help in testing the PSU, phone me on 0419 923 731.
Regards,
Kat.
