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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / January 2007The long beep
What is going on when I power up my Powerbook G4 Titanium and it gives off a long beep and the indicator light flickers? This may happen a few times before I get it to boot up.  Signature~Stu Stu <Nospam@towel.com> schrieb: > What is going on when I power up my Powerbook G4 Titanium and it gives > off a long beep and the indicator light flickers? This may happen a > few times before I get it to boot up. The RAM is not recognized. If you are lucky, it is only a RAM that is not seated correctly in the memory-slot. If you are not lucky, your logic board may be damaged. Florian In article <50E04146-1595-443A-98C8-AD0BD2FB25E2%f.zschocke@edv-consulting-berlin.d e>, > Stu <Nospam@towel.com> schrieb: > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Florian mind, there's the "not-lucky-but-not-that-unlucky" option: one stick of RAM is bad. In that case, consider maxing out the RAM (if you can't take advantage of a lifetime warranty or something). SignatureLater, John johajohn@indianahoosiers.edu 'indiana' is a 'nolnn' and 'hoosier' is a 'solkk'. Indiana doesn't solkk. John Johnson <null@invalid.com> schrieb: > In article > <50E04146-1595-443A-98C8-AD0BD2FB25E2%f.zschocke@edv-consulting-berlin.d [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > RAM is bad. In that case, consider maxing out the RAM (if you can't take > advantage of a lifetime warranty or something). A bad RAM would 3 beeps and no light. Florian In article <ABC05FB7-B1CB-4E6F-9FAB-806FF03B5E2E%f.zschocke@edv-consulting-berlin.d e>, > John Johnson <null@invalid.com> schrieb: > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Florian Good point. Guess that's what I get for writing stuff like this when I'm tired. Thanks for the correction. SignatureLater, John johajohn@indianahoosiers.edu 'indiana' is a 'nolnn' and 'hoosier' is a 'solkk'. Indiana doesn't solkk. > What is going on when I power up my Powerbook G4 Titanium and it gives > off a long beep and the indicator light flickers? This may happen a > few times before I get it to boot up. My TiBook G4-400 does that, as does my AlBook 12" 866 when the battery is completely toast. If I run it down all the way till the power fails, then plug it in and immediately try to restart, it gives a long beep and lots of flickering lights. If I let it sit and charge for 5 minutes, it'll work no problem. Been doing that for 3 years now. No bad ram on either machine - just a complaint that the battery is too deeply discharged for the thing to start up just yet. Will |
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