[G4] Re: Start up Chime

[Wilson John]

Is it possible your internal speaker has stopped working? Do you get  
system alerts and other sounds?


On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:59 AM, keith_w wrote:

> Harry Freeman wrote:
>> Greetings ( + )!( + )
>> As best that I know the start-up chime comes after of the memory  
>> has been checked and passed.
>
> Hi Harry, Yes, I understand that, but TTP 4.0 has passed all my RAM  
> as peachy-keen, and still no chime.
>
> keith
>
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>> On Oct 7, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net wrote:
>>> On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:20:49 -0700, keith_w wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't GET a start-up chime anymore.
>
>>> It means the Power-On Self-Test has failed the computer's pre- 
>>> boot sequence.
>
> While that may be true, Tom, there seems to be no OTHER adverse  
> effects from not hearing a chime...
>
>>> If you can't pass the POST, I don't think you can get to the  
>>> terminal to do any of the suggested resets.
>
> I wouldn't know how to do that anyhow!  ;-)
> If it becomes necessary, I'll look it up.
>
>>> In my case (dual 1.25, pre-2003), it meant the mobo was fryed. :-(
>
> Uh oh! Bad mobo!
> Aren't you worried?
>
> keith
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