[Ti] 3 beeps, etc.

[Bradley Ellis]

Hey Kynan,

Yeah, I found an article that suggested exactly what you said.  I "re- 
seated" the MT logo ram and again ran Apple's hardware diag cd and  
all hardware appears well.  Guess it must have been a poor "seat"  
post AppleCare "logic board" replacement.

Anyone got any tips about the iTunes "freeze" problem?

Sincerely,
Brad

On Jul 17, 2005, at 9:32 PM, Kynan Shook wrote:

> 3 beeps means that the power on self-test did not find any usable  
> RAM.  This generally means one of two things; either all your  
> memory is bad (or poorly seated), or the logic board is bad.  In  
> your case, since you have a relatively new logic board, that would  
> probably be what I suspect first.  Crucial RAM is usually pretty  
> good - the only reason I'd suspect is if it's not from Micron  
> Technology (there will be a small MT logo on each chip if it is).   
> If it's labeled as Nanya or something else, then it means that  
> Crucial/Micron couldn't meet demand and had to buy memory from  
> other manufacturers, which is often not quite as good.
>
> Anyway, if you have multiple sticks of memory, try removing one at  
> a time and see if the problems go away.  Or, try using the original  
> Apple RAM instead.  If they still happen, call up Apple and ask for  
> another new logic board.
>
>
> Bradley Ellis <brad212 at mac.com> writes:
>
>> Is this the place to discuss this?  I've been having the (what
>> appears to be) common "freeze"  (computer completely locks and
>> requires hard shutdown and restart) while playing iTunes (4.9).  I'm
>> also running "Tiger" 10.4.2.
>>
>> Most recently, I had to restart and got "3 beeps," a few "flashes" of
>> the pulsing "Sleep" light below the "PowerBook G4" logo on the
>> screen.  I "hard" shutdown and restarted again and all is well.  The
>> Apple hardware diagnostic cd tells me my hardware is fine.  The
>> "Logic board" is a couple of weeks old (thanks to AppleCare).  I have
>> 1 gig of "Crucial" RAM.  The hard drive is a 60 gig replacement
>> that's about 6 months old.  Any thoughts?  Or is this the wrong place
>> to ask this question (this is a 667 Ti).
>>
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