[Ti] 3 beeps, etc.

[Bradley Ellis]

Kynan, et. al.,

I spent a couple of hours on the phone with AppleCare (I have a few  
weeks left on my 3 year contract) today and possibly squared my woes  
away.

I'd been having many of the current 10.4.2 problems (Airport signal  
weakness or absence, iTunes hangs, pauses, etc.) and more (hangs with  
3 beeps after a "hard" restart).  I just got my Ti 667 back from  
Apple with a new logic board, etc., so I was bummed it was acting up  
after only a few days of usage.

Since I was running 1 gig of "after-market" RAM (by Crucial), Apple  
techs had me put in the original RAM and give that a go.  The old RAM  
solved nothing.  The call-back to AppleCare appears to have fixed my  
problems.  The tech had me evaluate what was in my "Startup" menu and  
delete what was unnecessary (and that was not an Apple product).   
That appears to have done the trick (although we deleted little and  
what I would call innocuous).  I have read gobs of issues others have  
been having with 3rd-party software regarding Tiger and I guess I am  
another on that list.

Thanks to all the helped.

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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