Re: Dead Mac... Clueless

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

slick_RCBD@hotmail.com wrote:

:> A friend of mine has an Mac which doesn't boot up.
:>
:> The only thing that happens when powered on is something like...
:> 4 or 5 notes....
:>
:> ie    d d
:>             d
:>               d
:>                 d                    (imagine this to be music notation)
:>
:> followed by a cymball splash.... then nothing.
:>
:> Anyone familiar with scenario?

: Several teachers at my high school said that was the "System Death Sound",
: when I caused it to happen. It is suppost to signal hardware problems. The
: Mac needs to be repaired.

The "chimes of death" don't always mean that something is roasted. It can just
mean that something is out of whack as far as the Mac is concerned. For
instance, running a Plus with a hard disk without terminator power on the bus
will do it, and the chimes are what you get for your trouble if you try to
boot OS 7.6 on an SE/30.

: P.S. On some Macs, you can make them make those sounds by hitting Apple-Reset
: before the "Welcome to the Macintosh" or MacOS logo appears when the machine
: is booting up. That's how I scared the teachers. I didn't know it indicated
: hardwarte failures at the time. The above procedure is harmless, by the way.

That normally takes you to the debugger, does that happen too?
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