I just started up my mac SE/30 this morning and got a funky chime sound and b&w lines across the screen. now when I turn it on I get a long chime sound foled by four short chimes which increase in pitch. (correction - when I turn it on now I get no sound - just the lines - I get the chimes when I hit the reset switch. I read in the help folder may'91 that a certain chime is a "Stage 2 ram error" but from the description it seems to be 3 chimes If you have any idea what the heck my chime sound is I would appreciate the help. My machine is 5 weeks out of warrany so I would like to try to do something myself to fix it (especially if It may be simple like swapping SIMMs.
I am only able to get on line with an old PC of mine and a 300 baud modem I found in a corner covered with dust.
Any help you could give would be appreciated.
Message: #9716, S/2 Mac Tech Questions
Date: Thu, Jun 13, 1991 12:59:05 PM
Subject: #9712-HELP!!!
From: David Ramsey 76702,335
To: BILL 73340,2441 (received)
Bill,
You have heard the "chimes of death". They can indicate either a hardware or a software problem.
See if you can boot from a floppy. If you can, it's a software problem on your hard disk. If you can't, it's a hardware problem.
If it's hardware, I can't think of much to try aside from reseating your SIMMs.
Message: #9727, S/2 Mac Tech Questions
Date: Thu, Jun 13, 1991 8:59:13 PM
Subject: #9712-HELP!!!
From: Craig O'Donnell 72511,240
To: BILL 73340,2441 (received)
Reply: #9742 (1 reply)
Bill -
I recently got the 4-chime (major arpeggio I think) deal when my internal hard drive decided to lose it.
Stay calm. If you can boot from a floppy you're OK (but your drive will have to be recovered with some HD utility like Norton).
I got my critical files off, and reformatted my HD. It's fine now. I don't believe in backups, I have several hundred megs and doing it to floppies is crazy. I just archive important stuff to floppies, and occasionally borrow a Syquest to stash my most valuable 45 megs of stuff.
It's true, I had about 20 megs of useless file-dada on that HD.
Message: #9742, S/2 Mac Tech Questions
Date: Fri, Jun 14, 1991 1:49:21 PM
Subject: #9727-HELP!!!
From: BILL 73340,2441
To: Craig O'Donnell 72511,240 (received)
Reply: #9747 (1 reply)
Craig -
Thanks for the response - in my case it appears to be a Ram problem or to be more specific a Simm connector flakeyness. I swapped simms around and got it to boot sometimes then jiggled the simms, successfully booted closed the machine up and have been thinking right around it ever since. ok so far.
of course now first thing in the morning I turn on the machine to see what type of day I'm going to have.
Thanks - Bill
Message: #9747, S/2 Mac Tech Questions
Date: Fri, Jun 14, 1991 8:50:23 PM
Subject: #9742-HELP!!!
From: Craig O'Donnell 72511,240
To: BILL 73340,2441 (received)
OK, Bill,
old recording engineer's trick - remove simms and gently clean with a pencil eraser; blow crumbs out of the way.
There's an antioxidant called "Cramolin" which can be used but it must be obtained from an Electronics distributor, and it's pretty expensive. Do NOT use "tuner cleaner" or anything from Radio Shack on your SIMM sockets and edges.
