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Re: HELP-De-ciphering Sad Mac Codes

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From: Michael Mukasa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:55
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In <1992Nov18.021608.22623@samba.oit.unc.edu> Mike.Oniffrey@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Oniffrey) writes:

>Over a period of about eight hours, My SE got to the point where it simply
>not boot at all - not even a re-boot belltone when I tried pushing the
>reset switch on the side.

>It started with an occasional lockup of the screen; a re-boot cured that.

>It then progressed to screenlock _with_ a random pattern of black or white
>pixels across the screen.  I could still get the machine to re-boot.

>Finally, it would lock up, dead cursor, and when I tried to reboot, the
>SAD MAC icon would come up with the following code sequence:

>            00000005              or           00000004
>            15001F00                           00003F00


>Multiple tries at re-booting would bring up the same icon with changes in
>the code sequence and the random across-the-screen pattern of pixels.

>If anyone would be so kind as to post or E-mail to me directly a list of
>sad Mac error codes, I would be most appreciative.

>Mike Oniffrey
>InterNET:  Mike.Oniffrey@launchpad.unc.edu
>   Voice:  919.549.7878
>     FAX:  919.549.7070
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Please post the results if you can I would be very intersted in knowing
the results as well.

Thank you in advance.

Kiggundu.
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