Re: Mac II is acting flakey! Ideas?

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From: Christopher Chow
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1987 07:07

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Actually, the Mac II beep on bootup is part of a self-test which the Mac II
does on power-ups.  Supposely, you can tell what's wrong with the machine by
the beep sound it make - the beep sound code was written to assume that even
main memory might not be there!  Does anyone know the mapping between boot
sounds and hardware errors?

Christopher Chow
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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
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Subject: Re: Mac II is acting flakey! Ideas?
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Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 03:07:02 EDT
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