bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) (12/31/88)
Good day. As a public service, I'm posting this list of Sad Mac numbers. I posted this about 6 months ago, but it seems to be time to do it again. Ahem. The Sad Mac error code is six digits long. The first two digits are the class code, and tell what the problem is. The second four digits are usually meaningless except to repair people (they pinpoint suspected bad chips), but for class code 0F, the codes are important. See below. The Sad Mac codes are: 01 nnnn ROM test failed. 02 nnnn Memory test (Bus sub-test) failed 03 nnnn Memory test (byte write) failed 04 nnnn Memory test (Mod3 test) failed 05 nnnn Memory test (Address uniqueness) failed Class code 0F indicates failures after the self test at startup: 0F 0001 Bus error 0F 0002 Address error 0F 0003 Illegal instruction 0F 0004 Zero divide 0F 0005 Check instruction 0F 0006 TrapV instruction 0F 0007 Privilege violation 0F 0008 Trace 0F 0009 Line 1010 0F 000A Line 1111 0F 000B Other exceptions 0F 000D NMI. All of these codes, by the way, are reason to gnash one's teeth, and pull one's hair, EXCEPT 0F000D. This probably means that the programmer's switch is jammed. Unjamming this switch should improve things dramatically. Good luck to all. Clip and save this posting. Thank you. Bob Hablutzel BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU
macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener) (01/13/89)
Now that we have the sad mac codes for the Mac plus, does anyone have a similar list for the SE? Our tech reps have only the codes for RAM chip failures. -- Danny Schwendener +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mail : Danny Schwendener, ETH Macintosh Support | | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8092 Zuerich | | Bitnet : macman@czheth5a UUCP : {cernvax,mcvax}ethz!macman | | Internet: macman@ifi.ethz.ch Voice : yodel three times | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) (03/16/90)
A document describing the Sad Mac Error Codes, including those for the
Macintosh Portable, is now available for anonymous FTP on Apple.com (IP
130.43.2.2). Look in ~ftp/pub/dts/mac/docs/
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