abeg@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Abe Ghahyasi) (02/04/89)
Does any body out there have a list of error code for Mac. My mac doesn't boot up and gives me a sad face icon with 040800 error code. Any idea what's going on. By the way this is an older mac with 128K memory. thanks in advance, Abe Ghahyasi abeg@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM
fons@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (02/06/89)
The following is from a earlier posting I downloaded from USENET (but never had
to use thank goodness)
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
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Paul Fons
University of Illinois
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