sksircar@shade.Princeton.EDU (Subrata Sircar) (04/14/91)
I apologize in advance for cross-posting to three groups, but I'm not really sure where this belongs. My roommate's Macintosh has an occasional power-on problem in that after the keyboard switch is pressed, it will play a sound like "da-da-da dum" and sit there, repeating the sound if the debugger switch is pressed. It never lights up the screen. The problem is intermittent, so I gather that the Mac IIci is failing its internal self-test. It's an 8M Mac IIci running 6.0.7 with an 80M hard drive. I've run numerous tests on the hard drive, and it seems to be fine. The problem predates both the addition of the extra memory and the upgrade to 6.0.7. What I'm looking for is a software program to run the internal self-test, or a program to tell me which error the sound corresponds to (a program called Diagnostic Sound Sampler was mentioned in the last MacUser. I looked through the archives on ux1.cso.uiuc.edu for the User's Group disks, and couldn't find it. Is it available for anonymous ftp, or could some kind soul mail it to me?) or some probable sources of error. Is it the SIMMS, the ROM, or what? and how can I fix it? Even advice like "Take it to your dealer and let him worry about it" will not be ignored. Thanks in advance. Please email to me, as 1) I doubt this is of general interest, and 2) I don't read all of these newsgroups so I probably won't see your post. Subrata Sircar | sksircar@phoenix.princeton.edu |Prophet& SPAMIT Charter Member I don't speak for Princeton, and they don't speak for me. "May their souls rot in easy-listening hell!" - Johnny Melnibone, GRIMJACK #76 "I seem to suffer from irrelevant flashbacks." - Paul, PAUL THE SAMURAI #1