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From: jford@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Question: startup beeps diagnostic?
Message-ID: <1991May25.000907.43184@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 25 May 91 05:09:07 GMT
Organization: Wesleyan University
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A friend of mine told me that the startup beep (the single beep that occurs
when you turn on your Mac) is actually a diagnostic of some kind.  Is this
true?

The question arose, actually, because his brother had tried to hook his hard
drive up to my friend's new IIfx, and they discovered that this didn't work. 
for some reason, every time the computer started up, it would check to see what
was there (as usual), and then the computer would go "de da da da" with a
rising pitch and stop booting.

Anyone have any idea what could have caused this?  They spent two hours at it,
and still have no idea.  As far as they know the drive is internally
terminated, and they tried resetting it's SCSI id.

Jamie Ford
jford@eagle.wesleyan.edu