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From: mrh@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Hannah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mac II is acting flakey! Ideas?
Message-ID: <2005@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 17:36:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: Shasta.2005
Posted: Wed Sep  9 17:36:07 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Sep-87 07:20:18 EDT
Organization: Stanford University
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Keywords: sometimes no beep on bootup


   After 5-6 hours of consecutive work last night with my Mac II (with no
problems after 2.5 months) I ran into problems booting this morning. The
first time I powered on I did NOT get the Boot Chime and none of the usual
procedure occurred. The screen was lit but nothing happened, neither
the interrupt button nor the reset button (!) nor the 'power' button in
the very back had any effect. Only by using my power strip was I able to
try again. After a couple of power cycling attempts the system booted normally
and seemed to behave ok. I tried a couple more times and it seemed flakey,
including one time where it got pretty far in the boot process and then
a 'click' came from the speaker and then it hung. I have seen problems
with bootup when SCSI devices which were not on at bootup but only my
internal hard drive was connected at boot time and even one of the times
when it was read properly, the system hung. Obviously it looks like a hardware
problem and I'm taking it in for (warrenty) repairs but I thought I'd post
to get feedback and other people's experience.
David Gelphman   daveg%slacvm.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu