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From: ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shinny new IIcx that sings!
Message-ID: <546@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Date: 29 Mar 89 01:34:05 GMT
References: <1424@wasatch.UUCP> <19331@srcsip.UUCP>
Reply-To: ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger)
Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA
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In article <19331@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@gorby.UUCP (Murat N. Konar) writes:

>>Well my Cobra showed up. I had a unique experience with it while trying to
>>put it together and crank it up. After pluggin all the pieces together and
>>finally pressing the ignition key, instead of getting the nice chime sound
>>and a smiling mac, I got this little musical tune (a whole little verse of 
>>notes in very nice sounding tone) and no screen at all! Not even a frowning
>>mac. It turned out that one of the Ram simms I had added wasn't snaped in all
>>the way. I guess it has it own way of saying "hey, somethings wrong!"

>The Mac II does this also.  It follows that the Mac IIx and IIcx should too,
>probably the SE/30 as well.  I think its pretty neat but perplexing if you 
>don't know what's going on.  Apple really should distribute a program that
>demonstartes the different "error" tunes so that a user knows that the tunes 
>mean something's wrong and doesn't think their Mac is just unusually happy to 
>see tham that day.

There is such a program, there are about 5 different musical combos that
the Mac II and up can play indicating the failure of some power up test.
I do not know why its not generally available, though I have seen it and
I know that dealer techs I'm pretty sure have this along with some other
diagnostic software...

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