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From: DANFUZZ@BROWNVM.BITNET (Dan Bornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: possible hardware problem
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Date: 18 Apr 89 22:00:36 GMT
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"From:         Robert MacAusland
     I've had my GS for about 3 weeks and yesterday and one time today it did
something strange...
The machine came up with the
standard screen, beeped as usual, and then beeped again, and again, and again
.... ad infinitum.  Resets (Warm, luke-warm, and cold) didn't help. "

This problem is probably not related to hardware. The //gs, the vector-laden
machine that it is, routes even ctrl-oa-reset through a vector. In your
case, it seems that this was somehow trashed. The technique I use when this
happens is to do a ctrl-oa-opt-reset, which will get you into the self test
ALWAYS and then quickly doing a ctrl-reset, so as to get out of the self-test
before it tests battery ram (It's not a good idea to hit reset when battery
ram is being tested. However, all I know is that it isn't the *first* (red)
test.) This has worked for me so far.



-dan

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