Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> on 13/04/02 12:06, James Cox at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> James Cox wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have been recently having intermittant problems while booting my
> >>> Wallstreet 233 w/ 96MB RAM. Sometimes you hear it go through the boot
> >>> sequence, but the screen stays blank, and other times it boots up normally,
> >>> except that at the end of the boot sequence I get an error message as
> >>> follows:
> >>>
> >>> "The built-in memory test has detected a problem. Please contact a service
> >>> technician for assistance."
> >>
> >> That usually means that you have some malfunctioning Ram. The startup
> >> instructions in your mac test the Ram on startup. If you get that error it
> >> means that you may probably have a bad stick.
> >>
> >> Have you added Ram recently?
> >>
> >> Did you recently install the Firmware Update for your Powerbook?
> >>
> >> -- Kyle H. Hansen
> >
> > Kyle,
> >
> > I haven't added any memory since I bought the PB over a year ago, and
> > excuse my ignorance, but what is a Firmware Update?
>
> The firmware is a special memory location that can contains code and other
> values. Usually, you don't change it but sometimes, it might be desirable to
> alter the content.
>
> I don't think there is a firmware in the Wallstreet, though...
Yep. My bad. I forgot that they started with the PB G3 Pismo.
-- Kyle H. Hansen
Apple Certified Technician
Apple Hardware Technician
Macintosh Server Administrator
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