Re: Help w/ Pismo!

[Adam Thayer]

Well, here is the meaning of the tones (From the Apple Service Manuals 
for the Pismo):

 1 beep No RAM is installed or detected.
 2 beeps EDO memory is installed. The PowerBook (FireWire) ships with 
SDRAM SO-DIMMs and does not accept EDO memory.
 3 beeps No RAM banks passed memory testing.
 4 or 5 beeps Bad checksum for the remainder of the boot ROM. The ROM 
(which is located on the microprocessor module) is bad.

What this means is that since you got 4 beeps, the ROM upgrade never 
got complete. The ROM flashing probably got interrupted. Tell me, what 
did you do after you heard the one long beep? Also, the flashing 
instructions I read say that you shouldn't shut down, so that all the 
data needed to flash the firmware is where it is supposed to be. I 
would like to know a little more detail on what you did *exactly* so I 
can at least let you know where it went wrong, exactly.

To be blunt the processor is not repairable without seeing if Apple 
themselves are willing to fix a bad ROM flash, and they might charge 
you more than it would cost to grab a 400Mhz processor.

Regards,
Adam Thayer
On Sep 3, 2004, at 5:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/3/04 5:31:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay; played with my Pismo some more....NOW when I try to start it 
up,
I get
four, even tone slow beeps (NOT the "tone of death") and the 
PRAM/sleep
lamp
starts flashing in cycles of four...
So; what level of Hades has my processor gone to NOW?!?
Could it be another board ?  Maybe the power board ?
Doubtful, since it's only doing this with one of the 400mhz processors 
I
have; with the other one it is working fine.

I guess it's time to Cowboy up & get another processor; I mussed this 
one up.

Craig W.
Atlanta, GA
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