On Jul 12, 4:25 pm, Bill Connelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 12, 2009, at 3:24 PM, dualG4Wheels wrote:
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> > Hi there,
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> > I have a Powermac G4 MDD, with dual 1.42 processors, that I have been
> > using for the past three years. A couple of weeks ago, when I shut the
> > machine down, right before it went off altogether,but after the hard
> > drive parked, I heard a distinct two beat (and beep) melody coming
> > from inside the case, as opposed to the speaker. At the time, I
> > brushed it aside as some sort of fluke.
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> > But, last night, my Powermac called out again. The entire event lasts
> > less than a second and consists of a high tone, followed by a lower
> > tone. If anybody's familiar with the old Milton Bradley handheld
> > baseball game the tones coming from my Mac are almost exactly the same
> > as the tones one gets when a third out is attained - just a quick Bee-
> > boop.
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> > Is there a significance to these tones? If so, what do they mean? Is
> > my Mac trying to warn me of it's demise? Any help with this would be
> > most appreciated.
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> It didn't sound more like an old vinyl record having a needle scraped
> across it?
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> My hard drive sent that though my audio system once when I had to shut
> it down by holding the power button in ...
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> I believe that was somewhat of a disk crash ... seems to be still
> functioning though.
No record scratching here (just thinking of that sound makes me
wince), just two beeps. :)
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