Hi Bruce and Bill, It's definitely not the HD grinding itself up and the External DVD Drive I was using was undamaged (still working in the tower I popped it out of). The Tiger OEM Install disc does have a nice donut of fine engraving upon it near the middle and is kaput pending a nice refreshing day at the spa to get the fine marks of old age to diminish! The Screech is definitely an electronic tone - quite specific in tone and duration. All ports are non responsive during atttempt to boot - ie: monitor doesn't flash, flicker, or anything whatsoever, keyboard num&caps lock led's don't light, and the unit doesn't respond to any keyboard commands - shift down to safe boot, option-command-p-r to zap pram, option held down to select boot drive, zip-nada-nuttin but nuttin! All data is completely backed up via both a superduper produced drive clone and a user folder backup as well. So no worries there! I just have a 'bricked' G4 Mini now!
Maybe I'll part it on the lemswap list. Maybe someone can use a powersupply or the 1gig of ram or something? I swapped a dig cam for it a couple of years ago, it was heavily used before getting to me and I flogged it hard. I have no complaints what so ever about it. I must admit that the squeal tone it spits out now is quite striking! Definitely not the breaking glass note of memory errors, more on the order of "LOOKOUT! The Reactor Is Melting!" Richard On Aug 14, 11:44 am, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: > On Aug 14, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > > > > > > On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:32 AM, aussieshepsrock wrote: > > >> Hello, > >> I have g4 mini 1.2ghz, 1gig, 40 gig that is now presenting with a > >> loud screech instead of the nice startup chime. It sends no signal to > >> the monitor, isn't attempting to boot, and is unresponsive to any > >> keyboard commands, and the lights in the keyboard don't light (caps > >> lock, num lock, etc). Attempted to start with all connections at rear > >> removed, but just got screeching 'chime of death' - no difference at > >> all. > > > Is the screech sound a head crash of the harddrive? sound like a > > needle on a record player being dragged across an old vinyl record? > > What Bill said, the noise of a HD read head grinding it's way through > the platter is loud and unforgettable. > > A system dropped hard enough to fubar the DVD drive, is probably > enough to damage the drive. > > The no memory error is a short sound like breaking glass. Possibly the > memory's been knocked loose? > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
