Cyrus, Thanks, this was the info I needed. Uninstalling the SIMMs revealed that one of the four was bad and now the machine boots fine.
Martyn On Aug 25, 5:45 pm, Cyrus Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > The tone you're hearing is generally referred to as the "death chime", > it means something along the lines of, "your RAM is bad" or "your ROM > is broken" or even, "Your motherboard went kaput." I've had pretty > good luck with those DB15 to VGA adapters, however if it's an LCD > display, it probably won't work. (Not that this means it's making it > crash). You might try booting the 610 without the monitor or adapter > plugged in; (it'll boot without a monitor if it's working correctly) > and see if it still gives the death chime. If not, and it makes the > correct startup sound, then your monitor setup is probably the > problem, although I've never heard of a monitor causing that. You > might try booting with each stick of RAM individually, and see if > there's one that's making it crash. > > -Elliott > > On Aug 24, 2009, at 11:54 PM, martynl wrote: > > > > > > > I am trying to restore a Quadra 610 to working order. > > > When powered on > > - the led is lit > > - the hard drive spins up > > - the startup sound is heard > > [both drives are empty] > > > But then > > - no video shows > > - I get a sequence of 8 tones > > The first four are a rising sequence in a major scale, the next four > > are varied and seem to be minor scale increments. > > > The monitor and cable is known to be working (is fine on my pc). > > The db15->vga converter dongle is not yet known to be working -- don't > > have anything else to try it with yet. > > > Presumably these tones are trying to tell me why I'm not getting > > video. Can anyone point me at a site or information that would let me > > decode the tones? > > > Thanks, > > > Martyn Lovell- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
