Sorry what I meant by three strikes is first I power it up and the HD
moves to position but there is no tone or screen activity so I push the
reset button and boot it again, by this stage the screen is on but no
sound or HD activity. Third time/second reset it fires up with start up
tone and OS loading. This is if the computer has been shut down and
powerless for say over 10 minutes. No problems when restarting. When
waking from sleep it also needs to be reset, otherwise just a black
screen. As for the RAM it was a single 128 MB module but I swapped it
with 2X 64 MB modules and no change. Also it has a fresh clock battery
which I thought was flat and causing the problem but apparently not.
Regards Christian
On 23/04/2005, at 11:59 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
On 23/04/2005 11:53 PM, "Christian Kotz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi All
Anyone have any ideas what may be causing the following issues in an
iMac DV SE and how to rectify them:
"3 strikes" before powering up, I have to reset it twice before the
screen will come on and the chime happens
Surging/flickering in speakers, they buzz and make a flickering sound
even when the iMac is shut down and head phone in
Visible screen refresh, the centre of the screen is clear but the
edges
seem to roll and quake. I think that has something to do with the
kinks
in the black cable that surround the CRT for some magnetic thing???
crashing in fullscreen mode for most Open GL games especially games
that launch movies
It is using an older IDE HD taken from a beige G3 and I received it
dismantled so more than likely there's static discharge damage
extra info: running 128MB RAM, OS 9.2, 4.2 GB HD rather than 13GB
Anyone else had extreme issues like this or know what's the best
option
apart from part harvesting or trash? Is there hope?
Regards Christian
By three strikes, if you mean three beeps, then this normally means
bad RAM.
If you've got 2 RAM chips in it then I would take one out. Otherwise I
would
take it out and replace it with another and see if it does the same
thing.
By the sound of it there may be other issues, but I would rule this
one out
first. :o)
Hope that helps.
Kind Regards
Daniel
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