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3 short beep sound and a black screen on Mac computer
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3 short beep sound and a black screen on Mac computer
Hi. Can anyone help me with this problem. When i start my Mac Destop computer i get a blank screen and i get 3 short beep. What do you think is the problem? Pls anyone.
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try the bios beep guide in the guides forum if it has an intel based motherboard.
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What model? Maybe the Intel Mac Pros will beep, but I didn't think any of them did.
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class Mac tones historically have been a Major chord for ok vs a Minor chord arpeggio for failures
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3 short beeps is "Intel-ese" for a memory fault.
Don't know if that applies here, but on the other hand, bad memory will give you a nasty old black screen. |
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If I had to guess, I would say that they (any Mac) will not throw a 3 beep error. Thats too PC like for Apple to allow, so I'm interested in what machine this occurred on. Of course the dude has to come back to answer that...
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Three beeps on a PPC based Mac means it couldn't find any good memory.
I think it's the same on an Intel based Mac as well. |
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Hey thanks for all the tips but it was the memory that went bad in the computer
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WOW, No S*** Really...!
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