Beep Beep Options

[don says mac]

that's exactly what i hear when i boot my g4.

i just bought new ram off ebay from ramdirect. the seller had 100% positive feedback and almost 10 000 sales, so i figured it'd be alright. when i google searched my problem (pairs of beeps at start up) i found that it could be a RAM issue. however, i've had my RAM installed for almost a week now and everything has been fine until now. nothing else seems to be wrong except that i get the beeps.

any suggestions?

powermac g4 quicksilver (single processor) 867mhz
panther
1gig ram (2oldx256 & 1newX512)

thanks, again
d.

[lepetitmartien]

Unplug everything with a plug inside the mac and plug it back.

Check for dust into slots (bit of dry air…)

Reset the motherboard if it's possible (unplug from mains, open, touch the metal, remove the lithium battery, press the tiny tiny button near it for 20 seconds, put the battery back, close, replug to main, boot) in case it's something wrong on the soft side (but usually beeps means hardare trouble)

test your RAM if you can boot in OS9 (use gauge pro (free) or techtools)

Run the hardware tests from techtools anyway.

If all this doesn't work (outside RAM) you've got something bad happening somewhere.