The peculiar thing is, the machine plays the death chimes even if I pull out
all the SIMMs (there is 1 meg on the motherboard) and disconnect everything
but the video/power and the speaker.  I think the solution might be just to
shell out the $20 for a new system and blame it on static electricity...

-----Original Message-----
From: M. Meschederu [mailto:Markus.Meschederu@lrz.uni-muenchen.de]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 2:08 AM
To: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: ...


>Sigh.  After finally accepting that my LC will never run anything but
MacOS,
>I scraped the bottom of my collection and brought up an old SE/30 that
>should be able to do NetBSD.  Problem is, shortly after I got it last year,
>I opened it up to add some RAM and since then it has been sounding "Death
>Chimes" every time I turn it on.  I think it has something to do with the
>video, but I'm not sure because I can't find a list of error tones to
>interpret the message.  The tones it is playing are the normal startup
sound
>immediately followed by four tones ascending in frequency.  Anyone know
>where I can get a list of what the tones mean?

Have you checked, whether these SIMMS are suitable for the SE/30.
Back in the days this machine was constructed, 4mb SIMMS sounded
like sciene fiction :-)
With my old SE/30 (32mb/1g/NetBSD 1.31) I had a similar problem after
putting in 4 4mb SIMMs. Apparently the SE/30 doesn't like all 4MB SIMMs,
mine had three Chips. These Chips worked in newer Macs like Q700 and IIci.
I traded the three chip SIMMs for eight chip SIMMs and everything worhed
fine.

Markus

Markus Meschederu - Network Administration - Faculty of Forest Science
M.Meschederu(a)LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE
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