David A. Gatwood wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 1999, Takashi Hamada wrote:
> 
> > Colin Wood wrote:
> > > recently, my SE/30 has decided to start doing something a little strange
> > > at boot.  when i first turn it on, it will come up with a bizarre
> > > checkered pattern (more grey than black&white), and it won't chime at all.
> > > i can hit the reboot button or power cycle the machine, but to no effect.
> > > however, if i let it sit powered-up for about 3-5 minutes, it will
> > > eventually chime and begin the boot process.
> > 
> > I once heard that this behavior is caused by poor contact of the ROM SIMM 
> > socket. Please try cleaning the ROM SIMM socket and re-inserting the ROM 
> > SIMM to it. Mine revived by this way. Hope this helps.
> 
> Also, and this is a bit of a stretch, but you might check the PRAM
> battery.  Machines tend to sit there for a while doing a much more
> thorough than usual test of RAM and stuff if the PRAM battery is down, or
> at least some systems do weird things like that... though I thought they
> chimed before that.  Dunno.  Anyway, just a thought.  :-)

i'll look into these...

thanks guys! 

-colin