beep beep - not starting up!

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mattD

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Help please!

I've had my G4 14 months, i put 10.2 not so long ago and its been fine. I've not added any hardware etc but this last week when i've tried to start up it just goes 'beep beep' with a grey screen. Its also been doing this from sleep mode ie not waking up and just double beeping at me...

other times after i get past the grey screen i get the folder icon with a ? flashing in it.

when i start up from the osX cd it wants to install the software - when i then access disk utility it seems to think the master h/d is empty!

i've checked all the external and internal connections, zapped the pRAM and given it a couple of doses of first aid...

nothing seems to make a difference but will start up eventually after continual rebooting...

can anyone help/have any advice? doesn't sound too good...

thanx much appreciated,

mattD
 
look on the apple web site for startup chime information - it may give a clue. I would, but I cannot connect at the moment because my ISP is having problems.
 
A double-beep, if I'm not mistaken, usually means a problem with some of the RAM that is installed in the machine. Make sure all your RAM modules are seated correctly and are of the right type (PC100/133/etc.). Also, one or more of them may have gone bad. Try removing any RAM modules you installed yourself and leave only the Apple-supplied RAM. If that works, slowly add back RAM modules until you find the bad one.
 
Yeah, two beeps at startup indicates that incompatible RAM types may be installed.

You might also try the Apple Hardware Test disc that came with your system and see if it finds any problems with the RAM.
 
ta, will take a look, the troubleshootin section said beeps were associated with ram problems, but didn't think this was the case cuz i've not put any in recently and didnt kno they can 'go bad'...(!) phew if thats what it is... but damn need more ram :)
 
(actually the more i use my brain) not turned the puter off yet but box from memory says pc133 133mhz... not pc100...
 
Well, I've actually got PC133 RAM running in my setup, and it's supposed to take PC100 RAM. Most PC133 RAM is backwards-compatible, meaning you can use it in a system that requires PC100 RAM. There are certain "cheap" PC133 modules that don't work that way so well, so I would suggest removing the PC133 RAM you've got in there and see if it still gives you the double-beep.
 
tried it now with each ram chip on its own... worked and failed with each........ wos that mean.... 2 months out of warrenty too,, soopa....
 
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