Subject: Re: Strange chime and not working
To: Armen Babikyan <armenb@moof.ai.mit.edu>
From: Mike Ekholm <ekholm@skypoint.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/31/1997 23:33:30
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Armen Babikyan wrote:
> >If I remember, A computer with no RAM will not send a video signal. the
> >chime is normal.
> >
>
> err, i don't think that Mac (or any mac?) will boot without RAM, let alone
> send a video signal. just add 4-256k's in there or something just to make
> it happy.
>
> on my IIvx, the video signal on my nubus video card does not get sent until
> long after the normal MacOS chime. The internal video signal, however, gets
> sent when I press the button, before the chime.
> maybe since the mac won't chime in the first place (missing ram?) the nubus
> video signal never comes through.
> - a
>
>
>
when I said the chime is normal, I was implying yhat the chime that he was
getting is normal for a Mac with no ram.
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