I have a second hand 12" PowerBook G4 that sometimes will not boot. It will sometimes chime and the LCD will stay black. Like I said this does not always happen. I have already tried to reset the PRAM and PMU and this does not seem to have any bearing on the machine. Can you guys help me out?
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12" PowerBook G4 Chimes but won't always boot.
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how often does it chime and in what intervals?
There was a post around here yesterday about a similar issue. The chimes represent an error code which can be looked up on the apple website. For newer machines, one chime in 5s intervals stands for a RAM error - but I'm not sure if it's the same for older machines.
I'll leave the googling up to you!
