MacBook doing Morse Code S.O.S.!!!

[Sdashiki]

I recall the Performas and Quadras having orchestral (like 8bit though) sounds for various errors.

missing video card was one
bad ram another

it was neat.

 

[Samuriajackon]

I remember trouble shooting Beep codes from 386 machines with (I think) Phoenix Bios...some things never change...

 

[finnschi]

maybe its a hint to... OS 11 ... "iceberg"

(they need to get away from cats, now seriously... Snow-Leopard.. is well kinda ... dumb even tho it makes sense .. a cleaner Leopard.. haha i get it..

 

[crackbookpro]

3 beeps means you have defective memory

9 beeps is a defective logic board

-CrackbookPro

 

[mattwolfmatt]

The beeping sounds calling for SOS are normal. Apple has a set of guidelines for the 3 different type of beeping they have for Macs. The SOS beep means bad logic board. Screens also flick with the beeps.

Since Apple sent you a box, it most likely means a replacement or a logic board change.

I wouldn't exactly say they're NORMAL.

Just had this happen today with an early 2009 imac. Weirdest thing: two minutes later it started up just fine. It's in a music technology lab, so fixing it will be challenging. It's under applecare, which is nice.

Thankfully I was able to start it up and back everything up. We'll see how long it lasts.

 

[jawa12083]

Wirelessly posted (iPod Touch 2G 8GB: Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7D11 Safari/528.16)

Maybe theres a dwarf living inside...

 

[JacaByte]

"Danger, leprechauns."

Remember when Macs would play taps if there was a hardware failure?

 

[TEG]

"Danger, leprechauns."

Remember when Macs would play taps if there was a hardware failure?

I thought it was a Zelda (NES) sound.

TEG

 

[bigbrodza]

Recording of S.O.S. MacBook

Alright guys my MacBook started doing this about three days ago. I recorded this to show you guys. It's pretty funny.

Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzLqYuesm2I&sns=em

 

[Andy707]

HI All

I know this is an old thread, but I just had the same problem.
Yeah, it pretty crazy hearing my macbook beep out S-O-S

In my case it was the ram that was the problem, seems I have a faulty unit, swapped it out for a smaller capacity spare chip and it was fine, put it back in and 'beep-beep-beep' again...

Andy

 

[jredo]

Same thing just happened to me!

I have an 18 month old Mac desktop. I ran the software update program from the apple icon. Then after reboot, a gray shade went down my computer monitor. When I did a hard reboot I heard the S.O.S.

After that, the CD that was in there ejected on the next reboot and from there on dead dead dead. I have an appointment with the local Mac store tomorrow.

 

[Jdogskizzle]

My old Mac also started beeping sos to me once I plugged it in, and now it is stuck on a white screen with a gray apple logo. Any ideas?

 

[Precursor]

Holy necro!