Some of you may have heard vociferous complaints from me about my Powerbook emitting a beeping sound when I attempt to start it up. It's three beeps, and then it simply refuses to work.
This is only the case, oddly enough, when I'm trying to use the Powerbook with its top open. If I have an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor, I can leave the top closed and it functions perfectly. The second I open that case, however, it freezes.
I have ascertained that the three beeps it gives me are a system error which tells me that the Powerbook cannot find functioning RAM banks. Why this should only be the case with the top open, I cannot say, unless there's a short circuit somewhere in the RAM that having the top closed resolves.
Which doesn't make sense -- the RAM shouldn't be related to the case in any way.
But there you have it. Now I just have to figure out what to DO about it.
Yuck.
-David
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