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I just bought my Macbook today and tried to turn it on and I got continuous sets of three beeps...(beep;beep;beep;...beep;beep;beep)I sometimes get a greeting chime (the normal sound) and sometimes it goes to the "select language" but then the screen goes black and then just beeps. I've tried everything: RAM reset (cmnd; cntrl; p r); default (taking battery out and holding pwr button for 10sec; etc.) I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING and nothing works.
I grew up with Macs, and the family went to Windows, and now I'm a college student and always wanted to go back to Mac(just not enough money); and finally did and this is what I get? I'm upset!
I haven't done anything to it. I'm a little irritated. What should I do?
aaron
I bought a new macbook on March 26th. Powered it up for the first time on April 8th and the same thing happened to me. I checked the ram and it was covered in something white along the connectors. Cleaned it off with a microfiber cloth and reinstalled the ram. After that I at least made it past the blue screen to the choice of a language, then screen went gray again. I powered down and waited then powered on again, same thing three beeps and gray screen. I took it to the Apple store and the "genius" told me they put grease on the ram modules and that was the white substance on the connectors. He replaced the ram and the computer runs just fine now. He said the three beeps is a signal that the problem is the ram. Hope this helps.
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