Imac intel only beeps when I turn on

iMac (Intel) only beeps when I power on as the monitor screen remain blanks.. Did my drive just crash and burn??

Please look over Start up tones iMac Mid 2007 and later and see if the tones match what Apple states in the advice letter. If not then I'd say your next stop is an AASP or Apple Store to be professionaly diagnosed.

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My Airport Time Capsule only works when I turn off and turn on, but I think this may end up with the unit. What can this happening and how to solve?

Time Capsule Airport
Hello to all, good day, sorry my english google, but it is the tool I have at the moment. I'm having trouble with my Time Capsule Airport, I made all the settings according to the manual, but there has been a connection problem with my iMac. When I finish my work I turn off the imac and then again when they return to work and care, it can not connect to Time Capsule Airport, making it impossible to remove the files and make back up by Time Machine only works when I turn off and turn on the Airport Time Capsule , but I think this may end up with the unit. What can this happening and how to solve? Thank you.
Olá a todos, bom dia, desculpe meu inglês google, mas é a ferramenta que tenho no momento. Estou tendo dificuldades com a minha Airport Time Capsule, fiz todas as configurações de acordo com o manual, mas tem existido um problema de conexão com meu iMac. Quando termino meus trabalhos desligo o imac e depois quando retorno pra trabalhar novamente e ligo, ele não se conecta a Airport Time Capsule, impossibilitando retirar os arquivos e fazer o back-up pelo Time Machine, só funciona quando desligo e ligo a Airport Time Capsule, mas acho que isso pode acabar com o aparelho. O que pode esta acontecendo e como resolver? Obrigado.

This is easier to do with pictures perhaps.. since we do not share a common language and machine translation leaves a lot to be desired.
In the airport utility bring up your Time Capsule.
Simply post the screenshots here.
So here is mine.
Click on the Edit button and give us the Internet and Wireless and Network tab..
eg.
Please also make sure you are set to ipv6 in your wireless or ethernet .. whichever is used.. and do tell which.
This is wifi in your computer.
The following are important..
DO not use long names with spaces and non-alphanumeric names.
Use short names, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
eg TC name. TCgen5
Wireless name TCwifi
Use WPA2 Personal security with 10-20 character pure alphanumeric password.
read apple instructions to help with TM and TC.. they did finally admit it has issues in Mavericks.
OS X Mavericks: Time Machine problems
Mount the TC manually in finder.
AFP://TCgen5.local
When asked for the password .. that is the disk access password and save it in the keychain.
Reset Time Machine
See A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

My computer beeps when I turn it on . I have tried to reset pram but can't get past the beeps.

My computer beeps when I turn it on . I have tried to reset pram but can't get past the beeps.

The beeps (or flashes) are usually an indication that there is no working RAM. This article gives some examples, but the concept applies widely across many Mac models.
iMac (Mid 2007) and later models: About startup tones

Why is the brightness of my iMac become 100% automatically when I turn on..

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I want to set the brightness to the lowest every time I turn on the computer automatically.
Is there anything I can do?

Hi,
There seems to be a serious issue with screen brightness on the 24" iMac. About 6 days ago I bought a 24" iMac (2.66 Mhz model w/4 GB RAM + 640HD).
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1. Screen brightness was way too BRIGHT. Display preferences would not pull brightness down. At least not down far enough so that the screen could be viewed without extreme discomfort. Plus add insult to injury a reboot would reset the preferences to maximum brightness. NOTE: An upgrade to 10.6.1 did NOT fix the issue.
2. Viewing a browser page via either Safari or Firefox (latest versions of each) was not good. A vertical scrolling would be jumpy and appear pixelated. Upgrade to 10.6.1 seemed to fix most of the issue in Safari, but Firefox was still not working properly. The issue appeared like a horizontal "ripple" in about the bottom 2/3 of the browser window. The effect did NOT extend outside of browser window. Changing screen resolutions did not work.
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Returned with the iMac to the Apple store. Bottom line, after nearly three hours; the Apple technician, and everyone could see what we were talking about.
Regarding the screen brightness. Nothing they could do about it. They stated that "not too many people have complained about it, to their knowledge." They stated that the electronics in the "florescent" panel could not be turned down the same way. TRANSLATION: The programers at Apple let this one slip past them. As a customer (software programmer & network analyst) I expected a bit more of an intelligent answer.
However.
Examining the 20" model I noticed that we could turn down the screen brightness - at least to a level that my wife and I could live with. PLUS the settings remained after a restart. Something that was NOT happening with the 24" model.
So - we exchanged the 24" for a 20". Frankly we are a LOT happier. The Safari/Firefox issue is still carried over to the 20". However it is not nearly so noticable on the smaller screen.
Plus the USB headset did not cause the same Sound Preference issues.
So - Thanks for the speedy return/exchange of the iMac. But someone needs to look at this from the programming side of things.

I get 3 beeps when I turn on my mini ipod what does that mean?

I have a mini ipod and I am getting 3 beeps when I turn it on what does that mean as I cannot get any music?

This is an iPod mini ("mini iPod"), or the iPod shuffle shown in your profile info?
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Hi,
I was working with my iMac, the screen was suddenly frozen, then I tried to restart it manually, after turing it on again,
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Hi.
I've an iMac Intel dualcore 17" 1,5GB RAM and 160GB.
I've searched the internet for over 2weeks now and i haven't find the solution for my problem. I called Apple and they didn't know what the problem was.
My problem:
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Hello IOO and Welcome to Apple Discussions!
I can't say for sure what the problem is, but reinstalling Tiger (both disk) should take under an hour!
I can only suspect that there might problem with your HD, run the "Apple Hardware Test" as out lined in the following article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
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IMac Intel Core 2 Duo Screen Turning Off

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A good chance, but...
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Hello,
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I thought more about your issue after my last reply and the only other thing that came to mind was the logic board or power supply problem.
Try running the Apple Hardware Test, it may or may not find an intermittent power problem.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
Your best bet is to take the iMac in to your local Apple Service Provider or Apple Store and have them test it. If you purchased Apple Care with your iMac then all testing and repairs will be covered.

BlackBerry keeps beeping all time - Only beeps when the connection with carrier is active.

Sirs,
I have a Curve 8900 with the 4.6.1.133 (platform 4.2.0.85).
This device keeps beeping every 10 seconds, I have tried remove the battery when the BB was on, waiting for 1 minute, put it again.
I have looked all configurations.
I don´t have any idea and want to throw it in the window.
Any ideas? Hints?
NEW INFORMATION. The device only keeps beeping if the wireless connection with the carrier is active. If it´s disabled the beeps stops. I´m using Claro in Brazil.
Camilo
Message Edited by camilotelles on 02-28-2009 08:14 AM
Message Edited by camilotelles on 02-28-2009 08:14 AM
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I have found the solution. This is a bug beetween a software in the SIM Card from the network operator and the BlackBerry device. It´s already solved. I had to follow some steps to enable and disable a specific feature of the network operator and wait for a dialog box to confirm my operation.
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HT1895 Gray screen and 3 beeps when I turn on laptop, help.

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The PC beeps when I turn the PC on

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Still, these are BIOS Beep Codes. They will tell you when there is a problem with your computer. Since you just made some changes to the CPU, I believe this may be your problem. Read the guide that I have provided in the link. This should help you solve the problem.
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IMac (Intel) only displays white screen with Apple after power-outage

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You HD probably crashed. Please run Apple Hardware Test in Extended Mode and see if it reports any errors. If it does please post them and we will try to translate them.
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