Macbook pro 13 inch mid 2009 S.O.S morce code 9 beeps
Hi! So my problem is that i have Macbook Pro 13 inch mid 2009 and it makes S.O.S morce code sound? What does it mean and where can be the problem? i did read about firmware restoraition cd for macbookpro 5.5 but i cant find it anywhere? Please help me! I just bought this macbook used, and there was not a hard drive in it, but i got the all CD's that came with it, but theres no restoraition cd. Thank you!
Yes it is and here is more infromation about it.
2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM; supports up to 8GB
2.26GHz MacBook Pro
(MB990LL/A)
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory3
it came with 160gb hard drive but the seller took it becouse he had his own files in it, so u did put new 500GB hard drive in it.
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BANK 1/DIMM0
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DirectorShockwave.plugin
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iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
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o1dbrowserplugin.plugin
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SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
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Time Machine:
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2% EtreCheck
1% Google Chrome
1% hidd
1% Activity Monitor
0% fontd
0% sysmond
0% notifyd
0% ocspd
0% imagent
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115 MB Google Chrome
106 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
82 MB mds_stores
61 MB Activity Monitor
49 MB mds
49 MB Finder
41 MB WindowServer
33 MB Dock
33 MB Google Chrome Helper
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673 MB Inactive RAM
738 MB Wired RAM
1.42 GB Page-ins
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