six beeps from a 164LX machine

Marc Schlensog mschlens at redhat.com
Mon Dec 1 09:19:18 UTC 2008


On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:35:44 +0900 (JST)
Kazuyoshi Furutaka <furutaka at jb3.so-net.ne.jp> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This evening, one of my 164LX machine (11 years old, purchased
> from DCG computer, Inc.) start emitting 6 beeps when booting...
> 
> Sigh...
> 
> According to its User's Manual, the meaning of the beep code
> is "Checksum error detected when image was read back from 
> memory."
> 
> Are there any ways to revive it???

Does the LX have a fail safe loader? Sounds like a broken firmware.

b.r.,

Marc




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