Apple iMac G5 Beep of Death (i.e. "Vacuum Cleaner" mode)

I am now on my 3rd iMac in 2 weeks.
The first one was locking up after 40min. out of the box. This one lasted a week. Now when I turn it on, I get the 3 beeps of death. Then the imac fan goes on full blast. wow. scary.
Cannot boot off hardware diag cd, no target disk mode, open firmware boot, nothing.
Search on apple site, didnt show me anything useful, but googling it says that its bad ram.
I called apple support and the girl didnt even know what 3 beeps meant and had to look it up. Then when i asked for level 2 support, the guy was trying to instruct me on how to reseat the 512mb ram module. i told him its onboard, but he didnt believe me. this is so sad. I dont know how they can brag they won the j.d. power satisfaction surveys...i guess they really are a ipod company now...

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• apple
• mac
• ipod
• imac
• dead
• broken
• failure
• beep
• defect
• warranty

[bugylukki]

Ok 2 things could be happening 1 there is a tiny school in your computer and there was a fire drill. Or 2 the Finder cursed at you

[MacFreaks]

this is what the beeps mean:

• 1 beep = No RAM installed/detected

• 2 beeps = Incompatible RAM type installed

• 3 beeps = No RAM banks passed memory testing

• 4 beeps = No good boot images in the boot ROM

• 5 beeps = Bad ROM boot block or processor is not usable

[dobataylor]

its that hrdrive under yht computer are lose

[computerpro2000]

did u ever fix this issue i heard that if u remove the back cover of the imac and remove the ram and were the ram slots are u have to heat it u with a blow dryer but u have to move it around dont let in blow in one place

[Nielsapplefreak]

Thats youre ram

[MrInfamous405]

Actually..After doing research the 3 beeps means your iMac has no good banks (I don't know if it RAM or something else) but yeah that is your problem. So people who were referring to RAM may have been correct all this time.

[FoolyCoolyMabase]

well, at least now you can use it for cleaning the moquette

[shadow524951]

That's the only bad thing about Macs. They break down too easily.

[mickyd110011]

microsoft cursed your computer.

[TheNewGuysBELMM]

my power mac g4 does the same thing! is there a way to fix it?

[02500l]

LoL your iMac is trying to have a call but the person dosen't answer

[liveoles]

I guess the mac was trying to clean the dust in it. VACUUM CLEANER FTW!

Not funny? o well...