IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #8

Post #8 by Von

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 05:13
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/iisi-rom-sim-gives-death-chime-in-my-se-30s.17959/

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I think a better idea would be removing/unplugging the hard drive, all of the memory, any installed cards, etc. and just try to boot the Macintosh SE/30 with the bare motherboard and ROM SIMM. If you get a normal display, the SIMM should be fine, while one of your components (i.e: RAM) could be at fault.
Also, make sure you plugged in the ROM SIMM correctly; if you don't, you're gonna get a death chime and nothing else.

THx for the suggestion JLR. With the IIsi ROM installed minus all RAM and the HD I still get the chime of death. The display looks like the early SimasiMac shown here: http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html#SimasiMac I also swapped out the battery to see if that made any difference and it did not. Unfortunately my IIsi has its ROM on the motherboard so I can't test it in my IIsi.

When swap my stock SE/30 or the IIfx ROM sim in, both work fine.