A loose simm
chip should have given you chimes of doom (or whatever the
IIci does, I think that one actually does a car crash noise) when it
booted.
I think it's car crash, too (but it could also be big-fat-nothing).
Somewhere I have an Apple Spec database that includes the noise each Mac
makes when it reports a problem. I don't see it on my hard drive now, so
I must have archived it at some point. I'll have to dig around and figure
out where it went.
Of course, you could ruin your uptime on your IIci with NetBSD and shut
it down, loosen a simm chip, and boot it up. Then you would know for sure
:-)
-chris
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