ibook question

hdcoolhdcool
Posted:
in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Hello,



My Girlfriend has an iBook G4 and something strange happened:

while listening to music, the screen blanked out, and the last note that was played before the blank continuously repeated as a beep beep beep beep beep beep.... .



Since I'm only a Mac user since august myself too and don't know so much about apple hardware yet, I'm curious what just happened. Anybody an idea?



Thanks already

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    gregmightdothatgregmightdothat Posts: 1,709member
    Sometimes if the computer crashes while playing music, the soundcard keeps looping over it's buffer since there's nothing replenishing it with the next part of the song. That's what causes that skipping.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    hdcoolhdcool Posts: 48member
    hmmm... but the whole computer just crashed...black screen, unusable. i told her to hold powerbutton, and restart... that worked, but i find it unhealthy
  • Reply 3 of 3
    gregmightdothatgregmightdothat Posts: 1,709member
    The sound card is phyisically seperate from the CPU, so it won't go down with the rest of your computer.
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