[DM-MUG] problems with MacBook Pro [small one] in Chile

[Jon Thompson]

If the beep is from the hard drive, then no. If it is a Mac OS X Beep,  
you can turn on the flash screen option in the Universal Access SysPref.

On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:

> Just curious as a Deaf person, any visual notifications we can look  
> for instead of the beep? :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
> On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:35 , AB wrote:
>
>> Apple Care will pay for shipping if she bought Applecare and it has  
>> not expired.if it beeps on start up with a ?mark it is a start up  
>> systems folder issue and she's lucky if it boots and should not  
>> shut it down untill she's sure she wants to and willing to accept  
>> it may not start up again. I'd call Apple. or to circumvent the $50  
>> phone call tech support fee for non-applecare products, she could  
>> call an Apple Store and ask the Genius, then she'd have to find a  
>> certified and authorized Apple Technician to work on her laptop in  
>> Chile.
>>
>> Sounds similar to the warning beeps I've had with harddrive or  
>> motherboard issues.
>>
>> -AB
>>
>> --- On Tue, 10/20/09, Victoria L. Herring <VLH at HerringLaw.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Victoria L. Herring <VLH at HerringLaw.com>
>> Subject: [DM-MUG] problems with MacBook Pro [small one] in Chile
>> To: "MUG Des Moines" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 1:51 PM
>>
>> Our daughter has a 12/13" MBP and is in Chile in a tiny town.  She
>> just called [Skype] and says that the machine is running really slow,
>> takes a minute to open up applications and it beeps at her.  She is
>> running Tiger still.  She is also moving off the computer everything
>> she wants to save.
>>
>> Any thoughts on what is going on or what she can do?
>> -- 
>> Victoria L. Herring, Des Moines, Iowa. Blogs:
>> http://blog.JourneyZing.com  [photography];
>> http://www.herringlaw.com  [civilrights/discrimination];
>> http://victorialherring.typepad.com/serendipity/  [personal].
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