New macbook won't boot.

[InsomniaCalls]

Hi all,

Bought a macbook which arrived yesterday.
Left it asleep overnight and this morning I opened the lid and although the drive made a noise, no display. Pressed some random buttons (space, esc etc) but no better. Tapped the power button but nothing so I held down the power (fool that I am).
Now when I turn it on I get to the grey screen with 2 beeps, followed by 3 beeps. Just keeps beeping three times after that.
I've reset the PRAM and the power manager but still doing the same.

Any ideas? Have I killed my new baby?

TIA

Si

 

[InsomniaCalls]

Yes I did update to 10.5.2 but I have used it since. I can't swear that I've rebooted it since the initial reboot though.
I haven't changed the hardware at all but I guess it could be a dodgy batch.

I haven't backed it up, but nothing on there yet really.
If all else fails I'll use the disk.

 

[InsomniaCalls]

Seemingly I can't boot from DVD. Nice.

 

[InsomniaCalls]

Thanks for your help anyway.
I've asked on the Apple Discussion groups and if I don't get anywhere I'll call support.

 

[InsomniaCalls]

I've re-seated the RAM after someone suggested a memory issue but no joy.
Support are closed so I guess it'll have to wait.

 

[InsomniaCalls]

Hmm. Swapped the RAM with my iMac and both now work.
I'll give re-seating another go.

 

[InsomniaCalls]

Yeah still confused.
I have two 1Gb sticks from my iMac which work fine in the Macbook.
I also have two 256Mb sticks which work fine in the Macbook.
The two 512Mb sticks work in my iMac but not in the Macbook. Very strange.

 

[InsomniaCalls]

Or buy 2x2GB RAMs...

Went with this option in the end.

 

[InsomniaCalls]

So you are paying more money for something that wasn't your fault. Whatever floats your boat I guess.

Meh. Upgrade was going to happen anyway - this just sped up the process.