PPC mac mini & single long beep before boot chime
In process of migrating from a 2005 PPC mac mini 1.1 with a disk error and sometimes at reboot, a very LOUD tone, not beep, results about 5 seconds before the boot chime. It only successfully boots via Safe Boot, into OS X 10.5.8.
This mac shipped with Panther, now running Leopard. It has failed Verify Disk - Repair Disk for quite some time.
Why the LOUD single tone (not beep) at boot up?
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2005 PPC 1.42