Because of the unique situation where the computer would start to resume just fine and then get the 3 tones, it seemed related to the safe sleep file (/private/var/vm/sleepimage). I decided that instead of calling Apple back, I would try fixing this myself since it appeared to be a software issue not a hardware issue.

The technician booted up the laptop using the special Apple network diagnostics and all of the hardware 'checked out' as just fine. I called Apple to schedule a visit with my local Apple authorized technician, in Redding, CA). I proceeded to re-seat the RAM and run a RAM diagnostics test ('rember' from Kelley Computing, ), the test passed. During that time the front LED would flash at the same pattern.īecause I had replaced the RAM (came with 4, wanted 8, but didn't want to pay the Apple price, so instead I bought from - they are amazing) I had suspected that maybe the RAM was bad or that it wasn't seated properly. the battery went completely dead while the computer was asleep, causing it to resume from the sleep image file when power was plugged in) when I would bring it out of safe sleep it would make it 50% through the resume process and then I would get 3 tones/beeps separated by about 5 seconds and then repeating the same sequence.

I ran into an issue with my wife's MacBook Pro (Early 2011, 2.0 i7) where anytime it would go into safe sleep (i.e.

Macbook pro 3 beeps