Beeping while running

[Konstantin Svist]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Recently, one of my machines (running F8) has started beeping and I
> can't figure out the reason why.  After watching it this morning, I've
> noticed that every 30 minutes it seems to beep 20 times.  It almost
> sounds like a BIOS beep, but the machine has 177 days of uptime (and
> counting).  So, I'm wondering, what will cause 20 short beeps?  My
> wife describes it as almost sounding like a flute.  I figure its got
> to be a warning of some kind.  The motherboard is an ABit NF7-S2 with
> an AMD XP 2600+ CPU and 1.5GB of RAM (3 512MB sticks).
>

Sounds very much like a sound that most UPS units make when the battery
goes bad.. just saying :)