Beeping while running

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Wed Oct 15 02:53:37 UTC 2008


Richard England wrote:
> 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).
>>
> 
> Maybe it's the back up signal.  After running forward for so many days 
> it has to backup to make room to move forward again....
> 
> Sorry,...couldn't help myself,...I'll crawl back in my hole, now.

LOL

> ~~R

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