Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-15 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Konstantin Svist wrote: Yeah, this is only mentioned every other message. For that matter, the BIOS might also monitor the fan speeds and many other temperatures. Maybe even voltage from the PSU. Usually the BIOS is supposed to tell you what the current temp/speed/voltage is. All of which ar

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-15 Thread Konstantin Svist
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Tim wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:00 -0400, 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 t

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Tim wrote: >On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:00 -0400, 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

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-15 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:00 -0400, 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. No stuck keys on the keyboard? An

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
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 machin

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Richard England
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

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:01:24PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:16:01 -0400 > "Kevin J. Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I seem to remember that > > my BIOS has an option to route the PC Speaker output through the onboard > > integrated soundcard, and I set it. > >

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:16:01 -0400 "Kevin J. Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to remember that > my BIOS has an option to route the PC Speaker output through the onboard > integrated soundcard, and I set it. Un-setting that would probably be a useful step to take toward finding out

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Seann Clark wrote: What runlevel are you on with that box? 3 or 5? I don't remember if you mentioned it in a prior post or not. If it is coming from the soundcard, I would more suspect a program wanting attention more than an actual problem. If it is running a GUI (runlevel 5 on Fedora) then I

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Seann Clark
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Christopher K. Johnson wrote: I don't know if this is a silly suggestion, because I don't know your physical setup. Any chance that the beeping is actually from an adjacent UPS instead? No, I've identified that the beeping is coming from my computer speakers plugg

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Christopher K. Johnson wrote: I don't know if this is a silly suggestion, because I don't know your physical setup. Any chance that the beeping is actually from an adjacent UPS instead? No, I've identified that the beeping is coming from my computer speakers plugged into the back of my com

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
I don't know if this is a silly suggestion, because I don't know your physical setup. Any chance that the beeping is actually from an adjacent UPS instead? Some provide similar indications when tested and there is an issue such as weak batteries, and your software for the UPS could be initiat

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Rick Stevens wrote: Silly idea, but have you checked /var/log/messages or dmesg to see if there are error messages that correspond to the beeping incidents? First thing I checked. Also check root's mail file to see if perhaps one of the cron.hourly scripts is running that's triggering it.

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Rick Stevens
Seann Clark wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Peter Larsen wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:37 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Konstantin Svist 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

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Seann Clark
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Peter Larsen wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:37 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Konstantin Svist 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

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Peter Larsen wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:37 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Konstantin Svist 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 minu

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Peter Larsen
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:37 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Konstantin Svist 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

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Konstantin Svist 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

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread 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 up

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:00 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Recently, one of my machines (running F8) has started beeping and I > can't figure out the reason why. Google for your motherboard and error codes, beeps, or other similar keywords. If it's not a code, it could be an over temperature

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Seann Clark 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 ha

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Seann Clark
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

Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
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