On 2019-05-09, Cindy Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I had something similar that sounded like a little 6" Elf sneezing in > my little ASUS laptop/netbook. Same deal where it was very sporadic. > It turned out to most likely be a warning that it was about to *CLICK* > off due to overheating.. > > $ sensors -f
In the event there is no functional motherboard speaker, I guess it cannot be a BIOS alarm of any kind. If the OP's somewhere in West Virginia, maybe Gene turned his up so loud that it's audible down the block. > ...gets me what I need for now. Others may have better favorites that > provide really cool feedback. "sensors -f" provides the (hopefully > correct) CPU temps plus the threshold they're not supposed to touch. > Also provides fan speed... that's actually a number larger than zero > in mine these days. :) > > Cindy :) -- The boys at first were very polite about my medals and asked me what I had done to get them. I showed them the papers, which were written in very beautiful language and full of fratellanza and abnegazione, but which really said, with the adjectives removed, that I had been given the medals because I was an American. - "Another Country"