Thanks to all who replied -- see below: On Thursday, May 09, 2019 02:10:16 AM Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/8/19, Charlie Kravetz <char...@keepingdreams.com> wrote: > > Possibly an open website? Some of those become very annoying.
I'll look into that -- thankfully that is the computer that probably has only 30 to 40 tabs / webpages open, not close to a thousand like my other machine ;-) > I had something similar that sounded like a little 6" Elf sneezing in > my little ASUS laptop/netbook. Now I have to find a 6" Elf and blow some pepper in his face ;-) > 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 Sensors -f didnt work, so I had to install lm-sensors (which means sensors is not the source of the beep (you didn't say it was, but I guess it was a possibility (and man sensors doesn't say anything about a beep). The CPU (~115 F) and MB (~85F) temperature and fan speeds (case and CPU both around 2200 of a possible (according to sensors) 7200 rpm) all seem to be well within limits this morning, but I don't hear the beep this morning -- I'll look again if I start hearing the beep (it is a cooler morning -- maybe I'll encouter the problem again this (or tomorrow) afternoon. > ...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. :) Oh, and to Curt (from a different post): > In the event there is no functional motherboard speaker, I guess it > cannot be a BIOS alarm of any kind. Interesting -- I'm not used to / familiar with a speaker on the MB -- in the old days there was typically a speaker in the case that (if you were building your own) you had to connect. (And, so if there is no speaker, the BIOS can't signal an error?) > If the OP's somewhere in West Virginia, maybe Gene turned his up so loud > that it's audible down the block. I do live in Pa. (which is adjacent to WV), but on the other end of the state -- we probably have other people complaining if the beep was coming from Gene's machine. ;-)
