Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-10 Thread rhkramer
Just to provide an update -- the current status is that the beep is not occurring atm, but it has been just a little cooler. If I get a chance, I'll take that machine down and clean out any dust and such, or, if the beeping resumes I'll try some of the ideas suggested here. As an aside, the ma

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 20:46:34 (+0200), Jan Claeys wrote: > On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 09:56 +, Curt wrote: > > In the event there is no functional motherboard speaker, I guess it > > cannot be a BIOS alarm of any kind. > > Some on-board audio chips are wired up so that they can emulate old > schoo

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Jan Claeys
On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 09:56 +, Curt wrote: > In the event there is no functional motherboard speaker, I guess it > cannot be a BIOS alarm of any kind. Some on-board audio chips are wired up so that they can emulate old school IBM PC compatible motherboard speakers/buzzers. -- Jan Claeys (p

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, May 09, 2019 10:08:41 AM Martin wrote: > I had this looong time ago. Caused by a noisy/broken keyboard cable. My be > there could be a situation similar on modern USB base keyboards? Thanks for the reply! I'll watch for hints that could be the problem -- I use one keyboard / mouse /

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> 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 y

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 09:57:38 am Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2019 05:56:58 am Curt wrote: > > On 2019-05-09, Cindy Sue Causey 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 > > > s

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Martin
Am 09.05.19 um 02:32 schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com: > On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a beep > (through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep > that > used to come out of the PC speaker (on older computers -- I don't think I > even

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 05:56:58 am Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-09, Cindy Sue Causey 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 > >

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread rhkramer
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 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

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, Cindy Sue Causey 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.. > > $ sensor

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/8/19, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2019 20:32:49 -0400 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >>On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a >> beep >>(through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep >> that >>used to come out of the PC spe

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-08 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Wed, 8 May 2019 20:32:49 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a beep >(through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep that >used to come out of the PC speaker (on older computers -- I don't think I eve

Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-08 Thread rhkramer
On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a beep (through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep that used to come out of the PC speaker (on older computers -- I don't think I even have that speaker connected on this computer). The beep occu