3 Beeps, Then Black Screen

[billg]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:11:17 -0400, "Jeff Ratliff" <jefrat at earthlink.net>
said:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 06:45:20PM -0400, billg wrote:
> > 
> > At seemingly random points during the install, the machine will emit 3
> > beeps and the monitor's screen will go black
> 
> Sounds like the system is going into standby mode.

Except that this only happens with Fedora, not with other distributions. 
I'm currently running Slackware on this machine, and it behaves nicely.
Plus, the machine doesn't otherwise beep when it goes into standby or
when I wake it up.