Beeping while running

[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 has 177 days of uptime (and 
>> counting).  So, I'm wondering, what will cause 20 short beeps?  My 
>> wife describes it as almost sounding like a flute.  I figure its got 
>> to be a warning of some kind.  The motherboard is an ABit NF7-S2 with 
>> an AMD XP 2600+ CPU and 1.5GB of RAM (3 512MB sticks).
>>
> Silly question, but did you check Hardware temps, and states? Some of 
> the ABIT/AMD's support overburn, and that sounds a lot like what my old 
> AMD 3k+ would do if it was getting too warm (or staying just too warm 
> enough,  but not enough to force a shutdown).

Running in the 30's Celsius.  CPU is 37, case is 30.

> ~Seann
> 


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