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Article #3453Re: Annoying beeps on my Dell - they don't know what it is...
From: Cobb
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:00
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I had that going on when my new Athlon was overheating. Chris Milkosky wrote in message <8lpo31$r4i$1@news.monmouth.com>... >I can't quite put my finger on the cause of this oddity, and I usually can >figure these obscure things out... ;] > >My Dell XPS T800r, running Windows 2000, has recently started to beep every >so often during normal operation (I'm not talking about the boot up beeps - >this occurs after the OS has taken control). The beep doesn't come out of >the desktop speakers however. It comes from the motherboard - that little >piezo or whatever speaker onboard that is usually used when things fail in >BIOS.... It seems like it is beeping in a random time interval, sometimes >once every 2 minutes, sometimes once every 20 minutes. This is not a series >of beeps either. Just a single beep that just occurs seemingly at random. <clipped to save bandwidth>
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