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Re: Annoying beeps on my Dell - they don't know what it is...

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From: Cobb
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.
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Subject: Re: Annoying beeps on my Dell - they don't know what it is...
Date: 2000/07/27
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