From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 4:28:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A32437B402 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 04:28:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0HCSSp26840; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:28:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karelj) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:27:08 +0100 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" To: Michael E Mercer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: machine beeps periodically. Message-ID: <20020117132706.A26318@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> References: <3C460679.5D3BCF7F@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C460679.5D3BCF7F@nc.rr.com>; from mmercer@nc.rr.com on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:02:18PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:02:18PM -0500, Michael E Mercer wrote: > Hello all, > > I have noticed my freebsd machine is doing a system beep periodically. > I would like to turn this off, however do not have a clue where to start. > > Has anyone had this happen before? How did you remedy it? > Wild guess: maybe a fan is broken and/or your system is overheating causing the BIOS to issue warning beeps. I had it on a hot summer day playing a CPU intensive game... Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message