Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Tim wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:00 -0400, 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. >>> >> No stuck keys on the keyboard? >> >> Anybody playing pranks on you? >> >> > Some bios's will do that if the cpu is getting too hot. > > >> -- >> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r >> 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 >> >> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I >> read messages from the public lists. >> > > Yeah, this is only mentioned every other message. For that matter, the BIOS might also monitor the fan speeds and many other temperatures. Maybe even voltage from the PSU. Usually the BIOS is supposed to tell you what the current temp/speed/voltage is. Or maybe it's an early version of Microsoft's Palladium - it realized that you're not running the "appropriate" software on your hardware an is complaining. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
