Beeps coming from running T60?
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 9:31 pm
Hi folks.
Yesterday I was in the kitchen and I heard four or five fast (about a half-second between I'd say) and quite loud beeps coming from the area of my desk. It's littered with electronics, some powered up, and I had no idea what might have made the sound. I checked the T60 that was running and, as far as I could ascertain, nothing was running outside of normal parameters. Puzzled but not unduly worried I went back to cooking my dinner.
About two hours later I was sitting at my T60 and the same series of beeps occurred and they seemed to come from the left side of the palmrest. (I wish I'd counted the beeps to be sure of the number but I must admit to having been in a bit of a panic. My FlexView T60s are very precious to me.)
Again I checked all parameters that I could. I have Notebook Hardware Control running with the ACPI function going so can see many temps from all over the machine and none seemed 'wrong'. I fired up Everest Ultimate and looked at the 'Sensors' screen and also checked the HDD status with Hard Disk Sentinel. Nothing was out of the ordinary that I could see.
I did the low-tech-check too, feeling all around the machine for hot-spots or anything untoward. I listened closely to the whole machine and, again, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. The sound seemed to have come from the area where the (empty) PC card slots are but that might be because that hollow part of the machine acted like an echo chamber or funnel of sorts.
The machine is pretty standard I guess. It's the first one in my sig and has been upgraded to 3GB of RAM and a 320GB 7.2K HDD. It sits in a port replicator attached to a Lenovo notebook stand at the highest setting so the screen is eye-level. Other than that, as far as I can think, everything is stock-standard. The CPU is undervolted but many an hour has been spent with Prime95 ensuring that it's rock-solid stable with the voltages it's running at. Also it never gives me the dreaded BSOD and is, in general, an extremely well-behaved machine.
Other than hearing that series of beeps twice there's nothing to suggest that anything's wrong with the machine. It's working just as well as it always does <touches wood>.... However I don't like mysteries. Especially when they involve my beloved FlexView-equipped T60.
Can anybody enlighten me? I'm not sure if I should be worried and that worries me!
Help please? TYVMIA.....
Yesterday I was in the kitchen and I heard four or five fast (about a half-second between I'd say) and quite loud beeps coming from the area of my desk. It's littered with electronics, some powered up, and I had no idea what might have made the sound. I checked the T60 that was running and, as far as I could ascertain, nothing was running outside of normal parameters. Puzzled but not unduly worried I went back to cooking my dinner.
About two hours later I was sitting at my T60 and the same series of beeps occurred and they seemed to come from the left side of the palmrest. (I wish I'd counted the beeps to be sure of the number but I must admit to having been in a bit of a panic. My FlexView T60s are very precious to me.)
Again I checked all parameters that I could. I have Notebook Hardware Control running with the ACPI function going so can see many temps from all over the machine and none seemed 'wrong'. I fired up Everest Ultimate and looked at the 'Sensors' screen and also checked the HDD status with Hard Disk Sentinel. Nothing was out of the ordinary that I could see.
I did the low-tech-check too, feeling all around the machine for hot-spots or anything untoward. I listened closely to the whole machine and, again, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. The sound seemed to have come from the area where the (empty) PC card slots are but that might be because that hollow part of the machine acted like an echo chamber or funnel of sorts.
The machine is pretty standard I guess. It's the first one in my sig and has been upgraded to 3GB of RAM and a 320GB 7.2K HDD. It sits in a port replicator attached to a Lenovo notebook stand at the highest setting so the screen is eye-level. Other than that, as far as I can think, everything is stock-standard. The CPU is undervolted but many an hour has been spent with Prime95 ensuring that it's rock-solid stable with the voltages it's running at. Also it never gives me the dreaded BSOD and is, in general, an extremely well-behaved machine.
Other than hearing that series of beeps twice there's nothing to suggest that anything's wrong with the machine. It's working just as well as it always does <touches wood>.... However I don't like mysteries. Especially when they involve my beloved FlexView-equipped T60.
Can anybody enlighten me? I'm not sure if I should be worried and that worries me!
Help please? TYVMIA.....
