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    Loud bios beep when running on battery.

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by calibrah, Aug 17, 2009.

  1. calibrah

    calibrah Notebook Guru

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    Every time I boot my m17x up on the battery without the a adapter, it beeps very loudly on the screen where you press f1 to continue running on integrated graphics. Its kinda embarrassing when my alienware loudly beeps in the middle of class..

    Anyone else have this problem?
     
    calibrah, Aug 17, 2009
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  2. Monkeymadness

    Monkeymadness Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes, Mine does that at well.
    And when I get into windows I do not see the green nvidia incon in the taskbar, that shows u if u are running on integrated or descrete.
    And also I cannot turn on the 260m's, It gives me a warning that I need to connect the adapter.
    I presumed this was normal ? Havent really looked into it.
     
    Monkeymadness, Aug 17, 2009
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  3. kilthro

    kilthro Floating in Space

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    Yes it lets you know that something has changed.. Same thing happens when you change ram ect.. Its kinda there to let you know that there is a system message that needs your attention..

    At this time, I have not seen how to disable that beep.
     
    kilthro, Aug 17, 2009
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  4. calibrah

    calibrah Notebook Guru

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    Well it does a great job of getting my attention. ;)
     
    calibrah, Aug 17, 2009
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  5. lordqarlyn

    lordqarlyn Global Biz Consultant

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    Haha yeah it is kinda annoying....everytime that happened to me, my coworker would ask if I broke it....ironically, with my brick dead, I did in fact break it after all....
     
    lordqarlyn, Aug 17, 2009
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  6. ex2j

    ex2j Notebook Geek

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    is there any option to disable this msg? i like to boot normal(without disabling the hybrid sli mode) if i use it on battery
     
    ex2j, Aug 19, 2009
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    blade445 Notebook Consultant

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    I have asked the bios team about disabling this. They are working on it, there have been many complaints.
     
    blade445, Aug 19, 2009
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  8. J2P3B

    J2P3B Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh that'll really be annoying...
     
    J2P3B, Aug 19, 2009
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