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    Single beep|M570TU

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Zenica, Sep 8, 2008.

  1. Zenica

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    I have started to notice my M570TU making a single beep at times.
    It has been doing it for a few weeks but never at the same time or during the same activity. It is proving difficult to duplicate and the system works within normal parameters. I keep checking temps but that isn't it.

    I would love to trace this beep to its cause but so far, no luck.

    Any thoughts?
     
    Zenica, Sep 8, 2008
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    open the bottom panel and trace to see if its coming from a component rather than the motherboard.
     
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    It happens soooo infrequent, I'd have to leave it open and maybe upside down for days...take the last 2 days...it hasn't done it.
     
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    Does it bear any correlation to whether or not you're typing rapidly when the system's under high load, or the fans are running and/or shifting speeds?

    Also, have you looked through the event logs to see if anything got logged that seems to relate to the beeping?
     
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    Hmm...I had to think about it to answer accurately, it is that infrequent.

    It does not seem to be connected to typing or fan speed. Well, with fan speed I can not be 100% certain, as a rule, I jack the fans to 100% using
    Fn+1 when ever it is on. I prefer the cooling power for the X9100

    The last time it did it, I wasn't even using it, it was just sitting there idle.

    I haven't checked the event logs...that thought had not occurred to me
    and I am not sure where they can be found, I know some are in the temp folders. For the record, my temp folders (all of them) have been rerouted to c:\temp\temp and c:\temp\tmp


    I've looked at them in the past, when I would get a BSOD but couldn't identify anything to narrow the fault....
     
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    after a BSOD make sure to do a CHKDSK C: /F (in Command Prompt) to clean up any HDD errors or orphan files that might have stuck around after the crash.
     
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    If it happens when you've got fans locked at 100%, then it probably isn't related to conflicts in the KBC controller between the keyboard and the fan controllers (the source of a number of odd beeps on these systems).

    If you're running XP, the event logs are accessed through the Administrative Tools object located in the control panel window.
     
    Shyster1, Sep 9, 2008
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