Is your motherboard relatively new? Many new motherboards use "real" sounds for system conditions. My Asus uses a U.K.-style police siren (beebaw, beebaw) to indicate an overheat or stopped fan condition.
Check your bios for system health monitoring - heat and fan RPM and see if they're all happy. Jim Davis > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:48 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: sot: i think im gettin hacked > > > its literally a siren. > like an ambulance or something like that, or fire or police, > one sound, woooop wooop wooop like > what people talked about with the ambulance virus, but that > one had the distinction of an ambulance racing across the screen.... > > sorry this is off topic, but you all may run into this someday... > > ...tony > > Tony Weeg > Senior Web Developer > UnCertified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > Information System Design > Navtrak, Inc. > Mobile workforce monitoring, mapping & reporting > www.navtrak.net 410.548.2337 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:41 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: sot: i think im gettin hacked > > > if I turn my speakers down, using the knob, not my system > sound...it goes away, its not coming from the box, > ive taken it offline, and after a reboot, it comes right > back, after like 2 minutes > > ...tony > > Tony Weeg > Senior Web Developer > UnCertified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > Information System Design > Navtrak, Inc. > Mobile workforce monitoring, mapping & reporting > www.navtrak.net 410.548.2337 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Densmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:27 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: sot: i think im gettin hacked > > > More than likely that siren sound is coming out of your > system speaker, not your regular speakers. There are some > systems that do give off a siren sound as it is POSTing. Have > you changed your cpu or memory recently? > > Ben > > -------Original Message------- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:35:35 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: sot: i think im gettin hacked > > can anyone please tell me if you have > ever had a strange siren sound off on your > machine, outta nowhere...even after a restart...i dont > have lockdown or anything like that running, i do have > xp, and i do have my xp firewall enabled... > > thanks! > > .....tony > > tony weeg > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.revolutionwebdesign.com > rEvOlUtIoN wEb DeSiGn > 410.334.6331 > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
