Hi, Anyone here have an idea why this Acer Aspire Revo R3700 should have started chirping at random times, in clusters? I'm assuming it's connected to the warm weather.
The noise is a very short `chirp', consistent in duration and pitch; more deliberately generated rather than mechanical side-effect. The PC has a normal `BIOS beep' speaker, but I was wondering if it could be from a secondary piezoelectric speaker, perhaps on the hard drive? Speaking of which, the drive is a Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B HTS545016B9A300; the two-page specification I found makes no mention of noises. The PC has an AMI BIOS, but I wouldn't expect any of its code to be running once Linux has control as the kernel does it all itself based on ACPI tables? Recordings of `sensors' and `smartctl -x' over the days show no dramatic change other than background temperature pushing them all up a bit. Nothing unusual in the log files. I'm not alone. There are a few reports of noises like this on other types of PC, and several of them suggest it comes from the hard-drive area, e.g. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/287497-31-this-beep-driving-crazy Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-07-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:[email protected] / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
