On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:19 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>
 wrote:

> Xubuntu 13.10, up to date.

...snip...
> There is no /var/log/messages file (where did they move it to?)
>

Has Xubuntu moved to systemd yet?  If so, then you might find more log info
with journalctl (as root):

journalctl -xn      # defaults to 10 lines of logs
journalctl -xn 500  # 500 lines
man journalctl


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:58 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:

> I wouldn't want to turn off the speaker in case something really serious
> happened.


Since Linux/Ubuntu is officially supported by the company you purchased the
laptop from, perhaps they could tell you if there are any known hardware
failure scenarios that might produce the beep.
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