Re: Mysterious Alert Beep
Hi Ronni I seldom open the widgets - only four are activated: iStat Pro, Calculator, Weather and Stocks. I can't detect any sound setting associated with them. Sound source was difficult to pinpoint: it was definitely not a smoke alarm, mobile phone or the fridge door - -.There are four Firewire external drives attached. One is definitely a likely culprit. Drives are located on a shelf just above the iMac display. I re-organised my movie collection yesterday and moved 4-500GB to a new drive. The background Spotlight Sandbox thingy has been generating many log entries in Console - an assumed consequence of moving the files I will later change Computer Sleep back to 'Never' and try and stimulate some glass chimes. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:54 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, Yes, Funk is the default alert sound in System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects. Did you have any external drives attached when your heard the 'beep'? I would disconnect any external drives from the Mac to eliminate if one of them causing the 'beep'. Also check any widgets in Dashboard, one of them might give an alert 'beep' sound. If you are hearing three beeps Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 1:40 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sound effects for alerts and whatever should be the installed defaults. Mail new message sound is - New Message Sound. My quick read-around on alert tones directed me to the System Preferences Sound - sound effects. I didn't realise that the highlighted tone was a user set default. I clicked on each one to hear the sound generated and glass seemed nearest to (but not quite?) the alert I heard. Funk is (was?) the tone heard when I try to do an operation that the computer doesn't like. Is this the default alert? My problem noise was definitely not a beep, beep, beep sound. It was a single higher pitched noise of the same duration as the others and occurred independently of any action on my part. BTW I would have had iTunes as another app that was on for at least some of the time. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:00 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: In System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects, do you have 'Glass' selected as an alert sound? Or is it a beep, beep, beep sound? Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 12:31 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Several times this morning I heard an unknown alert beep at irregular intervals. Possibly glass tone. No physical info window with messages appeared. Computer has been running with System Preferences Energy Saver 'Computer Sleep Never' since about 9pm last night. I 'Shut Down' the computer around 10.30am in case it was an overheating problem. Didn't think to check the Dashboard ProStat Widget until later. Fan noise remained unaltered throughout, but not fast or loud. Restarted computer after 30 minutes, reset Energy Saver preferences to Default (Computer Sleep after 10 minutes) but then got another beep about 15 minutes later. Been quiet for about an hour since. How do I determine what app may have generated the sound? The only foreground on apps have been Finder, Mail, Safari, EyeTV and Console. The only references to alert sounds that seemed anyway relevant in Help refer to the startup sequence. What was it? Do I ignore it, worry about it, or check my insurance and make a booking with the repair shop? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mysterious Alert Beep
Alan Sorry if I've missed this in Ronni's input, but are you sure it's not a notification of new mail coming in? A single noise now and again made me think of an email arriving. You've said you have Mail open. Can you close it for a while and see if the sound still occurs? Tim Sent from my iPhone On 12/10/2012, at 2:49 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I seldom open the widgets - only four are activated: iStat Pro, Calculator, Weather and Stocks. I can't detect any sound setting associated with them. Sound source was difficult to pinpoint: it was definitely not a smoke alarm, mobile phone or the fridge door - -.There are four Firewire external drives attached. One is definitely a likely culprit. Drives are located on a shelf just above the iMac display. I re-organised my movie collection yesterday and moved 4-500GB to a new drive. The background Spotlight Sandbox thingy has been generating many log entries in Console - an assumed consequence of moving the files I will later change Computer Sleep back to 'Never' and try and stimulate some glass chimes. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:54 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, Yes, Funk is the default alert sound in System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects. Did you have any external drives attached when your heard the 'beep'? I would disconnect any external drives from the Mac to eliminate if one of them causing the 'beep'. Also check any widgets in Dashboard, one of them might give an alert 'beep' sound. If you are hearing three beeps Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 1:40 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sound effects for alerts and whatever should be the installed defaults. Mail new message sound is - New Message Sound. My quick read-around on alert tones directed me to the System Preferences Sound - sound effects. I didn't realise that the highlighted tone was a user set default. I clicked on each one to hear the sound generated and glass seemed nearest to (but not quite?) the alert I heard. Funk is (was?) the tone heard when I try to do an operation that the computer doesn't like. Is this the default alert? My problem noise was definitely not a beep, beep, beep sound. It was a single higher pitched noise of the same duration as the others and occurred independently of any action on my part. BTW I would have had iTunes as another app that was on for at least some of the time. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:00 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: In System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects, do you have 'Glass' selected as an alert sound? Or is it a beep, beep, beep sound? Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 12:31 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Several times this morning I heard an unknown alert beep at irregular intervals. Possibly glass tone. No physical info window with messages appeared. Computer has been running with System Preferences Energy Saver 'Computer Sleep Never' since about 9pm last night. I 'Shut Down' the computer around 10.30am in case it was an overheating problem. Didn't think to check the Dashboard ProStat Widget until later. Fan noise remained unaltered throughout, but not fast or loud. Restarted computer after 30 minutes, reset Energy Saver preferences to Default (Computer Sleep after 10 minutes) but then got another beep about 15 minutes later. Been quiet for about an hour since. How do I determine what app may have generated the sound? The only foreground on apps have been Finder, Mail, Safari, EyeTV and Console. The only references to alert sounds that seemed anyway relevant in Help refer to the startup sequence. What was it? Do I ignore it, worry about it, or check my insurance and make a booking with the repair shop? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mysterious Alert Beep
Hi Tim Thanks for your input. No, my sound is not associated with emails. I have now determined that the tone is coming from an external hard drive undergoing read/write activity, but I cannot precisely locate the trigger event. The most recent alert tone occurred while I was standing up away from the computer. I'll post back later with my findings. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 3:43 PM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Alan Sorry if I've missed this in Ronni's input, but are you sure it's not a notification of new mail coming in? A single noise now and again made me think of an email arriving. You've said you have Mail open. Can you close it for a while and see if the sound still occurs? Tim Sent from my iPhone On 12/10/2012, at 2:49 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I seldom open the widgets - only four are activated: iStat Pro, Calculator, Weather and Stocks. I can't detect any sound setting associated with them. Sound source was difficult to pinpoint: it was definitely not a smoke alarm, mobile phone or the fridge door - -.There are four Firewire external drives attached. One is definitely a likely culprit. Drives are located on a shelf just above the iMac display. I re-organised my movie collection yesterday and moved 4-500GB to a new drive. The background Spotlight Sandbox thingy has been generating many log entries in Console - an assumed consequence of moving the files I will later change Computer Sleep back to 'Never' and try and stimulate some glass chimes. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:54 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, Yes, Funk is the default alert sound in System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects. Did you have any external drives attached when your heard the 'beep'? I would disconnect any external drives from the Mac to eliminate if one of them causing the 'beep'. Also check any widgets in Dashboard, one of them might give an alert 'beep' sound. If you are hearing three beeps Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 1:40 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sound effects for alerts and whatever should be the installed defaults. Mail new message sound is - New Message Sound. My quick read-around on alert tones directed me to the System Preferences Sound - sound effects. I didn't realise that the highlighted tone was a user set default. I clicked on each one to hear the sound generated and glass seemed nearest to (but not quite?) the alert I heard. Funk is (was?) the tone heard when I try to do an operation that the computer doesn't like. Is this the default alert? My problem noise was definitely not a beep, beep, beep sound. It was a single higher pitched noise of the same duration as the others and occurred independently of any action on my part. BTW I would have had iTunes as another app that was on for at least some of the time. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:00 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: In System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects, do you have 'Glass' selected as an alert sound? Or is it a beep, beep, beep sound? Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 12:31 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Several times this morning I heard an unknown alert beep at irregular intervals. Possibly glass tone. No physical info window with messages appeared. Computer has been running with System Preferences Energy Saver 'Computer Sleep Never' since about 9pm last night. I 'Shut Down' the computer around 10.30am in case it was an overheating problem. Didn't think to check the Dashboard ProStat Widget until later. Fan noise remained unaltered throughout, but not fast or loud. Restarted computer after 30 minutes, reset Energy Saver preferences to Default (Computer Sleep after 10 minutes) but then got another beep about 15 minutes later. Been quiet for about an hour since. How do I determine what app may have generated the sound? The only foreground on apps have been Finder, Mail, Safari, EyeTV and Console. The only references to alert sounds that seemed anyway relevant in Help refer to the startup sequence. What was it? Do I ignore it, worry about it, or check my insurance and make a booking with the repair shop? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mysterious Alert Beep
Hi Ronni Thanks for your guidance with this problem. An update: The alert tone was coming from an external hard drive. Specific cause is not determined, but I feel there are several pointers. I had earlier moved half of my movie files to this new external HD. Spotlight was doing its Sandbox indexing thing, and I was checking and amending tags in iTunes as many files defaulted to film type and I wanted them to appear as TV programs. The drive was therefore getting fairly constant use. Drive is a 1TB Seagate Freeagent GoFlex Desk on a Firewire 800 base, made in Thailand. I purchased this in July as a USB3 unit. I bought a similar drive (USB2) a year ago (made in China) plus two Firewire bases.I already have two WD My Book Studio 1TB Firewire drives. The 'beeping' drive is third in the Firewire series chain. The drive in position 4 is used for manual backups and has not been used during this exercise. (I bypassed this unit from Spotlight indexing a few days ago.) I suspect that Firewire signals are regenerated at each unit in the chain, so that units 3 and 4 are not fully active when the computer is woken from sleep and Time Machine starts its backup sequence on unit 1. Whatever, unit 3 'beeped' just after I woke the Mac after dinner with no new work asked of it (whole system had been asleep for over an hour). It also beeped during my iTunes tag editing a couple of times but seemed to handle bulk option copies to create the movie links in iTunes with no drama. Beeps may also be an indication of a relatively small buffer size in the GoFlex drive. Ominously the drive occasionally gave mechanical clunks during operation (like a hoon driver taking off by dropping the clutch). I went through a similar file copying exercise 2-3 years ago when I transferred movies from smaller USB drives to the new WD Studio Firewire drive. No problems whatsoever. I will complete my iTunes tagging and allow Spotlight to finish (if it ever does) and see how the GoFlex performs after a good rest. But I have a feeling it is not going to be 100 percent reliable over time.I will send a further posting if any significant event happens. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 2:49 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I seldom open the widgets - only four are activated: iStat Pro, Calculator, Weather and Stocks. I can't detect any sound setting associated with them. Sound source was difficult to pinpoint: it was definitely not a smoke alarm, mobile phone or the fridge door - -.There are four Firewire external drives attached. One is definitely a likely culprit. Drives are located on a shelf just above the iMac display. I re-organised my movie collection yesterday and moved 4-500GB to a new drive. The background Spotlight Sandbox thingy has been generating many log entries in Console - an assumed consequence of moving the files I will later change Computer Sleep back to 'Never' and try and stimulate some glass chimes. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:54 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, Yes, Funk is the default alert sound in System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects. Did you have any external drives attached when your heard the 'beep'? I would disconnect any external drives from the Mac to eliminate if one of them causing the 'beep'. Also check any widgets in Dashboard, one of them might give an alert 'beep' sound. If you are hearing three beeps Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 1:40 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sound effects for alerts and whatever should be the installed defaults. Mail new message sound is - New Message Sound. My quick read-around on alert tones directed me to the System Preferences Sound - sound effects. I didn't realise that the highlighted tone was a user set default. I clicked on each one to hear the sound generated and glass seemed nearest to (but not quite?) the alert I heard. Funk is (was?) the tone heard when I try to do an operation that the computer doesn't like. Is this the default alert? My problem noise was definitely not a beep, beep, beep sound. It was a single higher pitched noise of the same duration as the others and occurred independently of any action on my part. BTW I would have had iTunes as another app that was on for at least some of the time. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:00 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: In System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects, do you have 'Glass' selected as an alert sound? Or is it a beep, beep, beep sound? Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 12:31 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Several times this morning I heard an unknown alert beep at irregular intervals. Possibly glass tone. No physical info window with messages appeared. Computer has been running with System Preferences Energy Saver 'Computer Sleep Never' since about 9pm last night. I
Re: Mysterious Alert Beep
Hi Alan, Beeps may also be an indication of a relatively small buffer size in the GoFlex drive. Ominously the drive occasionally gave mechanical clunks during operation (like a hoon driver taking off by dropping the clutch). Don't like the sound like 'dropping the clutch'. Is it like it is constantly 'shutting down and powering up? The drive might emit an error beep before it disconnects, and I have heard that daisy chaining another FireWire drive sometimes makes this drive beep and disconnect. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 12/10/2012, at 9:29 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for your guidance with this problem. An update: The alert tone was coming from an external hard drive. Specific cause is not determined, but I feel there are several pointers. I had earlier moved half of my movie files to this new external HD. Spotlight was doing its Sandbox indexing thing, and I was checking and amending tags in iTunes as many files defaulted to film type and I wanted them to appear as TV programs. The drive was therefore getting fairly constant use. Drive is a 1TB Seagate Freeagent GoFlex Desk on a Firewire 800 base, made in Thailand. I purchased this in July as a USB3 unit. I bought a similar drive (USB2) a year ago (made in China) plus two Firewire bases.I already have two WD My Book Studio 1TB Firewire drives. The 'beeping' drive is third in the Firewire series chain. The drive in position 4 is used for manual backups and has not been used during this exercise. (I bypassed this unit from Spotlight indexing a few days ago.) I suspect that Firewire signals are regenerated at each unit in the chain, so that units 3 and 4 are not fully active when the computer is woken from sleep and Time Machine starts its backup sequence on unit 1. Whatever, unit 3 'beeped' just after I woke the Mac after dinner with no new work asked of it (whole system had been asleep for over an hour). It also beeped during my iTunes tag editing a couple of times but seemed to handle bulk option copies to create the movie links in iTunes with no drama. Beeps may also be an indication of a relatively small buffer size in the GoFlex drive. Ominously the drive occasionally gave mechanical clunks during operation (like a hoon driver taking off by dropping the clutch). I went through a similar file copying exercise 2-3 years ago when I transferred movies from smaller USB drives to the new WD Studio Firewire drive. No problems whatsoever. I will complete my iTunes tagging and allow Spotlight to finish (if it ever does) and see how the GoFlex performs after a good rest. But I have a feeling it is not going to be 100 percent reliable over time.I will send a further posting if any significant event happens. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 2:49 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I seldom open the widgets - only four are activated: iStat Pro, Calculator, Weather and Stocks. I can't detect any sound setting associated with them. Sound source was difficult to pinpoint: it was definitely not a smoke alarm, mobile phone or the fridge door - -.There are four Firewire external drives attached. One is definitely a likely culprit. Drives are located on a shelf just above the iMac display. I re-organised my movie collection yesterday and moved 4-500GB to a new drive. The background Spotlight Sandbox thingy has been generating many log entries in Console - an assumed consequence of moving the files I will later change Computer Sleep back to 'Never' and try and stimulate some glass chimes. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:54 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, Yes, Funk is the default alert sound in System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects. Did you have any external drives attached when your heard the 'beep'? I would disconnect any external drives from the Mac to eliminate if one of them causing the 'beep'. Also check any widgets in Dashboard, one of them might give an alert 'beep' sound. If you are hearing three beeps Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 1:40 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sound effects for alerts and whatever should be the installed defaults. Mail new message sound is - New Message Sound. My quick read-around on alert tones directed me to the System Preferences Sound - sound effects. I didn't realise that the highlighted tone was a user set default. I clicked on each one to hear the sound generated and glass seemed nearest to (but not quite?) the alert I heard. Funk is (was?) the tone heard when I try to do an operation that the computer doesn't like. Is this the default alert? My problem noise was definitely not a beep, beep, beep sound. It was a single higher pitched noise of the same duration as the others and occurred independently of
Mysterious Alert Beep
Several times this morning I heard an unknown alert beep at irregular intervals. Possibly glass tone. No physical info window with messages appeared. Computer has been running with System Preferences Energy Saver 'Computer Sleep Never' since about 9pm last night. I 'Shut Down' the computer around 10.30am in case it was an overheating problem. Didn't think to check the Dashboard ProStat Widget until later. Fan noise remained unaltered throughout, but not fast or loud. Restarted computer after 30 minutes, reset Energy Saver preferences to Default (Computer Sleep after 10 minutes) but then got another beep about 15 minutes later. Been quiet for about an hour since. How do I determine what app may have generated the sound? The only foreground on apps have been Finder, Mail, Safari, EyeTV and Console. The only references to alert sounds that seemed anyway relevant in Help refer to the startup sequence. What was it? Do I ignore it, worry about it, or check my insurance and make a booking with the repair shop? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121012/f10b343a/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mysterious Alert Beep
In System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects, do you have 'Glass' selected as an alert sound? Or is it a beep, beep, beep sound? Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 12:31 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Several times this morning I heard an unknown alert beep at irregular intervals. Possibly glass tone. No physical info window with messages appeared. Computer has been running with System Preferences Energy Saver 'Computer Sleep Never' since about 9pm last night. I 'Shut Down' the computer around 10.30am in case it was an overheating problem. Didn't think to check the Dashboard ProStat Widget until later. Fan noise remained unaltered throughout, but not fast or loud. Restarted computer after 30 minutes, reset Energy Saver preferences to Default (Computer Sleep after 10 minutes) but then got another beep about 15 minutes later. Been quiet for about an hour since. How do I determine what app may have generated the sound? The only foreground on apps have been Finder, Mail, Safari, EyeTV and Console. The only references to alert sounds that seemed anyway relevant in Help refer to the startup sequence. What was it? Do I ignore it, worry about it, or check my insurance and make a booking with the repair shop? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121012/f10b343a/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121012/04e740d9/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Also meant to ask what sound do you have selected for 'New messages sound' in Mail Preferences General? On 12/10/2012, at 1:00 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: In System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects, do you have 'Glass' selected as an alert sound? Or is it a beep, beep, beep sound? Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 12:31 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Several times this morning I heard an unknown alert beep at irregular intervals. Possibly glass tone. No physical info window with messages appeared. Computer has been running with System Preferences Energy Saver 'Computer Sleep Never' since about 9pm last night. I 'Shut Down' the computer around 10.30am in case it was an overheating problem. Didn't think to check the Dashboard ProStat Widget until later. Fan noise remained unaltered throughout, but not fast or loud. Restarted computer after 30 minutes, reset Energy Saver preferences to Default (Computer Sleep after 10 minutes) but then got another beep about 15 minutes later. Been quiet for about an hour since. How do I determine what app may have generated the sound? The only foreground on apps have been Finder, Mail, Safari, EyeTV and Console. The only references to alert sounds that seemed anyway relevant in Help refer to the startup sequence. What was it? Do I ignore it, worry about it, or check my insurance and make a booking with the repair shop? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mysterious Alert Beep
Hi Ronni Sound effects for alerts and whatever should be the installed defaults. Mail new message sound is - New Message Sound. My quick read-around on alert tones directed me to the System Preferences Sound - sound effects. I didn't realise that the highlighted tone was a user set default. I clicked on each one to hear the sound generated and glass seemed nearest to (but not quite?) the alert I heard. Funk is (was?) the tone heard when I try to do an operation that the computer doesn't like. Is this the default alert? My problem noise was definitely not a beep, beep, beep sound. It was a single higher pitched noise of the same duration as the others and occurred independently of any action on my part. BTW I would have had iTunes as another app that was on for at least some of the time. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:00 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: In System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects, do you have 'Glass' selected as an alert sound? Or is it a beep, beep, beep sound? Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 12:31 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Several times this morning I heard an unknown alert beep at irregular intervals. Possibly glass tone. No physical info window with messages appeared. Computer has been running with System Preferences Energy Saver 'Computer Sleep Never' since about 9pm last night. I 'Shut Down' the computer around 10.30am in case it was an overheating problem. Didn't think to check the Dashboard ProStat Widget until later. Fan noise remained unaltered throughout, but not fast or loud. Restarted computer after 30 minutes, reset Energy Saver preferences to Default (Computer Sleep after 10 minutes) but then got another beep about 15 minutes later. Been quiet for about an hour since. How do I determine what app may have generated the sound? The only foreground on apps have been Finder, Mail, Safari, EyeTV and Console. The only references to alert sounds that seemed anyway relevant in Help refer to the startup sequence. What was it? Do I ignore it, worry about it, or check my insurance and make a booking with the repair shop? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121012/f10b343a/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121012/04e740d9/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mysterious Alert Beep
Hi Alan, Yes, Funk is the default alert sound in System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects. Did you have any external drives attached when your heard the 'beep'? I would disconnect any external drives from the Mac to eliminate if one of them causing the 'beep'. Also check any widgets in Dashboard, one of them might give an alert 'beep' sound. If you are hearing three beeps Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 1:40 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sound effects for alerts and whatever should be the installed defaults. Mail new message sound is - New Message Sound. My quick read-around on alert tones directed me to the System Preferences Sound - sound effects. I didn't realise that the highlighted tone was a user set default. I clicked on each one to hear the sound generated and glass seemed nearest to (but not quite?) the alert I heard. Funk is (was?) the tone heard when I try to do an operation that the computer doesn't like. Is this the default alert? My problem noise was definitely not a beep, beep, beep sound. It was a single higher pitched noise of the same duration as the others and occurred independently of any action on my part. BTW I would have had iTunes as another app that was on for at least some of the time. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:00 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: In System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects, do you have 'Glass' selected as an alert sound? Or is it a beep, beep, beep sound? Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 12:31 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Several times this morning I heard an unknown alert beep at irregular intervals. Possibly glass tone. No physical info window with messages appeared. Computer has been running with System Preferences Energy Saver 'Computer Sleep Never' since about 9pm last night. I 'Shut Down' the computer around 10.30am in case it was an overheating problem. Didn't think to check the Dashboard ProStat Widget until later. Fan noise remained unaltered throughout, but not fast or loud. Restarted computer after 30 minutes, reset Energy Saver preferences to Default (Computer Sleep after 10 minutes) but then got another beep about 15 minutes later. Been quiet for about an hour since. How do I determine what app may have generated the sound? The only foreground on apps have been Finder, Mail, Safari, EyeTV and Console. The only references to alert sounds that seemed anyway relevant in Help refer to the startup sequence. What was it? Do I ignore it, worry about it, or check my insurance and make a booking with the repair shop? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mysterious Alert Beep
I'm trying to do too many things at once, and hit send without finishing If you are hearing three beeps it could be a faulty RAM stick. On 12/10/2012, at 1:54 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, Yes, Funk is the default alert sound in System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects. Did you have any external drives attached when your heard the 'beep'? I would disconnect any external drives from the Mac to eliminate if one of them causing the 'beep'. Also check any widgets in Dashboard, one of them might give an alert 'beep' sound. If you are hearing three beeps Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 1:40 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Sound effects for alerts and whatever should be the installed defaults. Mail new message sound is - New Message Sound. My quick read-around on alert tones directed me to the System Preferences Sound - sound effects. I didn't realise that the highlighted tone was a user set default. I clicked on each one to hear the sound generated and glass seemed nearest to (but not quite?) the alert I heard. Funk is (was?) the tone heard when I try to do an operation that the computer doesn't like. Is this the default alert? My problem noise was definitely not a beep, beep, beep sound. It was a single higher pitched noise of the same duration as the others and occurred independently of any action on my part. BTW I would have had iTunes as another app that was on for at least some of the time. Cheers Alan On 12/10/2012, at 1:00 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: In System Preferences Sound - Sound Effects, do you have 'Glass' selected as an alert sound? Or is it a beep, beep, beep sound? Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2012, at 12:31 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Several times this morning I heard an unknown alert beep at irregular intervals. Possibly glass tone. No physical info window with messages appeared. Computer has been running with System Preferences Energy Saver 'Computer Sleep Never' since about 9pm last night. I 'Shut Down' the computer around 10.30am in case it was an overheating problem. Didn't think to check the Dashboard ProStat Widget until later. Fan noise remained unaltered throughout, but not fast or loud. Restarted computer after 30 minutes, reset Energy Saver preferences to Default (Computer Sleep after 10 minutes) but then got another beep about 15 minutes later. Been quiet for about an hour since. How do I determine what app may have generated the sound? The only foreground on apps have been Finder, Mail, Safari, EyeTV and Console. The only references to alert sounds that seemed anyway relevant in Help refer to the startup sequence. What was it? Do I ignore it, worry about it, or check my insurance and make a booking with the repair shop? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
