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>
