[ltp] Random "beep" from x40

[Eben King]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Chris Michalak wrote:

> I very recently purchased a thinkpad x40. I'm running Fedora Core 2 with 
> all the default acpi and cpuspeed settings. My computer occasional 
> "beeps" at what seems to be random times. I've disabled all of the 
> alarms in the bios, but the problem continues. I've done a "watch -d cat 
> /proc/cpuinfo" to see if the beeps occur when the cpu frequency changes. 
> But it doesn't appear to be the case. Has anyone else experienced this 
> problem? It's driving me nuts!
> 
> The beep seems to coincide with some hardrive activity (which istelf 
> does not appear to be triggered by anything in particular that I may be 
> doing on the computer).
> 
> The beep occurs even when the hardware mute of the soundcard is activated.

Maybe when the hard drive spins up?  hdparm might say the current state of 
the hard drive.

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