prisoner1572 Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 Thwice, when I was using linux, I heard sets of three beeps. After a few minutes, the computer just turned off as if I had hit the power button. What is wrong? i get these same beeps in WinXP but it does not shutoff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 sounds like you got a hardware problem! Could just be a setting in the bios that needs changed but.....has the pc always done this or is this a new problem? Sounds like a watchdog warning and shutdown to me, just from what you have described. I had that on my old pc with beta/crap kernel watchdog support on an intel i810 chipset. If you have the kernel-source installed, in a terminal do grep -ir "watchdog" /usr/src/linux/Documentation/* for info, or google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prisoner1572 Posted May 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 the beeps have been occuring for a few months. I bought the computer last fall. The shutdown thing is even newer than the beeps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 Open it up and clean your fan/heat sink assembly on the cpu. It's no doubt covered with dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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