Remember that beeping?
Apr. 26th, 2022 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrA while back I posted about how I woke up to my computer beeping at me. Couldn't find a reason, so I shut it down. Restarted and the beeping was back.
So I wound up setting up a new-to-me computer and moving stuff to that.
Yesterday the beeping started again. Which was really annoying because all that the old & new systems had in common were the hard drives. Shut it down and switched to the Linux box that I still need to get some things set up on (getting it to recognize the NAS servers, mostly).
After an hour or two, I started it up again. I got a couple beeps then they stopped. When it finished booting the desktop only had only the wastebasket icon on it. And a program was complaining about not being able to find something on drive G: Which was the external eSATA drive.
At which point I turned off the external drive and restarted it. Windows recognized it and the icons were back.
Later when the beeping started again I carefully moved the external drive close to my ear. And *it* was the source of the beeps.
Arrrgghh.
I'll dig into things more later, but at least now I know where the problem is. Might be heat problems (though the drive case isn't that warm) might be the drive failing, dunno. But at least I know where to look
So I wound up setting up a new-to-me computer and moving stuff to that.
Yesterday the beeping started again. Which was really annoying because all that the old & new systems had in common were the hard drives. Shut it down and switched to the Linux box that I still need to get some things set up on (getting it to recognize the NAS servers, mostly).
After an hour or two, I started it up again. I got a couple beeps then they stopped. When it finished booting the desktop only had only the wastebasket icon on it. And a program was complaining about not being able to find something on drive G: Which was the external eSATA drive.
At which point I turned off the external drive and restarted it. Windows recognized it and the icons were back.
Later when the beeping started again I carefully moved the external drive close to my ear. And *it* was the source of the beeps.
Arrrgghh.
I'll dig into things more later, but at least now I know where the problem is. Might be heat problems (though the drive case isn't that warm) might be the drive failing, dunno. But at least I know where to look
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Date: 2022-04-27 02:56 pm (UTC)I learned that lesson with smoke detectors. Beeps are hard to localize. Be patient and wait at each potential culprit to make sure that is what is beeping.
Of course, smoke detectors are usually mounted high, so this might involve a lot of climbing up, waiting to learn that is not the one beeping, climbing down and moving the stepstool to the next candidate. :-)
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