On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In > <aanlktikzd8iggwnbqsctcv83-ckrjvgyc_+xewy0s...@mail.gmail.com<aanlktikzd8iggwnbqsctcv83-ckrjvgyc_%2bxewy0s...@mail.gmail.com>>, > shawn > wilson wrote: > >i was messing around with forwarding ports with connectbot (android app) > and > >all of a sudden my computer started making this loud beep - solid beep. > it's > >still going on now and it's quite distracting. i don't see a pc speaker > >module loaded and this is the the only log entry that was around when it > >started: > > Sounds to be like a hardware or case alarm. There's probably a reset > button > on the case, but you might have to hard reset to clear it up. Usually, the > pcspkr module is not very loud. > > heh, i rebooted. i couldn't get any work done with that noise. so.... for next time, is there any software to reset hardware alarms? i know there's ipmi stuff, but i don't have an ipmi card for this computer. when i googled, i found a man page for 'hwreset' but i didn't find anything with 'apt-cache search' (on either the kubuntu install or a debian box).
