[BNM] Server making 'chirruping' noise...?

['Alex' Bridge]

Those'll probably be BIOS beep codes. The pattern of the beeps will be 
indicating a particular problem.

-alx

iestyn lloyd wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> This is odd. Got a new dev box - a dell poweredge sc 430, running
> Windows Server 2003.
> It's not really doing anything exciting - in fact, it's just sitting
> there - powered up - doing nothing.
> Occasionally it'll start making 'chirruping' noises from the speaker.
> It's like a lot of normal 'beeps' but in very quick succession.
> sometimes it will only be a couple of beeps, sometimes a load of them.
> It'll then stop. and start again a few seconds, or minutes later.
>
> There's nothing in the event logs that tie in with the times of this
> sound.. tis very random indeed.. anyone got any ideas what this might
> be? My first thought was CPU temperature, the environment isnt hot,
> but i guess the heatsink might not have been fitted correctly... i'll
> poke around in the BIOS and see if there's anything there...
>
> cheers
>
> iestyn
>
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