Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:39:17 +0100 (CET) | From | Martin Drab <> | Subject | Re: PC speaker beeping on high CPU loads on an nForce2 |
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On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Martin Drab wrote: > > > on an nForce2 system (GigaByte 7NNXP) when the CPU is under heavy load (like > > during kernel compilation for instance, or any compilation of any bigger > > project, for that matter), I hear some beeps comming out of the PC speaker. > > It's like few short beeps per second for a while, then silence for few > > seconds, then a beep here and there, and again, and so on. It is quite > > strange. It happens ever since I remember (I mean in kernel versions of > > course, I have the board for about 1.5 years). I've just been kind of > > ignoring it until now. Does anybody else happen to see the same symptoms? > > What could be the cause of this. Is it something about timing? But how come > > the PC speaker gets kiced in, while it's not being used at all (well, at > > least not intentionally) for anything. Perhaps something is writing some > > ports it is not supposed to? > > Nope. Your system is overheating, and on-board temperature sensors are > complaining. Probably you should find whether lm-sensors have drivers for > chips your motherboard has, and look at sensors output in that case... > > Maybe ACPI could report thermal zone as well, try looking at > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/* tree.
Ah, that didn't occur to me. You are right. I'm about to install a new water cooling, so I hope that would help.
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