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Old 08 Mar 2008, 23:17   #1 (permalink)
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Okay, my school computer (IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60) bluescreened and went to reboot; nothing too scary.

However, it started giving off some kind of echoing, repetitive warning beeps. It appears to be booting up normally, but I was scared enough by the noises to turn it off immediately.

Any ideas what it could be?
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Old 08 Mar 2008, 23:28   #2 (permalink)
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D: That doesn't sound to healthy..
Maybe it's overheating..
When's the last time you cleaned it out ?
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Old 08 Mar 2008, 23:36   #3 (permalink)
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Are they loud beeps? That almost sounds like what happened to me when I was building my desktop a couple years ago... got the hard drive in, tested it... and got a sort of quiet beeping and clicking from the HDD.

Had to sent to stupid thing back and buy another one.
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Old 09 Mar 2008, 00:51   #4 (permalink)
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Got your user manual? It'll tell you what each beepcode means.
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Okay, my school computer (IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60) bluescreened and went to reboot; nothing too scary.

However, it started giving off some kind of echoing, repetitive warning beeps. It appears to be booting up normally, but I was scared enough by the noises to turn it off immediately.

Any ideas what it could be?
I'm deadly serious when I ask this; you weren't leaning on a bunch of keys or anything like that, were you?

Because the only think I can think of that would cause something like that is a buffer overload...
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Old 09 Mar 2008, 03:41   #6 (permalink)
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Timjim: How am I supposed to go about cleaning a laptop, without opening the case and voiding my warrenty? :

All-Father: It sounded like the digital equivilant of a wounded animal scream; not loud, but clearly not good.

GeekyGator: School computer, no documentation .

LGT: If it was actually that simple, I wouldn't have posted for the shame of it :P.
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Old 09 Mar 2008, 03:48   #7 (permalink)
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Hmm... Go to Lenovo's website, and see if they offer on-line documentation. I know all the docs for all dell computers are online for free.
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Old 09 Mar 2008, 18:54   #8 (permalink)
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LGT: If it was actually that simple, I wouldn't have posted for the shame of it :P.
Well hey, some people just don't know about these things. I doubt anybody would be complaining if it were that simple. :P

I barely know enough to plug in my hardware, never mind fix it. I was just tossing around ideas.
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Old 10 Mar 2008, 00:48   #9 (permalink)
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Hmm... Go to Lenovo's website, and see if they offer on-line documentation. I know all the docs for all dell computers are online for free.
Couldn't get anywhere with their site, unfortunately.

LGT: I know the buffer overload beep well enough from pounding my hands on the keyboard in frustration . Thanks for the idea though.
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Old 10 Mar 2008, 01:12   #10 (permalink)
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What's your computer's make, model, and OS? I assume you went to the manuals section and it didn't give you anything?
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