Its a phony story. It can't keep on beeping with no power and no battery.
In <20070117010109.006EE6E006C@illuminati.stderr.org>, on 01/16/2007
at 07:59 PM, "Julian Thomas" <jt@jt-mj.net> said:
>A friend sent this:
>Using my Thinkpad 600E. It has started beeping. More
>specifically it beeps every sixty two seconds. The "beep" is one high
>pitched beep followed by 2 short lower pitched beeps.
>I am running on ac power, and it knows that and so indicates. The power
>meter indicates the battery is 97% charged, so it doesn't apppear to be a
>low battery warning. (I think I may have heard such when I forgot to
>turn the power on and the battery ran low in the past, I am not sure.)
>Well this morning I turned it off and disconnected the power and it kept
>right on beeping every 62 seconds. It had stopped by the time I got back
>this afternoon. But re-connecteing the power (not turning it on, just
>re-connecting the power!) started it again.
>Then I disconnected the power and removed the battery, and it kept right
>on beeping!!!!
>Any ideas what might be going on and what I might do about it?
>---
>I'll pass on the collective wisdom of the list to him. Thanks.
>
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