Re: [Thinkpad] 600e Beeping

Give it up. It was his cordless phone!
----- Original Message -----
From: "ted frater" <ted.frater@virgin.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] 600e Beeping

> ted frater wrote:
>
> > Julian Thomas wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Theres still the cmos batery connected. youll needto unplug that to
> > remove ALL powerfrom the 600e.
> > Be careful not to damage the plug on the motherboard. There fragile!!
> > If it still beeps after doing that then yove perpetual motion
> > somewhere !!.
> > Report back when youve done this.
> >
>
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