[Herts] Irritating Alarm

[David Honour]

On the basis of my initial tests this seems to have solved it,
thankyou!

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:39:41 +0100
David Honour <thegoatee at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> I will try disabling throttling and seeing if that solves it, I hadn't
> even considered it, thankyou.
> 
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:10:35 +0100
> Kevin Sheehan <confused at befuddlement.net> wrote:
> 
> > Does your motherboard have speed throttling for the fans?
> > 
> > As I have had propblems with these a few times. I was thinking could
> > it be that the motherboard is picking the temperature increase up
> > (Not neccessarily overheat), trying to throttle up the fans but one
> > of them is damaged or a low noise one that has a lower max RPM and
> > this is setting the alarm off? I.E. at idle the RPM is above the
> > alarm threshold, but throttled up it cannot reach the alarm
> > threshold.
> > 
> > Anyhow just  a thought.
> >     Kevin
> > 
> > David Honour wrote:
> > > I have an alarm (on the motherboard, or at least voiced by it)
> > > that goes off when my system is under load (and it doesn't take
> > > much, bzflag will trigger it).
> > >
> > > Having looked into lmsensors (which i'm not sure if i can
> > > trust the output of), it shows no overheat or power shortage.
> > >
> > > It also doesn't appear in dmesg, so I think it is likely to be
> > > hardware, but, i cannot diagnose it.
> > >
> > > While the alarm is going off it appears to run as normal, hovever,
> > > it has been doing this on a slightly more than daily basis for
> > > some time now and I am becoming increasingly worried by it (and
> > > it's really loud).
> > >
> > > Sometimes it will stop if you close all running programs (just as
> > > if you were going to shut down). Sometimes you have to shut it
> > > down to shut it up.
> > >
> > > System:
> > > CPU: x2-3800 <- stock cooler
> > > Ram: 2Gb of cheap stuff
> > > Mobo: Abit KN8-SLI
> > > Graphics: 2x6600Gt SLI
> > > Audio: M-Audio Audiophile 2496
> > > HDD: Western Digital (250gb) <- I am worried about this anyway
> > > Optical: one dvdrw and a dvdr <- not nessacarily active when goes
> > > off +loads of case fans
> > >
> > > Any ideas, thanks
> > > David
> > >
> > > p.s. I think I will bring it to the next meeting so if there's
> > > anything in terms of hardware tests that you think might help,
> > > then might be the time.
> > >
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