I just installed Rockstor on an old laptop with an old removable drive plugged into it for now, but my laptop keeps having semi-frequent ‘beeping fits’ where it starts beeping ~5 times in a row. This hasn’t happened on other Linux distros, and the screen sometimes refuses to turn on (I had a beeping fit recently where it was perfectly fine after, so I have no idea if it’s just misconfigured power saving settings or something). How do I stop the beeping? What logs could help me troubleshoot this (dmesg | grep -i sleep doesn’t pull up anything suspicious)?
Hi @dabster291 ,
I’m afraid the beeping pattern may be specific to your model and thus you may not get feedback easily. I would recommend you to check your machine’s manual if it is still available somewhere. This should at least point you towards a specific hardware component (CPU issue, or CMOS battery issue, etc…). I would hope that beeping patterns are somewhat consistent across products or a given vendor, though, so searching that by vendor rather than specific laptop model may be an alternative if you can’t find the manual for yours.
Sorry for not being of much more help than that for now, but hopefully it’ll still help you.
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Update: It seems to be my system’s internal hard drive getting shut down repeatedly while it’s in use. It has barely beeped in a while after I changed the spin-down setting on it to never (the first time I tried to disable the internal hard drive’s spin-down it had disconnected itself [again, this has been a recurring issue with it]). I might reply with the model soon, but I know it’s an old Dell Inspiron 3000 series.
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