The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Lous beeping from my MacBook

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by DITTON, Aug 28, 2007.

  1. DITTON

    DITTON Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    12
    Messages:
    62
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Fisrt off I'm out in my backyard on WiFi, my battery is charged i'm just watching some You Tube stuff and all of a sudden this loud ascending beeping starts coming from the MacBook. What on Earth is this? it's really annoying and I have to take this thing to school next week and the last thing I need is loud beeping in the middle of a lecture. Even when I pressed mute it still beeped. How do I turn off system sounds? This was definitely coming from the pc speaker not the notebook speakers. Thanks guys!

    BTW I know there are multiple spelling errors, I typed this in a hurry, sorry.
     
    DITTON, Aug 28, 2007
    #1
  2. knp

    knp Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    26
    Messages:
    528
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    What??? I thought you said the sound was coming from the MacBook..Then you said it wasn't the notebook, but the PC?
     
    knp, Aug 28, 2007
    #2
  3. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    3,661
    Messages:
    9,249
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    Did a cellphone ring nearby? Sometimes when a cellphone is about to ring a few beeps are heard from speakers. This happens very often and is absolutely normal.

    Anyways, I think that's what most likely happened. I don't understand how the sound still came when you muted it, unless it was the cellphone thing, which happens in the speakers and not the MacBook.
     
    Sam, Aug 28, 2007
    #3
  4. fraggable

    fraggable Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    69
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15

    He meant a speaker on the motherboard, not the laptop speakers. Laptops sometimes have a piezo buzzer type thing that can beep error codes or something.

    I have no clue what it was but my first stop would be the macbook support site at apple.com.
     
    fraggable, Aug 28, 2007
    #4
  5. DITTON

    DITTON Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    12
    Messages:
    62
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Thanks guys, ya I'm gonna maybe just call Apple, I don't think it was cell phone interference, I've heard that before on my Desktop speakers and it wasn't half as apparent as the sound coming from the MacBook. I'll let you guys know what I find out from Apple, if I find out anything. Thanks again!
     
    DITTON, Aug 28, 2007
    #5
  6. knp

    knp Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    26
    Messages:
    528
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Ahhh..I didn't know PC = MOBO. :rolleyes:

    Well, if it came from your MOBO, you should definitely get that checked out.
     
    knp, Aug 28, 2007
    #6
  7. Xander

    Xander Paranoid Android

    Reputations:
    1,321
    Messages:
    1,455
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Xander, Aug 28, 2007
    #7