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When I got out of hospital a year ago I discovered that my notebook PC was giving problems. Within days it failed completely. So I ordered a new one on Amazon. (A Jumper Ezpad Pro8. No, I've never heard of that make either.)
Now, for the first few months after getting home, I was so tired I was going to bed early most nights. So it's possible that I'd not been downstairs at midnight before seeing in the new year. And as the chimes of Big Ben started on the TV my computer started beeping. Slowly at first, but speeding up and stopping after two minutes. I did wonder if it was some sort of happy new year message.
Feeling a lot better these days, there were other occasions when I was still downstairs at midnight, and there was more beeping, on one one occasion drowning out the music I was listening to. What's more, I'd shut the computer down.
I asked on Cix if anyone could suggest what was going on. One suggestion was that I had a nearby smoke detector and that was giving a low-battery alarm. Well, there is an old smoke detector in a drawer in the kitchen, but it's been sitting there unused since I moved in in 1995, and the sound was louder in living room and the door to the kitchen was closed.
Finally last night, I took the computer up to my bedroom before going to bed. The computer did not beep. I hurried downstairs and could still here the beeping in the living room. It is difficult to get the origin of high-pitched sounds, something to do with the way our ears work. But then I noticed the weather station base unit on the mantelpiece. It has alarms built into it and it appeared there was an alarm set for midnight which was switched on. Possibly when resetting the recorded temperatures I'd switched it on. I've switched it off. Let's see what happens next time up at midnight.
Now, for the first few months after getting home, I was so tired I was going to bed early most nights. So it's possible that I'd not been downstairs at midnight before seeing in the new year. And as the chimes of Big Ben started on the TV my computer started beeping. Slowly at first, but speeding up and stopping after two minutes. I did wonder if it was some sort of happy new year message.
Feeling a lot better these days, there were other occasions when I was still downstairs at midnight, and there was more beeping, on one one occasion drowning out the music I was listening to. What's more, I'd shut the computer down.
I asked on Cix if anyone could suggest what was going on. One suggestion was that I had a nearby smoke detector and that was giving a low-battery alarm. Well, there is an old smoke detector in a drawer in the kitchen, but it's been sitting there unused since I moved in in 1995, and the sound was louder in living room and the door to the kitchen was closed.
Finally last night, I took the computer up to my bedroom before going to bed. The computer did not beep. I hurried downstairs and could still here the beeping in the living room. It is difficult to get the origin of high-pitched sounds, something to do with the way our ears work. But then I noticed the weather station base unit on the mantelpiece. It has alarms built into it and it appeared there was an alarm set for midnight which was switched on. Possibly when resetting the recorded temperatures I'd switched it on. I've switched it off. Let's see what happens next time up at midnight.
