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Mystery PC Beeping Solved
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | Dear Lazyweb |
Dear Lazyweb,
The mystery PC beep has been solved. It was the NetGear WiFi card after all. I didn’t see any settings in the program for sounds, but my wife discovered that if you right-clicked on the menu bar icon there was a check mark next to “Enable ‘Internet Connected’ Notification.” Once she unchecked it the problem went away.
3 Comments to Mystery PC Beeping Solved
I had a similar problem with a USB WiFi adapter, but I assumed the connection problems/sounds was due to the fact that it was USB… and it sucked.
Alcibiades McZombieMay 8, 2008
Note that I never bothered to solve the problem because I didn’t use the computer enough to warrant a correction.
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May 8, 2008