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MargaretR 27-11-2008 11:31
Unidentified bleep
 
I have a bleep (again)
It has persisted for several weeks and has been heard by visitors -so its not me going off my rocker.
I have been trying to track it down by switching things off at the wall socket in turn.
Last time I had a bleep it was my smoke alarm, so that was the 1st place I tested - wasn't that.

My problem is confused by the fact that the volume and direction it comes from appears to vary,
and for the past 2 days the note sometimes changes from a single bleep, to a more melodic double bleep.
So I may have two bleeps.

I have ruled out the following electrical items-
smoke alarm, TV, 2 PCs and their accessories, livebox, radio headphones, radio telephone, sky box, alarm clock radio,
radio door bell. I have also tested (by unplugging) all appliances.
The only untested item is my fridge/freezer - I don't want to risk spoiling food,
If you ever had a bleeping fridge/freezer please advise.
It is too loud to be coming from close neighbours (and it happens when they are out)

In sheer desparation I have googled 'unidentified bleep' and found this press report
The Northern Echo - The strange case of the solitary bleep

Any suggestions of a likely source will be welcome

Retlaw 27-11-2008 14:09
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 655284)
I have a bleep (again)
It has persisted for several weeks and has been heard by visitors -so its not me going off my rocker.
I have been trying to track it down by switching things off at the wall socket in turn.
Last time I had a bleep it was my smoke alarm, so that was the 1st place I tested - wasn't that.

My problem is confused by the fact that the volume and direction it comes from appears to vary,
and for the past 2 days the note sometimes changes from a single bleep, to a more melodic double bleep.
So I may have two bleeps.

I have ruled out the following electrical items-
smoke alarm, TV, 2 PCs and their accessories, livebox, radio headphones, radio telephone, sky box, alarm clock radio,
radio door bell. I have also tested (by unplugging) all appliances.
The only untested item is my fridge/freezer - I don't want to risk spoiling food,
If you ever had a bleeping fridge/freezer please advise.
It is too loud to be coming from close neighbours (and it happens when they are out)

In sheer desparation I have googled 'unidentified bleep' and found this press report
The Northern Echo - The strange case of the solitary bleep

Any suggestions of a likely source will be welcome
Margaret.
The only thing I can suggest is to locate by triangulation, make a rough sketch of the layout of your flat, when the beep sounds put a cross for where you are, and an arrow towards the sound. After 3 or 4 it should tie it down to a specific area. It won't be the fridge there's nowt in them to bleep.

Retlaw.

Benipete 27-11-2008 14:24
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I keep getting an unidentified bleep and was convinced it came from Messenger.However there was never anyone there.may just be a slight fault with it.
Not an unknown thing with Windows.:confused::confused:

kelsilou 27-11-2008 15:32
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Hi just to let you know my Mum had a fridge freezer that bleeped if the door had been slightly left ajar or the seal wasn't connected properly so they knew it wasn't as cold as it should be it bleeped to alert them so the food didn't spoil so it could possibly be the fridge freezer????

MargaretR 27-11-2008 15:37
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kelsilou (Post 655324)
Hi just to let you know my Mum had a fridge freezer that bleeped if the door had been slightly left ajar or the seal wasn't connected properly so they knew it wasn't as cold as it should be it bleeped to alert them so the food didn't spoil so it could possibly be the fridge freezer????
That is very useful info, thanks - I will be fridge watching

Royboy39 27-11-2008 15:42
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Could be a serious warning that Margaret..............Tighten your nicker lastic.

jambutty 27-11-2008 16:25
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
From time to time when my computer boots up there comes a ‘bleep’ from the tower. Then right out of the blue and maybe once a week or so and under normal usage the tower decides arbitrarily to regale my ears with a short ‘bleep’. It can’t be the speakers because they are turned off until I actually want to hear something.

All other items in my flat are bleepless except for a digital stopwatch. This produces a short bleep every half hour in spite of the easy to follow instructions for controlling the bleep to either on or off.

Your bleep is probably coming from a quantum wormhole and someone from ‘over there’ is trying to communicate with you.

K.S.H 27-11-2008 16:43
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I could hear a bleep once when i was in bed, drove me nuts for about half an hour, turned out it was a neighbours smoke alarm. :-(
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MargaretR 27-11-2008 16:54
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jambutty (Post 655360)
From time to time when my computer boots up there comes a ‘bleep’ from the tower. Then right out of the blue and maybe once a week or so and under normal usage the tower decides arbitrarily to regale my ears with a short ‘bleep’. It can’t be the speakers because they are turned off until I actually want to hear something.

All other items in my flat are bleepless except for a digital stopwatch. This produces a short bleep every half hour in spite of the easy to follow instructions for controlling the bleep to either on or off.

Your bleep is probably coming from a quantum wormhole and someone from ‘over there’ is trying to communicate with you.
It happens when both of my pcs are switched off at the wall socket.

I may well be having a message from 'the other side'
You may recall my Phantom bellringer thread.
I removed one of the bells. People have to knock now.
I now have a phantom door knocker - and it isn't naughty boys playing nick nack - that door is on the landing of a stairwell and it sometimes happens when the outer door to the stairwell is locked.
Feeling a bit 'spooked':surprise:


PS that knocking stopped when the bleep started - wonder what 'they' will try next:eek:

accyman 27-11-2008 21:00
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
mobile phones emit a small beep when the battery is getting low and more frequent as teh battery gets lower in charge

other items that require charging can do this as well like cordless phones ,laptops etc

MargaretR 27-11-2008 21:07
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by accyman (Post 655481)
mobile phones emit a small beep when the battery is getting low and more frequent as teh battery gets lower in charge

other items that require charging can do this as well like cordless phones ,laptops etc
I have had my mobile switched off for weeks cos I rarely go out.
My landline radio phone is on its charger all day and at my bedside at night.
Thanks for responding anyway

emamum 27-11-2008 21:11
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at least he didnt suggest it could be your hearing aid battery lol

MargaretR 27-11-2008 21:15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by emamum (Post 655490)
at least he didnt suggest it could be your hearing aid battery lol
LOL - how did you know?
I dont wear that unless I go out either
Perhaps if I put it in I would hear the bleep better:D

accyman 27-11-2008 21:33
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 655493)
LOL - how did you know?
I dont wear that unless I go out either
Perhaps if I put it in I would hear the bleep better:D
does it sound like this ?

http://www.talkingwav.com/various/beep_06.wav

many other beep sounds here incase you want to start collecting them seen as it appears your stuck with your beep lol

http://www.talkingwav.com/various_wav_sounds.html

MargaretR 27-11-2008 21:36
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Quote:
Originally Posted by accyman (Post 655503)
It is a bit lowered pitched than that.
When it is a double bleep it is more like a car key fob
(which I dont have - and there are no parked cars nearby other than mine)

PS just seen that extra link you have added - I will listen to them later after TV is off

accyman 27-11-2008 21:38
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 655504)
It is a bit lowered pitched than that.
When it is a double bleep it is more like a car key fob
(which I dont have - and there are no parked cars nearby other than mine)
your not sitting dopwn on a calculator or anything that has buttons that could beep are you lol

Eric 28-11-2008 18:57
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If you are having trouble tracking it down, try asking the voices in your head;)

Royboy39 28-11-2008 19:53
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Margaret....are you still getting the bleep or has it gone?
You've had me looking to the sky for aliens.
If you see a flying poncake let us know.

MargaretR 28-11-2008 20:04
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
The double bleep has stopped but the single bleep continues.
I recharged my mobile phone - it wasn't that.
I sit at my pc in the middle of one side of my lounge - I hear it from both left and right.

I am wondering now that it might be the base for my radio phone on the left AND my fridge in the kitchen on my right - but it happens more on the left (phone location)

I think the chap in the flat below me has recently got internet access by using a dongle
(I heard the intro to IPlayer) He said he was considering it a while back.

For you radio techies - could his dongle interfere with my radio phone?

K.S.H 29-11-2008 08:40
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
do you mean a cordless phone? suppose it is possible but would have thought it was too far away to interfere with it, if i put my mobile near our cordless phone it makes it bleep about every 10 mins but they have to be very near to each other to do it
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jaysay 29-11-2008 09:14
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Last night I was laid on my bed about 7pm when I heard what Thought was a siren going of, I hit the mute on the TV, went to the window looked out nobody staring at all this went on for have an hour and was get on my nerves, went to the window again but opened it this time, but the noise wasn't coming from outside, so I started walking round listening, I found the culprit, I'd accidentally switched my phone on and it had started buzzing to tell me it was off the hook:rolleyes:

MargaretR 29-11-2008 09:24
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
I am beginning to think that my cordless landline phone is the bleeper.
I have a corded phone stored in the sideboard (I think), so sometime today I will unplug the cordless phone and see what happens, or doesn't happen:)

jaysay 29-11-2008 10:51
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 655799)
I am beginning to think that my cordless landline phone is the bleeper.
I have a corded phone stored in the sideboard (I think), so sometime today I will unplug the cordless phone and see what happens, or doesn't happen:)
Think you may have sorted it Margaret, when a cordless phone's battery is coming to the end of is useful life it does beep, I know I changed mine a couple of months ago for that reason. I could have bought a new battery, but the phone was around 10 years old and I'd already had one replacement battery so I thought I'd up date

bonny_tuesday 29-11-2008 14:16
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I'm fed up now. I wanted it to be the phantom door knockers and bell ringers. I like a spooky story!
Lynne x

Studio25 30-11-2008 00:32
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It may still turn into a spooky story. It's a bit like "Poltergeist", except instead of the TV being off and unplugged, Margaret's 'phone battery is completely dead, and the beeping is caused by dead northern spirits because the phone line conduit ran through the last resting place of the hordes who starved during the Lancashire Hot Pot blight of 1783.

Perhaps.

cashman 30-11-2008 00:47
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funny we are having a bleeping sporadically fer about 3 days now, couldn't figure out what it was at first, cos it was 2/3 occasional bleeps, paris figured it after about 24 hrs, twas the pigging smoke detector at the top of stairwell.:alright:

jaysay 30-11-2008 09:55
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Studio25 (Post 656079)
It may still turn into a spooky story. It's a bit like "Poltergeist", except instead of the TV being off and unplugged, Margaret's 'phone battery is completely dead, and the beeping is caused by dead northern spirits because the phone line conduit ran through the last resting place of the hordes who starved during the Lancashire Hot Pot blight of 1783.

Perhaps.
Talking about spooky things I couldn't sleep last night and watched Quatermass and the Pit, them poor sods at Hobs End were really spookd out:D

bondi38 30-11-2008 12:33
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Have you got a burglar alarm on your flat if so have you got a back up battery if you have that will bleep when it needs a new one similar to a smoke alarm battery .

mattylad 02-12-2008 14:59
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Our cordless DECT phone beeps all the time, just goes off for no reason.

We have got used to it now, I'm not going to waste any effort on fixing it because at some point its being thrown out of the window in a fit of rage when it cuts us off again. :D

MargaretR 05-12-2008 12:24
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Further developments-
I disconnected the cordless radio phone and replaced it with a 'normal' phone but the bleeps continued.
The double bleep returned, and I traced that to be my spare PC which (I think) was 'asking' to be updated, because I hadn't switched it on for 2 months.
Now I have installed updates on it, that double bleep has stopped.
I still have one unidentified single tone bleep - it may be the fridge freezer - the only item that hasn't been unplugged for test purposes.
I will now try to find the instruction book for it, to see if a bleep is mentioned in it.
Meanwhile the problem has been halved and I can live with that.
Thanks for your suggestions

Royboy39 05-12-2008 12:34
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 657531)
Further developments-
I disconnected the cordless radio phone and replaced it with a 'normal' phone but the bleeps continued.
The double bleep returned, and I traced that to be my spare PC which (I think) was 'asking' to be updated, because I hadn't switched it on for 2 months.
Now I have installed updates on it, that double bleep has stopped.
I still have one unidentified single tone bleep - it may be the fridge freezer - the only item that hasn't been unplugged for test purposes.
I will now try to find the instruction book for it, to see if a bleep is mentioned in it.
Meanwhile the problem has been halved and I can live with that.
Thanks for your suggestions
You don't use heated rollers by any chance? :)

MargaretR 05-12-2008 12:37
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Royboy39 (Post 657535)
You don't use heated rollers by any chance? :)
NO - and if that means you imagine me as Nora Batty - I identify more with Edie(Thora Hird) - my mum was her lookaliky - and one of my exes was a motor mechanic

K.S.H 05-12-2008 15:41
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 657531)
The double bleep returned, and I traced that to be my spare PC which (I think) was 'asking' to be updated, because I hadn't switched it on for 2 months.
It wouldn't beep if it was turned off

ossykid 05-12-2008 15:42
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Unplug the fridge/freezer Margaret, it will stay cold/frozen for at least 10 hours depending on how often you open it but long enough to check the beep.

MargaretR 05-12-2008 15:53
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by K.S.H (Post 657565)
It wouldn't beep if it was turned off
I thought that too:confused: but a switch on and update has cured it - it was connected to a Livebox by an ethernet cable - perhaps that was doing the bleeping - they are adjacent to each other.

Still considering whether to mess withh freezer - thanks anyway

K.S.H 05-12-2008 16:24
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by K.S.H (Post 657565)
It wouldn't beep if it was turned off
Or will it :confused:
Might do when the CMOS battery is ready for changing - not sure if it does it when not turned on though, you get the bleep codes at boot up which tell you certain things and low CMOS battery is one of them

andrewb 06-12-2008 11:14
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I didn't think cmos bleeped when not turned on. Would be a bit of a waste of it's battery? Not like its a fire alarm

Have you identified the bleep yet? This has gone on for a while, you must be going batty. ;)

MargaretR 06-12-2008 11:34
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Quote:
Originally Posted by andrewb (Post 657756)
I didn't think cmos bleeped when not turned on. Would be a bit of a waste of it's battery? Not like its a fire alarm

Have you identified the bleep yet? This has gone on for a while, you must be going batty. ;)
Another one mistaking me for Norah:rolleyes: must change avatar
The double bleep was the worst one - now gone.
This single bleep is not as loud and intrusive - I can cope:D

Retlaw 06-12-2008 14:44
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 657757)
Another one mistaking me for Norah:rolleyes: must change avatar
The double bleep was the worst one - now gone.
This single bleep is not as loud and intrusive - I can cope:D
Aw Margaret don't change your avatar, we know your not a Nora Batty look a like, its just a bit of fun. I've been told by some I look like Freddy Kruger from Nightmare on Elm St, others have called me Greengrass. Does'nt bother me.

Retlaw.

Neil 06-12-2008 17:02
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Quote:
Originally Posted by andrewb (Post 657756)
I didn't think cmos bleeped when not turned on. Would be a bit of a waste of it's battery?
I have never come across one that did yet. I did wonder if it was on standby and not shut down. The other explaination is that since ATX PSU's came along they do have a constant 5v supply to the motherboard. It is used for switching the PC on as well as wake on lan and other wake up PC functions like serial and mouse, keyboard etc. So maybe it was bleeping for something - maybe just to remind you it was on standby.

Retlaw 28-12-2008 11:19
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MargaretR
Another one mistaking me for Norah:rolleyes: must change avatar

When Maragret suggested changing her avatar, it set me to thinking, every one should have their true likeness on display.

So at great expense, I've had my photo taken, and the new avatar is me.

Retlaw.

Studio25 28-12-2008 12:52
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 663540)
When Maragret suggested changing her avatar, it set me to thinking, every one should have their true likeness on display.
I've been thinking for a while that we should have "avatar day" at the shop- where any accywebbers can come in and get their photo taken and have it sent by email in the right format along with instructions for changing their avatar.

I wasn't thinking it necessarily needs to be true likeness though- any object which best "describes" the member will do.

jaysay 29-12-2008 09:27
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 663540)
MargaretR
Another one mistaking me for Norah:rolleyes: must change avatar

When Maragret suggested changing her avatar, it set me to thinking, every one should have their true likeness on display.

So at great expense, I've had my photo taken, and the new avatar is me.

Retlaw.
Well the hat matches, but not sure about the fingernails Retlaw:D

SPUGGIE J 29-12-2008 11:32
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Studio25 (Post 663562)
I've been thinking for a while that we should have "avatar day" at the shop- where any accywebbers can come in and get their photo taken and have it sent by email in the right format along with instructions for changing their avatar.

I wasn't thinking it necessarily needs to be true likeness though- any object which best "describes" the member will do.
Sounds like a good idea but will some of us not scare off potential new members with our mugs in the avatar box????

Studio25 29-12-2008 14:46
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J (Post 663877)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Studio25 (Post 663562)
I've been thinking for a while that we should have "avatar day" at the shop...
Sounds like a good idea but will some of us not scare off potential new members with our mugs in the avatar box????
Not if the two accyweb babes who were in the shop a couple of hours ago are anything to go by. :dancedog:

Doesn't need to be faces: If you're a musician, bring in your instrument (ooer). If you're a petrolhead, we'll get your car in the frame. etc

K.S.H 29-12-2008 14:55
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
What if your an old fart, are the pics scratch and sniff :D :D

Studio25 29-12-2008 15:06
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It could be. :D

Just don't go putting tippex on the screen if you don't like your new avatar. I'll also include instructions for changing it to something else...

K.S.H 29-12-2008 15:35
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Tippex :confused:
Is that modern technology? tried my rubber a few times but it won't erase it, will have to try that stuff :D

SPUGGIE J 29-12-2008 15:40
Re: Unidentified bleep
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by K.S.H (Post 663957)
Tippex :confused:
Is that modern technology? tried my rubber a few times but it won't erase it, will have to try that stuff :D
Now out of a bottle like nail varnish or that strip thingy they have?????


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