Mackydees

Q: Single beep every five minutes

Hi, I've checked through console to locate the origin of this and it happens regularly every five minutes and there is a message created on the log as the same time saying 'Warning: agent error operating connection to controller "local host" (error = Unable to connect: BEEPError 600 (could not bind socket))'. Can anyone help me fix whatever is wrong because that beep is slowly driving me insane?!

iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 5, 2014 9:55 AM

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Q: Single beep every five minutes

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  • by Baby Boomer (USofA),

    Baby Boomer (USofA) Baby Boomer (USofA) Mar 5, 2014 10:17 AM in response to Mackydees
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    Mar 5, 2014 10:17 AM in response to Mackydees

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1547 

    1 beep = no RAM installed

    2 beeps = incompatible RAM types

    3 beeps = no good banks

    4 beeps = no good boot images in the boot ROM (and/or bad sys config block)

    5 beeps = processor is not usable

     

    Did you recently install RAM?  It may not be seating properly.  Run the AHT.  It's on the DVD that originally came w/your iMac.
      Report back the results.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • by Frank Caggiano,

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Mar 5, 2014 11:46 AM in response to Mackydees
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    Mar 5, 2014 11:46 AM in response to Mackydees

    What is the complete message from the log? The beginning part that has the progrma name?

     

    Is it somehting with Xgrind in it?

     

    BTW what version of the OS are you running?

  • by Baby Boomer (USofA),

    Baby Boomer (USofA) Baby Boomer (USofA) Mar 5, 2014 11:48 AM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Mar 5, 2014 11:48 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

    Frank Caggiano wrote:

     

    What is the complete message from the log? The beginning part that has the progrma name?

     

    Is it somehting with Xgrind in it?

     

    BTW what version of the OS are you running?

    Per the OP system profile:  Mac OS X (10.6.8)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • by Mackydees,

    Mackydees Mackydees Mar 5, 2014 12:05 PM in response to Baby Boomer (USofA)
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    Mar 5, 2014 12:05 PM in response to Baby Boomer (USofA)

    Hi, I haven't touched it since I bought it and I bought it from a chap who built it for me. It has Boot Camp on it and the drive is partioned so I can use Windows XP. Is this likely to be the cause at all?

  • by Mackydees,

    Mackydees Mackydees Mar 5, 2014 12:06 PM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Mar 5, 2014 12:06 PM in response to Frank Caggiano

    Hi, the Sender [pid] is xgridagent [42] if that help and as baby boomer said I'm running 10.6.8.

  • by Frank Caggiano,

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Mar 5, 2014 12:24 PM in response to Mackydees
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    Mar 5, 2014 12:24 PM in response to Mackydees

    Are you actually running Xgrid?

     

    If not I believe if you go to System Preferences->Sharing there is a checkbox for Xgrid, turn it off. (its been a long while since I ran !0.6 so I might be misremembering this)

     

    Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano - fix typo

     

    BTW are you running Snow Leopard Server?

  • by rkaufmann87,

    rkaufmann87 rkaufmann87 Mar 5, 2014 12:48 PM in response to Mackydees
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    Mar 5, 2014 12:48 PM in response to Mackydees

    Mackydees wrote:

     

    Hi, I haven't touched it since I bought it and I bought it from a chap who built it for me. It has Boot Camp on it and the drive is partioned so I can use Windows XP. Is this likely to be the cause at all?

    Is this an actual iMac or a Hackintosh?

  • by Mackydees,

    Mackydees Mackydees Mar 5, 2014 3:36 PM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Mar 5, 2014 3:36 PM in response to Frank Caggiano

    I am not a techie, or even an amateur one unfortunately and I don't know what Xgrid is so I'd imagine I'm not. I've turned it off using the instructions you've given and I'm waiting for five minutes to see if it went. Fingers crossed! The log on the console stopped after saying "Admin.xgridAgentControllerPassword: called without first being authenticated." This is from Sender[PID] System Preferences[5237] but the beep is still there.

     

    What is Snow Leopard server?

  • by Mackydees,

    Mackydees Mackydees Mar 5, 2014 3:37 PM in response to Baby Boomer (USofA)
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    Mar 5, 2014 3:37 PM in response to Baby Boomer (USofA)

    Baby Boomer, it's not on Start Up but rather all the time it's on so is the One Beep = No Ram Installed valid?

  • by Mackydees,

    Mackydees Mackydees Mar 5, 2014 3:42 PM in response to rkaufmann87
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    Mar 5, 2014 3:42 PM in response to rkaufmann87

    No, it's not a Hackintosh, which I think is the reverse of what I've got in that it's a PC/ Laptop that runs Mac OS X on a partitioned drive (?) correct me if I'm wrong please. What I've got is an iMac 27" 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 but it's been partitioned so I can change the start up disk and flip into Windows.

  • by Mackydees,

    Mackydees Mackydees Mar 5, 2014 3:46 PM in response to Baby Boomer (USofA)
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    Mar 5, 2014 3:46 PM in response to Baby Boomer (USofA)

    Also Baby Boomer, I haven't got any disks with this. Can I download it, burn it off and use it at all?

  • by Frank Caggiano,

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Mar 5, 2014 5:30 PM in response to Mackydees
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    Mar 5, 2014 5:30 PM in response to Mackydees

    So the messages in the log file stopped but you're still hearing a beep every 5 mins?

     

    Have you tried rebooting the system since you turned off the Xgrid preference? If not I would give that a shot.

     

    Don;t worry about what Xgrid is then if you're not running it. Basically It was software from Apple that allowed you to setup multiple machines in a grid to share computational tasks.

  • by Mackydees,

    Mackydees Mackydees Mar 7, 2014 9:43 AM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Mar 7, 2014 9:43 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

    Hi, right I restarted it and it still happens. I'm absolutely lost and I really appreciate your guys help.

  • by Frank Caggiano,

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Mar 7, 2014 10:16 AM in response to Mackydees
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    Mar 7, 2014 10:16 AM in response to Mackydees

    Ok so the messages in the logs stopped. Is there anything else being printed at about the same interval as the beeps? Have you looked in all the console logs?

     

    Do you get the beeps if you log in as a different user?  You have Xgrid turned off (it still is off right, check the System Preferences to be sure) .

     

    You need to see if you have something running doing this but first you need to see if it still happens when logged in as a different user.