OK, reran the test last night, it occured as mentioned. The beep is from the PC speaker and appears to start when x is probed/started, eg, about 3-5 seconds before the x cursor appears (there's a screen flash, goes back to the status bar, then x starts). I didn't time it last night, so I can't tell you how many seconds.
The beep stops as soon as the system starts to shutdown, eg, select shutdown/restart the screen goes black and then it stops.
The beep does NOT occur when using the 'safe' startup (I forget the wording). I did see the same "PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f000000 is not E820-reserved" error when using that method.
I'll try and run through it again tonight and send the dmesg log.
OK, reran the test last night, it occured as mentioned. The beep is from the PC speaker and appears to start when x is probed/started, eg, about 3-5 seconds before the x cursor appears (there's a screen flash, goes back to the status bar, then x starts). I didn't time it last night, so I can't tell you how many seconds.
The beep stops as soon as the system starts to shutdown, eg, select shutdown/restart the screen goes black and then it stops.
The beep does NOT occur when using the 'safe' startup (I forget the wording). I did see the same "PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f000000 is not E820-reserved" error when using that method.
I'll try and run through it again tonight and send the dmesg log.