From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO localhost) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPA id 2333917 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:30:08 -0500 To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:29:20 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] A new/odd wrinkle: Phone rings; T60 sound goes wacko! Message-ID: On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:37:43 -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >On 02/24/09 09:05 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote : >> Here's a new one for the books! >> >> I was using the T60, writing a message, when my cordless telephone >> [Panasonic - 2.4GHz] started ringing. Not unusual, but then the sound >> on the TPad started a constant, high-pitched alarm-like tone. Only by >> using the ThinkVantage [blue rectangle] button to mute the sound would >> it stop. >> >> I should also mention that, contrary to what some others have >> experienced, the 'ThinkPad On-Screen Display' tool works for me to >> raise/lower/mute the sound. This is why I instinctly pushed the 'mute' >> button. >> >> Was it a coincidence? Or was there really a cause-effect action here? >> >> Anyone else ever seen such a thing? >> >> >I might expect the cordless phone to disrupt your Wi-Fi, but I've never >heard of a feedback condition or an alarm sounding from the unit. It was just a single, constant tone... I've had this kind of noise before. I think it was caused by two different programs trying to create sound at the same time. >Does your model have Bluetooth in it (there would be an icon next to the >Wi-Fi indicator)? Naturally, the BT won't do you any good under OS/2 >(yet - you never know when we may get support for BT), but the hardware >could be awake... T60 does have BT. I've never tried to use it. W/O looking, I have no clue if it is ON/OFF. Since eCS has no support, I've never bothered to look at it. Carl