As I started up my Thinkpad T42 yesterday, it beeped loudly and continuously. I thought that it was an alarm, so I checked the BIOS and all alarms were turned off. Finally, Google found me a page that mentioned that leaving the internal microphone turned on for playback can cause this problem. Muting the microphone did fix my problem, so now there is one more page that documents this fix.

After seeing Tom, Dick (yeah, that one) and Harry (no, the other Harry, the non-geek) publish photos on Flickr, I decided to stop maintaining my own (admittedly empty) photo gallery. So here goes: Google Images, here I come.