[DC] Beeping sound
Knight of the Black Rose
My Dreamcast makes a loud long beep when I press power button to boot up a
game.
Is this normal? I don't recall it always doing this.
Can't find my manual for some reason...
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>game.
>Is this normal? I don't recall it always doing this.
>Can't find my manual for some
Do you have a VMU plugged in? I know my VMU makes a beeping sound
sometimes.. Hope this helps..
Jay
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Abrahm
On 5 Nov 99 09:42:35 -0500, aefig...@miavx1.muohio.edu (Knight of the Black
Rose) wrote:
// My Dreamcast makes a loud long beep when I press power button to boot up a
// game.
// Is this normal? I don't recall it always doing this.
// Can't find my manual for some reason...
That beeping noise you hear when you're booting a game is normal. As far as I
know, all CD-players and CD-ROM drives make this beeping noise whenver a disc is
first loaded/being read/booted (I know my Sony CD player and the Sony
PlayStation beep like that, too). However, it isn't audible on some drives
(I've never heard it on DVD or PC CD-ROM drives).
As for WHY this happens... I'll let someone more knowledgeable on this stuff
answer that.
Later...
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Chet
power. It will still save games and such becuase the DC itself gives it
power, but you cannot use it outside the controller till you get a new
battery.
Abel
Knight of the Black Rose <aefig...@miavx1.muohio.edu> wrote in message
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> My Dreamcast makes a loud long beep when I press power button to boot up a
> game.
> Is this normal? I don't recall it always doing this.
> Can't find my manual for some reason...
Raymond McKeithen II
Knight of the Black Rose <aefig...@miavx1.muohio.edu> wrote in message
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> My Dreamcast makes a loud long beep when I press power button to boot up a
> game.
> Is this normal? I don't recall it always doing this.
> Can't find my manual for some reason...
My guess is you have a VMU with dead or near-dead batteries plugged into a
controller, and it's what's beeping. This is one of those beeps that's hard
to tell exactly where it's coming from.
I don't think the DC itself is capable of beeping.
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tortoise
<chetw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> It is probably the VMU, mine does this to tell me it is out of
> battery
> power. It will still save games and such becuase the DC itself
> gives it
> power, but you cannot use it outside the controller till you get a
> new
> battery.
yeah, the damn batteries last a month!! that's ridiculous! and so kind
of sega to casually never mention that in regards to the VMU.
the watch battery in my neo pocket is supposed to last years according
to SNK.
Matt
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/ copy protection (I assume it's in there even though nobody can copy
games yet).
It beeps whenever a US Dreamcast game is in during powerup.
It does not beep when there is no CD or GD in there during powerup.
It does not beep when a data CD-ROM (I tried a saturn game) is in at
powerup.
To be sure it was nothing else beeping, I disconnected all the wires
from the DC except the power cord...(no vga-box, no controllers and no
vmus.)
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tortoise <mgreerN...@artic.edu.invalid> wrote in message
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> In article <7vuv4a$db0$1...@news.gte.com>, "Chet"
> <chetw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > It is probably the VMU, mine does this to tell me it is out of
> > battery
> > power. It will still save games and such becuase the DC itself
> > gives it
> > power, but you cannot use it outside the controller till you get a
> > new
> > battery.
>
> yeah, the damn batteries last a month!! that's ridiculous! and so kind
> of sega to casually never mention that in regards to the VMU.
>
> the watch battery in my neo pocket is supposed to last years according
> to SNK.
>
> Matt
>
Um if you knew how to read, one of the precautions in the VMU instructions
states to NOT leave it plugged in the controller when not in use. I have a
import Godzilla VMU that is still running fine.
Jeff Williams
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>
> of sega to casually never mention that in regards to the VMU.
Umm, the published specs say 100 total hours.. they've mentioned that basically everywhere
they've said anything about the VMU.
btw, the Pocketstation has a battery life of 5 hours. So quit your bitchin'.
>
> the watch battery in my neo pocket is supposed to last years according
> to SNK.
Yeah, and the *watch battery* isn't supplying power to it, is it? The batteries that
supply power last 40 hours. Again, you got nothing to complain about with the VMU.
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batteries, load em' in, and turn on your DC. No more noise.
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Dallas Eli
<mgreerN...@artic.edu.invalid> wrote:
>In article <7vuv4a$db0$1...@news.gte.com>, "Chet"
><chetw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> It is probably the VMU, mine does this to tell me it is out of
>> battery
>> power. It will still save games and such becuase the DC itself
>> gives it
>> power, but you cannot use it outside the controller till you get a
>> new
>> battery.
>
>yeah, the damn batteries last a month!! that's ridiculous! and so kind
>of sega to casually never mention that in regards to the VMU.
>
>the watch battery in my neo pocket is supposed to last years according
>to SNK.
>
>Matt
Hmm, that's strange I've left my VMU on over night 2 or 3 times to try
to see if I could run them down and after 2 months it still works fine
and shows no sign of weak batteries.
Dallas Eli
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Dallas Eli
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>
>tortoise <mgreerN...@artic.edu.invalid> wrote in message
>news:2750ac20...@usw-ex0102-010.remarq.com...
>> In article <7vuv4a$db0$1...@news.gte.com>, "Chet"
>> <chetw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > It is probably the VMU, mine does this to tell me it is out of
>> > battery
>> > power. It will still save games and such becuase the DC itself
>> > gives it
>> > power, but you cannot use it outside the controller till you get a
>> > new
>> > battery.
>>
>> yeah, the damn batteries last a month!! that's ridiculous! and so kind
>> of sega to casually never mention that in regards to the VMU.
>>
>> the watch battery in my neo pocket is supposed to last years according
>> to SNK.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>
>Um if you knew how to read, one of the precautions in the VMU instructions
>states to NOT leave it plugged in the controller when not in use. I have a
>import Godzilla VMU that is still running fine.
>
>
I leave my VMU in the controller al the time because it goes to sleep
after a few minutes so how can it run down the batteries? My first
VMU I got on 9-9-99 still works fine and it's usually in my DC
controller.
Dallas Eli
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Dallas Eli
<rfmc...@suchiepaijas.net> wrote:
>
>
>Knight of the Black Rose <aefig...@miavx1.muohio.edu> wrote in message
>news:1999Nov...@miavx1.muohio.edu...
>>
>> My Dreamcast makes a loud long beep when I press power button to boot up a
>> game.
>> Is this normal? I don't recall it always doing this.
>> Can't find my manual for some reason...
>
>My guess is you have a VMU with dead or near-dead batteries plugged into a
>controller, and it's what's beeping. This is one of those beeps that's hard
>to tell exactly where it's coming from.
>
>I don't think the DC itself is capable of beeping.
>
>--
>Raymond
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My DC beeed when I reset the internal memory so I could start over on
entering my ISP info.
Dallas Eli
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