Beep on the hour?

hehe, yeah. I know it's not my date and time prefs. I have no reminders that I know of. The Mac Pro is only a week old, so nothing is wrong.
How do I stop this "beep" sound? Sound like one of the alerts, but it happens to be the worse one, and it scares the crap out of me. The first few times, I spent an hour around the house trying to find a carbon monoxide leak!
Anyone help? I'm not as dumb as I sound, but I can't think of any reason why this new Mac is set to beep every hour by default.

I have this exact problem! I would add the following:
1: Mine is not on the hour but is mostly on about a 75(ish) minute interval.
2: It occurs only on the internal speaker and not the external speakers I use (USB speakers from an old cube)
3: It is not any of the sound effects is system prefs > sounds
4: I repartitioned and reinstalled Mac OS and on a Virgin Mac OS install it still occurs.
5: I can not get to the Apple Hardware Test via boot time snag keys, I have tried all permutations of the snag keys and none work and I am using a USB Apple keyboard (which came with the Mac Pro)
6: It is not the boot-time RAM error warning and I reseated my RAM anyway.
And 7: It's making me crazy!

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It could be a coincidence about the cat...
I can't find anything to turn it off. And it's slowly driving me crazy.
Any help gratefully received.
Cheers,
Mike
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there you can uncheck the alert.
hmm the only alert I see there is the 'Announce the time:' checkbox. It's unchecked, and when I check it, I get a voice and a beep!
Thanks tho... still puzzled.

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http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/07/13/stop-the-beeps-with-the-7200-rpm-hard-dis ks-of-the-macbook-pro
Stop the beeps with the 7200 rpm hard disks of the MacBook Pro
from HardMac.com by [email protected] (Lionel)
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the word following are preset and can used in the place a number for the level of APM
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Yeah, I don't buy that. I spoke with Seagate a couple of months ago when I was looking for the impossible to find 500 GB 7200 RPM HD and asked them that very thing. They told me it would work fine, but I should disable SMS. Apple told me the same thing. I ultimately waited and got a non G-Force model, but Seagate told me it would work.
I also don't believe that they'd OEM the drive to Apple knowing it wouldn't work. That makes absolutely no sense. If Seagate knew the G-Force drive would not function properly in an Apple MacBook/MacBook Pro, and they OEM'd it to Apple for that purpose anyway, what does that say about Seagate?
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http://public.me.com/dozierredraider
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DozierRedRaider,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
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