Quote Originally Posted by leftystrat
... They go off every 15 minutes ...

thanks,
jeff the momentarily sane
No clue, but, if I was going to guess, I'd say, you started some kind of timer, or alarm clock program... ( tea cooker, alarm clock, etc... )

Check your task bar, check your clock, and then check the ( default ) four window screens ( desktops ) - if that doesnt get you anywhere, look for something in your BIOS... Possibly look in Control Center, in Power Management, and while you are there, check screen saver - possibly something...

How are you checking your processes? With top ???? Top is great, for what it was designed for, but not for "snapshots" of all the processess running... Wait for your "Grandfather Clock Chime" to go off in fifteen minutes, and in a Konsole, run ps auxw -=- then scroll back through the output, and see if you can find something running...

Hope this helps,
Ms. Cuddles