Chopkinsca Posted February 17, 2003 every couple minutes, the computer beeps.. one beep, than a higher pitched beep.. it is starting to get annoying, and I don't know what to do. *hint hint* 0 Share this post Link to post
Stealthy Ivan Posted February 17, 2003 Just give it a good swift kick...? Or maybe its trying to tell you some thing...! ah haha Violence + Technology are bad bed partners!!! 0 Share this post Link to post
Amaster Posted February 17, 2003 It might help if you told us more. What are you doing when this happens? 0 Share this post Link to post
Chopkinsca Posted February 17, 2003 I do have a tendency to want to trash a computer.. but the only thing that stops me is that it isn't mine. maybe resetting the computer would fix it. that seems to solve many problems.. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted February 17, 2003 Talking about violence, I have an old P166 that sometimes (not often) fails to read/detect the HDD (which is probably the oldest thing in the box... a 400 MB drive) on startup, making a noise, not a beep, just something that is failing in there. But if I slap the case when it's failing it beeps properly and starts up. 0 Share this post Link to post
Chopkinsca Posted February 17, 2003 I am just doing normal things that I always do. Sort of playing games, listening to music. this is mostly why it annoys me, because I didn't do anything out of the ordinary. edit: what does OSDmain do? it was one of the applications running when I just checked.... 0 Share this post Link to post
DOOM Anomaly Posted February 17, 2003 Its Trying to communicate with you through Morse code!!!!!! :D 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted February 17, 2003 Yes, sometimes, when bugs crawl into the case, and they avoid dying by electrocution or other means in the uncaring machine, they can become melded to some part of the computer's circuits, thus becoming part of it an imbuing it with a primitive sort of sentience. 0 Share this post Link to post
Vominus Posted February 17, 2003 You might wanna just record as much information as you can gather regarding the problem and then write up an e-mail to the company or something... 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted February 17, 2003 Fortunately we have cold enough winters that cockroaches and such can't live here (crossing fingers), but I do get quite the moth buildup. At one point I decided to clean my room-fan after a moth corpse had been clearly visibly lodged in the front of the protective cage for a few months. 0 Share this post Link to post
ghost Posted February 17, 2003 AndrewB said:Fortunately we have cold enough winters that cockroaches and such can't live here i don't think cockroaches mind the cold - considering they can survive nuclear winter and everything. armageddon and all that's left is cockroaches and anne robinson. 0 Share this post Link to post
maxspeed Posted February 17, 2003 If you have hardware monitoring program, check its options it might be complaining about high temps or something with beebs. 0 Share this post Link to post
Stealthy Ivan Posted February 17, 2003 Or.... unplug the pc speaker!!! hahaha 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMBoy Posted February 17, 2003 Sounds to me like your computer's a time bomb :P 0 Share this post Link to post
kain Posted February 17, 2003 does it make a beeping sound or a clicking sound? try not hitting more than 5 keys at the same time. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted February 17, 2003 myk said:Talking about violence, I have an old P166 that sometimes (not often) fails to read/detect the HDD (which is probably the oldest thing in the box... a 400 MB drive) on startup, making a noise, not a beep, just something that is failing in there. But if I slap the case when it's failing it beeps properly and starts up. On a related note: My souncard, as usual, fails it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gokuma Posted February 19, 2003 What does it mean if your PC speaker sometimes sounds like a siren when you turn it? I turn it back off and then on again after a little bit and it's fine. 0 Share this post Link to post
DarkWolf Posted February 19, 2003 Gokuma said:What does it mean if your PC speaker sometimes sounds like a siren when you turn it? I turn it back off and then on again after a little bit and it's fine. I knew of an ASUS board that would make that siren noise when the processor wasn't inserted into the slot all the way. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gokuma Posted February 19, 2003 Yeah, it's an Asus K7M. It hasn't done it in a while, maybe since I replaced my blown power supply and made sure everything was tiight. My processor once came loose to the point where it wouldn't do anything. I accidently bumped the case on something bringing it into someone's house to play lan games. For some reason I forget why, I don't have all the securing parts on. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted February 19, 2003 myk said:Talking about violence, I have an old P166 that sometimes (not often) fails to read/detect the HDD (which is probably the oldest thing in the box... a 400 MB drive) on startup, making a noise, not a beep, just something that is failing in there. But if I slap the case when it's failing it beeps properly and starts up. thats asking for a good case of head crash. honestly why dont u replace it? that beeping is normaly heard at boot. however if it is still doing it when windows is up you have a problem 0 Share this post Link to post
DarkWolf Posted February 19, 2003 Gokuma said:Yeah, it's an Asus K7M. It hasn't done it in a while, maybe since I replaced my blown power supply and made sure everything was tiight. My processor once came loose to the point where it wouldn't do anything. I accidently bumped the case on something bringing it into someone's house to play lan games. For some reason I forget why, I don't have all the securing parts on. This particular computer case was dropped on the floor. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted February 19, 2003 Korn, the FBI are going to steal your computer. :P 0 Share this post Link to post
kain Posted February 19, 2003 well, you wouldnt know. reading the old 2600's i was informed at how the fbi attends to hackers. they obtain everything. all electrical appliance that has a built in menue such as a vcr,pda, your computer, all your disks. everything. i would hit on my harddrive or do a low level format if i was ever a hacker and i got caught. also, i would swipe all my floppies next to a massive magnet. hm... maybee its doing this cus something isnt plugged in all the way or in the wrong place. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted February 20, 2003 Sephiroth said:thats asking for a good case of head crash. honestly why dont u replace it? that beeping is normaly heard at boot. however if it is still doing it when windows is up you have a problem Only happens sometimes, rather rarely. The sound is like a little thump, as if the HDD needle (or whatever the reader is called) fails to read correctly, and eventually the machine gives up looking for the HDD (unless I give it a slap or two in time.) It happens only at startup, though, never while Windows is running. The reason is probably because the HDD is like 10 years old. 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted February 20, 2003 And then it was like beep beep beep beep.. bummer. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom-Child Posted February 20, 2003 Sounds like a problem with yer, whaddya call it, electro-compu-thingy. Go fetch Grandpa another bourbon. DC P.S. 1000th post! How fitting that it should be spam. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted February 20, 2003 *hits head repeatedly on desk How come no one told him this yet? ... Its the sound of your computer overheating. If it beeps every 30 seconds or so, thats the computer warning you that its beginning to overheat. I think it also beeps more often as it gets hotter. I forget what device actualy detects the heat level, but I think its either the CMOS or CPU. At any rate, there are some things you should do: 1) Shut down the computer for 2 or 3 hours. 2) If its hot inside the room, turn a fan or two on and or open the window (room temperature can effect the computer). 3) If it still continues to overheat quickly, get a better fan for your computer. If that still doesn't work then either A) your computer has been slightly overclocked and I dunno how to help you there, or B) its another problem completely. 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted February 20, 2003 My friend Grant got a new computer over Christmas break, and he couldn't get it working in town. He was back and forth between Dallas and his hometown where he bought the thing, and where it worked. Turns out his fan was bad, and it was just cool enough at his home to where it would work. Right now, he's got the case open and has a room fan at its most powerful setting blowing across the motherboard. It works. :) 0 Share this post Link to post