Saints go marching in audio warning?

[GusofOZ]

This is a new one to me. Has any one ever come across the internal speaker playing "when the Saints go marching in" constantly. And when O/S boots up it continues with the O/S running at a 1/10th of normal speed. It is not a virus that Norton could find. The Mother board is a San Li i430TX-W977TF. The problem has been intermittant, occuring approx 8 times over a 3 year period. This latest occurence which I witnessed has yet again dissapeared on returning the machine to my workshop.

 

[mpnut]

I would go to Control Panel>Sounds and see if that is set up as an event for something. If it's not, can you tell when it occurs, for example at bootup.

 

[franklin97355]

Try the forum for your OS.

 

[micker377]

I read about this about a year ago, Some setups were designed to play that song when CPU gets to a certain temp! On Intel CPU's the speed is reduced proportional to the heat ( the hotter - the slower). Check the cooling fans.

 

[GusofOZ]

I really don't think it has anything to do with the O/S as it starts on boot up. This would also discount the CPU temp as the Cooling fan is ok (so it would take time for the CPU to heat up if the fan was underperforming). Though I will pursue this avenue further. Thanks for your suggestions though.

 

[jpm121]

Run a virus scan as well -- some of the REALLY old school viruses would play all sorts of sounds through the PC speakers (before there was such a thing as sounds on a PC).

I'd be more inclined to think it's a motherboard warning sound - heat, power, fan RPM, etc.

 

[Jontmke]

I'm with micker377, the bios is doing this because of some alarm setup. Look in there and see what alarms they have configured.

Jon

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