Weird BEEPs coming from central unit...

[ahogg]

Hi alll!

I'm currently experiencing a mystifying bug from my harware. Every so often, some part of my machine starts emitting beeping sounds. What's extremely weird is that it seems to be playing tunes, in a more or less random order. I should say that it doesn't sound like error codes. I'm supposing that the only bit of hardware with an onboard sound emitter would be the motherboard. On the other hand, I can't find anything wrong with the setup at the moment, and the sounds seem to start mostly when I start video intensive tasks.
I have an Asus P4G8X Deluxe motherboard, a Gigabyte Maya Radeon 9700 Pro vid card, 1 gig ram and P4 2.53GHz. has anyone had this kind of problem before, or does anyone know what it could be about?

Anthony

 

[mainegeek]

Hello ahogg,
Your cpu may be running hot and the sound you are hearing may be the upper threshold being reached on the mobo's cpu
temp monitoring. You need to check the cpu temp in the bios. Let the machine run for about 5 minutes and then check the temp and post it back here.

 

[ahogg]

hi maine and thanks!

there's no way i'm going to be able to post the cpu temperature, since the cpu's dead. I gutted the beast, and the fan was dusty, but not enough to slow down really. I'm pretty upset, that was an expensive processor!

Anthony