Alarm Sound Coming from Motherboard?!

[Coldkilla]

Edited Main Post With My Second Post. (Its more descriptive):

It sounds like a police car's siren going off, but coming from the motherboard.

The PC can be off for 10 hours at a crack, turned on and once a certain game is running, it will make that sound. Other games however, do not make the motherboard make that sound.

Oblivion: Doesn't Beep. EVER.
Company of Heroes: Beeps Continuously
Company of Heroes Map Editor (Real Time In-game editing): Beeps Continuously
System Format (Not Quick Format): Beeps Continuously throughout Windows installation, however once desktop loaded it went away.
Rainbow 6 Vegas: Doesn't Beep. EVER.


So if it was overheating, it should be making that noise all of the time. However, it doesn't. Sometimes when the computer is loading an application, it will make a single beep or two (Basically the same alarm, the only difference being sometimes that alarm doesn't keep beeping, as soon as the app loads, it goes away).

Motherboard: Abit AN8 Ultra.
RAM: Corsair 1GB Ram (2 Years old).

 

[ViRGE]

The alarm probably means it's overheating(most likely the CPU). You should post the temperatures it's recording and what your setup is.

 

[Decoy84]

What mobo do you have? Are you running a system monitoring program like PC Alert? What kind of RAM do you have and how old is it? How many beeps are you getting?

 

[Coldkilla]

It sounds like a police car's siren going off, but coming from the motherboard.

The PC can be off for 10 hours at a crack, turned on and once a certain game is running, it will make that sound. Other games however, do not make the motherboard make that sound.

Oblivion: Doesn't Beep. EVER.
Company of Heroes: Beeps Continuously
Company of Heroes Map Editor (Real Time In-game editing): Beeps Continuously
System Format (Not Quick Format): Beeps Continuously throughout Windows installation, however once desktop loaded it went away.
Rainbow 6 Vegas: Doesn't Beep. EVER.


So if it was overheating, it should be making that noise all of the time. However, it doesn't. Sometimes when the computer is loading an application, it will make a single beep or two (Basically the same alarm, the only difference being sometimes that alarm doesn't keep beeping, as soon as the app loads, it goes away).

Motherboard: Abit AN8 Ultra.
RAM: Corsair 1GB Ram (2 Years old).

 

[Decoy84]

Disable HD AUDIO and give her a shot. What sound card do you have? Audigy?

 

[Coldkilla]

Yes. Audigy. It was making this sound even before the audio drivers were even installed.

Where can I find this HD Audio? I guess turning it off wouldn't hurt, but if I get this noise when I didn't even have sound card drivers installed previously... I dont know how the soundcard could be the issue here.

I've already taken the CPU out and applied some new thermal paste, the problem still occurs. I honestly don't believe it is overheating, it just doesn't seem logical (referring to examples in main post)

 

[Coldkilla]

Bump

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Coldkilla
Bump

Set Speedfan or a similar program up in the background and record what your temperatures and voltages are and get back to us. Everything you've said indicates a heat problem, since the games where it beeps are all CPU limited(rather than GPU limited like Oblivion and R6). And we need more system details, what do you have for a GPU, a CPU, disks, etc?

 

[Decoy84]

I believe you can disable HD Audio in the bios. Try ADVANCED -> ONBOARD DEVICE CONFIGURATION -> HD AUDIO and disable it then try runnin a prog that cause teh squeak of death

 

[Roguestar]

http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=32
Also check your motherboard manual for anything to do with it. Try turning off "Alarm on CPU temp limit" or whatever it's called in the BIOS, and check temps with CoreTemp to see if it's overclocking.

 

[Coldkilla]

How do I know wether or not its 'too hot'? Say I am playing a game, how can I know wether or not it currently is overheating? I cannot believe that this is overheating.... it just makes no sense.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Coldkilla
How do I know wether or not its 'too hot'? Say I am playing a game, how can I know wether or not it currently is overheating? I cannot believe that this is overheating.... it just makes no sense.

Instead & run Speedfan, have it record what the temperature currently is.

 

[Coldkilla]

where's the record button in the speedfan program? I don't see it

 

[Decoy84]

hmmm, maybe this prog will help http://www.uabit.com/index.php...product_name=AN8+Ultra

use abitEQ, an abit mobo owner should be able to help you with this...hint hint abit mobo owners...

 

[Blurring]

Coldkilla,

Just run a cpu burn in or similar application that doesn't take up the entire screen, and run speedfan in parallel with it.

Just google cpu burn in program (don't DL a virus) or install something like Boinc with the project Rosetta. Let it run for at least 10 minutes or so and write down the temps. Post 'em here with your model of processor as well.