Computer beeping. All the time. But nothing seems "wrong". - SOLVED

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I have had my machine for 1-2 years now. And a few months ago, it started beeping occasionally. I originally thought it was a heat issue, but I am not overclocking and I am seeing no adverse effects (other than the beeping).

It is similar to this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2033618&page=2

It used to happen once every 3-4 hours. Then maybe several times in an hour and stop and then come back hours later (so maybe 20 times in one day).

I play video games all the time and never have any issues. No system crashes. No blue screens. No video anomalies. Just this beeping.

Well, I went on a work trip for 3 days (and left my computer in hibernate like I always do - I never shut it down) and came home to it beeping constantly. Like it beeps once every 4 seconds. Beep, silence, silence, silence, Beep....

The weird thing is I went to bed last night and decided to shut the system down - maybe it was a heat issue and I wanted to give it some relief. Well, when I got up this morning to turn it on, I noticed it is still beeping. WHILE THE SYSTEM IS COMPLETELY OFF. It beeps without it booted up. Constantly. I booted fine back into windows and still beeping. No other obvious system issues.

Only thing I can think is this is a battery powered device that the battery is about to die?

Here is my machine specs:
gigabyte mobo with intel i7-3770 @ 3.90 GHZ
32 Gig of RAM
Windows 7 pro 64 bit
Nvidia Geforce GTX 660
Running 2 monitors - Hanns G and Asus
onboard sound
Samsung SSD 840 series drive

Can anyone think of what this beeping could be? What should I be checking? If you need any additional system info, just let me know. It has become unignorable now.
Thanks in advance for the assistance!
 
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@Denis280: I went under computer management - system tools - event viewer - application and service logs - hardware events. And it is completely empty.

@Charlie98: No, I do not have an UPS or battery backup.

In my continued researching online with other people having this same sort of issue... one person was told to install speedfan and report the results (their cpu was running at 80c).
Here are mine (everything looks fine):
speedfan.jpg


And another person was told that their PSU was failing and needed to be replaced fast. I went on newegg and looked mine up. Purchased 5/10/2013 (almost exactly 1 year ago!)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817703038

This has to be the most expensive PSU I have ever bought in my life (and I have been building rigs for 25 years now). And I would venture to say 2x-3x more than any previous PSU I have ever bought. I really wanted this machine to last and be solid. So, is there anyway to test/know if it IS my power supply dying? Thanks again for the help.
 
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So, continued to diagnose... I decided to turn off my computer, open it up, and get at it with a compressed air can. I shut it down and could still hear the beeping. I pulled it out of the desk cabinet and picked up my 1TB western digital external passport hard drive that was sitting on top of the case to move to the side. The drive was spinning exceptional fast (vibrating my hand). I held it tightly and the beeping sound stopped! It is coming from the external hard drive! I googled "my passport" and "beeping" --

This pic at the top of the blue drive in the retail package, that is my drive:
http://voices.yahoo.com/western-digital-passport-external-hard-drive-beeping-12433901.html

This sound in the youtube video clip (beeping constantly) is my sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFkOTccHq88

Looks like the drive must be failing, I will order a replacement quickly. It still shows up in windows and I can access it just fine. I have 900g worth of irreplaceable data, so I guess I am REALLY happy for the warning before it just dies and I cannot access it at all like in the article above. Thanks for the assistance, maybe this will help someone else in the future.
 
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respawn said:
So, continued to diagnose... I decided to turn off my computer, open it up, and get at it with a compressed air can. I shut it down and could still hear the beeping. I pulled it out of the desk cabinet and picked up my 1TB western digital external passport hard drive that was sitting on top of the case to move to the side. The drive was spinning exceptional fast (vibrating my hand). I held it tightly and the beeping sound stopped! It is coming from the external hard drive! I googled "my passport" and "beeping" --

This pic at the top of the blue drive in the retail package, that is my drive:
http://voices.yahoo.com/western-digital-passport-external-hard-drive-beeping-12433901.html

This sound in the youtube video clip (beeping constantly) is my sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFkOTccHq88

Looks like the drive must be failing, I will order a replacement quickly. It still shows up in windows and I can access it just fine. I have 900g worth of irreplaceable data, so I guess I am REALLY happy for the warning before it just dies and I cannot access it at all like in the article above. Thanks for the assistance, maybe this will help someone else in the future.
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D:

Lucky for you, you figured it out before it's too late. Makes sense now, that it would beep even with the PC powered off.
 
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