My Seagat HDD is beeping at me

[aviris]

I have an 80 gig Seagate Barracuda IV HDD that started beeping today. I can't find anything on the Seagate site about it, but found one reference on the web to a anomalous voltage that the HDD didn't like. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas. It started doing this two tone beeping (sounds alot like a european siren) . It went on long enough for me to pull the side of the case and stick my head in there. I thought it was the motherboard, but seems to be coming right from the HDD. The machine is still up and running - I closed all my apps and the beeping stopped (I was running Photoshop 7, ArcMap, Corel Presentations, several instances of Firefox and an explorer window or two)

Any ideas?

Other specs
MSI K7D-L, 2 Athlon MP 1800+, 1.5 gig crucial ram, Enermax 350W PS.

 

[ianbergman]

a HDD beeping? Wish i could help, but at least I can give you a free bump. You're sure it's not the PC speaker or a controller card?

 

[amdskip]

I honestly don't believe that a hard drive could beep. Do you have some kind of motherboard programming running that checks voltages as that would send an alarm to the system speaker possibly.

 

[LemonHerbWRX]

I have yet to hear of a HDD with a speaker built in. You may want to check event monitor for anything strange. As amdskip said it is likely some sort of program that is running at the time, before you jump to conclusions of something actually being broken make sure you aren't sporting a catalogue of spyware (run adaware) and do the normal msconfig and make sure nothing useless is in your startup (as well as in start>programs>startup). If you happen to be running 2k instead of msconfig you may have to go start>run and then browse t hkey local machien>software>microsoft>windows>current version>run (that may be wrong, but it is something like that. Also check the run once keys as well) and delete any useless entries from there.