WHOA !! MY PC **STILL** BEEPS at me - Part II => HELP !!!!!!

[BEIF]

Hi all !

Running a P4B-266-SE with a 1.6A **NOT** overclocked with 2 x 256 DDR PC 2100 sticks..

Anyway, all of a sudden the other day, whilst **IN** Windows XP Pro, my PC beeped at me !!!!!

No particular order - nop particular sequence - just a very few, very occassional randomn beeps. POST & BOOT up is fine - no abnormal beeps there - my beeps **ONLY** occur during a Windows session.....BUT Windows is running %100 OK....as soon as I heard a beep, I immediately checked Asus probe and all was well...

So....I did a full clean XP install and it **still** happens........what is going on !!!!

Checked inside and all my fans are running - front intake fan fins are quite dusty, but it is spinning fine....

PC is POST'ing, BOOTING and running and loading Windows XP Pro %100 with no lockups, BSOD etc...& I get no weird or unusual beeps during post or the rest of boot up or when Windows starts ......

=> what can cause such "beeping" during a Windows session ?

=> is there likely to be one particular component that is the "most likely" culprit ?

=> do these randomn beeps mean anything in particular ?

=> anybody have any idea what could be causing them ?

=> anyone have any suggestion about how to get rid of them ?

=> is there any type of de-bugging software I can use to track-the-problem down ?

All help & advice very much appreciated.

Benny [BEIF] Ifin - a very frustrated person !!!!

 

[mlaine]

Hi!

Maybe your keyboard buffer is overflowing for some reason - a key gets stuck or something is causing interference with keyboard driver ... It might cause beeping from PC speaker. You might want to try another keyboard or uninstalling (if any) special keyboard software. If you are using PS/2 connector double check that you are not connecting the keyboard to mouse port (keyboard in mouse port and mouse in keyboard port seems to work fine with some mobos for some reason)...

 

[SupermanCK]

where does the beeping coming from? the speaker connected to your sound card? or the tower speaker connected to your motherboard?

 

[BEIF]

It is coming from my PC speaker...

BEIF

 

[BEIF]

Oh, BTW, I forgot to mention that it ***SEEMS*** to only happen when I am connected to the net - I use a 56K modem connected to my COM port....have checked the settings there an all is well.....it is really weird too because this beeping problem just came up totally out of the blue - I hadnt even touched the PC case in weeks !?!?

Although my m/b, ram and cpu are all new, my ATX case is quite old - about 4 1/2 years old with the origianl front fan - the veteran of many upgrades.

Given that Windows and the PC are all booting fine & working fine, & that the beeps are coming from my PC speaker and not my sound cards, I'm wondering if the problem is likely to be that some of the case and/or speaker wiring inside the case is going bad or something, and hence the intermittent beeps !?!

Any thoughts ??

BEIF

 

[fatbaby]

i am having the same problem except its my mobo beeps! My mobo is the p4xb-sa, i can boot up, post, and load windows 100%, but when i start running tfc or prime95, it beeps at me!

Oh, BTW, I forgot to mention that it ***SEEMS*** to only happen when I am connected to the net

Are you sure it isn't your modem dialing up to your isp ?

Try running prime95, if you get a lot of beeps (like me), you have a cooling problem!

 

[BEIF]

Hi fatbaby

thanks for your comments- no it is definetly not my modem trying to re-dial or anything like that.

The beeps I get are your classic PC speaker beeps / blips - totally randomn and totally no order or sense to them - PC temps are all fine...

Voltages do seem a bit low though - idles at 3.17 - 3.22 V, 11.75 - 11.85v and 4.75 - 4.85v - using a 420w Topower p/supply for this Asus P4B 266-SE 1.6A set up.

Any thoughts ?

BEIF

 

[fatbaby]

does your psu say cwt-420?

did you run prime95 and get beeps?

 

[flashbacck]

everything runs fine? Just unplug the damn thing if all else fails, I say.

oh yeah, you said "it seems" to happen only when you're on the net? can you be sure of it? that would probably help narrow down the issue

 

[SupermanCK]

the beeping is either one or another...
right in bios manual, it stated:
[/i]One short beep when displaying logo - No error during POST
Long beeps in an endless loop - No Dram installed or detected
One long beep followed by three short beeps - Video card not found or video card memory bad
High frequency beeps when system is working - CPU overheated; System running at a lower frequency[/i]
The last one would most likely be the reason why your computer is beeping...or at least the CPU...check if there are good contact between HSF and CPU...I had this problem before when i was overclocking...all random beeps...supposely when it beeps...the P4 recognizes CPU is overheating and throttles down to a lower clcok speed until tempature are back down to a reasonable temp before throttles back up to your set speed...the only way i have been able to fix this beeping is either disconnect the speaker and ignore it because it doesn't seem to really effect anything, performance or other components...but who knows...the other way, which was the way i had was drop in a wire mod "U" and give it a 1.70v vcore at default...no more beeps...