A really long beep?

[rusty12]

I'm not exactly sure where this question should be posted but I thought this would be my best bet.

My question/problem is that whenever I turn my PC on from a cold start (leaving if off overnight, turning it on the morning) I get this extremely long beep from what sounds like the case speaker within the first 5 seconds of pressing the power button. I know there is always a beep or whatever when the MB posts (I think thats the proper term) but as of late since the weather has gotten cooler the beep lasts nearly 8 seconds long when it used to be like 1 second. Anybody have an idea if this is normal and I should just ignore it or is it something I should be worried about?

 

[Michael Daly]

It sounds like the CPU cooler fan setting.

If you have the fan set to spin only when the CPU temp hits a certain minimum and you have the alarm set to sound when the CPU fan isn't turning, you will get exactly what you describe.

To fix it, use the MB utility (or boot into BIOS) and set the CPU fan to start spinning at a lower temperature - set the minimum temperature below room temp.