Computer beeps at me at odd, random times

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Daggah

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The specifications of my system are in my signature. Every so often my computer will beep at me...it seems random, and sometimes it'll beep several times with each beep within a few seconds of each other. The beeping is not coming from my computer speakers OR the case speaker (it did it in my old case, which didn't even *have* a case speaker).

Here's what I know:

* My system has beeped with two Gigabyte GA-K8NS motherboards,
* It has beeped both with the POS Orion power supply that came with my old case AND my current Enermax power supply,
* It's not related to any error messages,
* I don't have any other symptoms (no instabilities, error messages, or anything else)
* It's not related to high temperatures (it happens sometimes when the computer is idling and I'm doing other things, and my temperatures are good throughout the system)
* I'm hooked up to a 110V power outlet (I'm in Europe, which uses 220V but I'm in an Air Force dormitory that provides 110 outlets as well)
* The power here operates at 110V 50Hz instead of 110V 60Hz like in the states
* The overall power quality here is not that great; I'm connected to a surge protector (I've been considering getting an UPS)

I kinda suspect that my motherboard has a buzzer somewhere that beeps whenever the power fluctuates a little, but I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas?
 
I have a gigabyte motherboad and it does teh EXACT same thing. Mines a P4 Motherboard and its rather damn annoying. It sounds like its my hardrive thats making the beeping noise. I cant figure it out.
 
Gigabyte's just psychotic like that. Next time get a brand with a better reputation, for now I'd say just ignore it.
 
Maybe it's just trying to keep you on your toes? Take a screwdriver to the beeper/pcSpeaker, that will fix it's wagon.
 
I had a problem something like that.
Fixed it by changing my fire alarms battery...... :eek:
The battery in it was dieing and so it was chirping at me at random intervals.
But atfirst I thought it was one of the computers as they all run 24/7.
So if its more a chirp than a beep check your fire alarm.

Another thing to check would be the temps of your vid card.

Luck........... :D
 
I think everybody's getting overly technical here...

I reckon it might be your keyboard. Something pressing down on a key perhaps, or the keyboard's crapping out. Swap keyboards with someone for a while and see how it goes. Does their PC start beeping, does your stop?
 
Colin - Gigabytes really will beep randomly for no apparent reason when it's just sitting there untouched and doing nothing. Sounds weird, I know.
 
ashmedai said:
Colin - Gigabytes really will beep randomly for no apparent reason when it's just sitting there untouched and doing nothing. Sounds weird, I know.
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How did something like that get through development? Is it possible that it's temp related, or fan rpm related? Never owned a Gigabyte board simply because their logo looked stupid, and they've never had the best reviews of a product when I've been in the market to get one.
 
That is crazy...and it puts me in a bind as well. This computer is fairly new; I put it together at the end of last year. There are other things I don't like about this board, but I don't want to replace it with another AGP/Socket 754 board at this point, and I don't want to throw out my CPU and video card in order to get a 939/PCI-X board. :(
 
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