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eSDee
12-06-2001, 07:25 PM
A friend mine just got a new computer, and he tells me that it beeps at random times. He says its coming out of the tower and not the speakers. I thought it might be the speaker on his modem, but he says he disabled it. Any ideas? Should he yank the modem out? Thanks!
twest17
12-06-2001, 07:27 PM
the system speaker..... the little one usually inside the front of the case
DoPeY5007
12-12-2001, 04:33 PM
does he have a R2-D2 unit inside the PC? :heh:
eSDee
12-12-2001, 05:02 PM
Originally posted by DoPeY5007
does he have a R2-D2 unit inside the PC? :heh:

:stupid:

Thanks twest. You are right it is coming from that little speaker. Do you know of what might be causing it to make those noises? Is there any way to shut it off besides unpluggin the wires? Peace.
SpeedEng
12-12-2001, 05:15 PM
it really depends when the beeping occures. if the person upgraded anything on the system make sure that the connections are snug especially the memory.

Hey u did say he just bought it right!?! return it get a new one!
if nothing works
xsiled2
12-12-2001, 05:19 PM
if its a gateway just have them send you a new one, they usually dont want the errored on back :D
eSDee
12-12-2001, 05:20 PM
His brother actually assembled it for him. I don't think he did a very good job since there is only 32MB RAM in it. In a p4 1.5ghz!!! Oh the humanity. :(

I imagine that everything is working fine on it, because it boots up no problem and runs ok. It just beeps, which is annoying the schit out of him.
sho.gun
12-12-2001, 06:16 PM
[QUOTE]Originally posted by EsDeeLoco
[B]His brother actually assembled it for him. I don't think he did a very good job since there is only 32MB RAM in it. In a p4 1.5ghz!!! Oh the humanity. :(


whoa nellie...:eek:
sbp
12-12-2001, 08:38 PM
Originally posted by EsDeeLoco
His brother actually assembled it for him. I don't think he did a very good job since there is only 32MB RAM in it. In a p4 1.5ghz!!! Oh the humanity. :(Good grief. http://sbp777.homestead.com/files/Charlie_Brown.gif
DoPeY5007
12-12-2001, 09:18 PM
it may be beeping because there isn't enough RAM :eek:
twest17
12-12-2001, 10:17 PM
Just add some more RAM, see if it still beeps. If it still does, check just to be sure R2-D2 isnt inside.
eSDee
12-13-2001, 12:18 AM
Hmmm not enough RAM would cause it to beep? Oh well he needs some anyways so we'll see if that solves the problem. Thanks.

hapoo coleslaw sbp where are you guys???
DoPeY5007
12-13-2001, 12:44 AM
Originally posted by EsDeeLoco
Hmmm not enough RAM would cause it to beep? Oh well he needs some anyways so we'll see if that solves the problem. Thanks.

hapoo coleslaw sbp where are you guys??? it may...


the internal speaker usaly only goes off on errors...


or it may be getting to hot or something
sho.gun
12-13-2001, 08:20 AM
Yup, it could be heat because some mobos have a built in thermal alarm that will beep once the proc gets hot. What kind of temps are you getting on that? Anything over 55C should be taken into consideration. And for the love of all things furry... get more RAM!
Markel
12-13-2001, 09:44 AM
Just out of curiosity, did he install any kind of memory monitoring software that might be trying to free up memory? Some such softwares can be configured to produce a sound whenever they see that available memory falls below a certain threshold, causing an attempt to "reclaim" some of it.