Laptop Beeping!

Hello!

I've come here because I'm in desperate need of help and advice.

My laptop has recently began, what it seems, to beep randomly. Sometimes it's in intervals of 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7.

I have a Sager NP9260 and the only noticeable thing that happens when my laptop starts beeping is the status lights might flicker a few times. Besides that, everything else runs fine. My laptop boots correctly, I am plugged in, I've checked my Event Viewer and nothing major comes up, temperatures at the time are normal, I have a screen saver, and I don't have multiple keys being pressed down.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

Is it the same beep that sounds when your battery is about to die? Mine started doing that while plugged in and I contacted sager support. They sent me the files to flash the bios, and it fixed the problem.

 

Yes, it is the same beep. I'll give them a call tomorrow but one thing I forgot to note was that I did replace the graphics card and did flash the BIOS so that it would support the card, would this deter Sager support from helping me?

 

I would assume that it voids the warranty, can't you swap it back to he old card and reflash the old bios?

 

This will not void the warranty on a sager. They should still help you.

What bios version and gfx card are you running on it?

 

Try toggling your fans, as well, using Fn+1 (NOT F1). We had a couple of customers who were deployed and getting this beep. Ramping the fans to full speed with Fn+1 seemed to remove the beeping, although the system never overheated when the fans were running at normal speed, which made it a bit of an oddball issue.

 

I'm trying this right now and just kind of doing what I normally do on my laptop to see if any beeping occurs. If it does solve the problem, am I supposed to just keep my fans at full speed all the time?

My BIOS Version/Date is Phoenix Technologies LTD 6.00, 11/18/2008.

The graphics card I put in is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M.

I can't because my old graphics card died on me.

 

If you enter the bios, on the first page it should have a version number in the style 1.00.xx where xx is probably 20 or 22

 

I've searched through it but could not find anything like that. For my Sager, it says to press F2 to enter System Utilities, is this the same as the BIOS? I assume it is because it's where I can set the boot priority and stuff.

 

If toggling your fans to full speed fixes it, then I thought it is because of a bus conflict. The fan controller and keyboard controller both run over the same bus. Hence if you are typing and doing something on the keyboard and the fan controller is monitor temps and adjusting fan speeds, then conflicts may arise. Once you toggle the fans to full speed, the fan controller no longer needs to do anything so you no longer have conflicts with the keyboard. They did fix this in a BIOS flash. There was a very, very long thread about this issue a long, long time ago in a forum (ok, it was this forum) far, far away.

 

So far, toggling the fan has seemed to fix my issue because I haven't had any beeping in awhile. I'm fairly confident I flashed my BIOS with the most recent update from the "Clevo BIOS" thread but is there any harm in trying to do it again?

 

There should be no harm in reflashing the most recent bios/kbc firmware.