Occasional 'beep' from the 579x?

This is a 5791 from 6mo or a year back.

Every once in awhile (perhaps an hour or two after a reboot?) it does the hardware 'beeep' noise; not a loud one, but sort of like when you type too much into the BIOS buffer and you get a 'beeep'

I thought it was a buffer overrun on the keyboard for awhile since I'm usually typing whern it happens, but today it just happened while I was working on another machine .. just heard the beep from the side.

Any idea?

jeff

 

How are your temperatures? Also does anything get logged in event viewer?

 

Don't have temperature viewing setup (didn't set up any fancy overclocking tools yet), but it was just resting with a browser open.. no gaming. The fans are always on, but it is resting on a passive cooling pad (Thermaltake). Could have been that.. does it beep when it gets warmer?

(I do have the 8800GTX in there)

Event viewer?

jeff

 

Check your temps with this: http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

In Winxp, if you right click "My computer" and click Manage, there should be an event viewer so you can check for system/hardware error messages. You can expand the "trees" that list them.

For Vista, just click the start button and type eve into the search box. Click on event viewer.

 

Interesting, wasn't aware of that (I've seen it, and discounted it, years ago). slick.

Arond that time (guessing), there was a pair of these:

TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.

I wonder if any of these 'beep' ..

I will look into temp monitoring.

What sort of temps should I be looking at for browsing/resting (non gaming)?

jeff

 

Niiiiiiice!

Hardware monitor
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ACPI hardware monitor
Temperature sensor 0 52°C (125°F) [0xCB2] (THRM)
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Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T7700 hardware monitor
Temperature sensor 0 45°C (112°F) [0x37] (core #0)
Temperature sensor 1 47°C (116°F) [0x35] (core #1)

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GeForce 8800M GTX hardware monitor
Temperature sensor 0 48°C (118°F) [0x30] (GPU Core)
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SAMSUNG HM250JI hardware monitor
Temperature sensor 0 50°C (121°F) [0x32] (HDD)

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jeff

 

Hi,

Go to the Windows Sound options and turn the "PC Beep" volume-bar all the way down...Check this screenshot to see what I mean: http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7522/beepqc9.png

 

Cookie -- could, but I was rather hoping to find out the cause, rather than just hide it

ie: I have worried if its something bad going on .. some hardware going funky or somethign attacking the machine and so forth.

jeff

 

Those seem like excellent temperatures to me. To answer your question about it, some systems beep to indicate they're approaching a critical temperature to give you time to try to save data before the whole thing shuts off to save itself.

Since your temps seem great, I'd have to think it's something else. Are you running with the AC plugged in or off battery power? Might be a battery alarm sound. Just for the sake of being sure, you could look in your Power Management settings in Control Panel, under the Alarms section, and see at what battery level the system is meant to alarm and if a sound notification is turned on.

Does it beep several times in a row, like an alarm clock going off, or does it beep just one time?

 

JoeNewberry's suggestion is a good one - it could be part of the battery/power management system.

 

Or something is wrong with the board... Maybe check if one of your memory is lose...

 

RAM looks okay; I wondered that myself, but I figured a loose RAM (or loose anything) would cause a short, or spontaneous crashes or something. The machine is bullet proof.

Still no clue, but it seems harmless (so far..)

I'll have to keep an eye on some logs and see if its a warning from somewhere. I generally always run on power so its not a battery level thing likely.

USB port for the external mouse does seem to crash once in awhile.. I wonder if theres an issue with the mouse or USB port causing input buffer overloads or something.. hmm..

Thanks for your tips everyone

jeff