Sager NP8130 Random Single Beep

Hello all, I have a Sager NP8130 that I bought in March. Today, all of a sudden, it started producing a random single short beep from the system. Even with headphones in it comes from the PC as if it had an internal speaker (it may).

Its coming from the right side around the optical drive. There's no disc in the drive and I never felt it spin up. I know the harddrive is in the front-center but it shouldn't be making random beeping noises either.

CPU temps as well as GPU and hdd are all quite low, it doesnt happen under load and it happens at random anywhere from 10 minutes apart to 2 hours or longer.

I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this or if they knew what it may be?

 

I wanted to add that I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and the battery is fully charged as well and plugged in.

I've checked the BIOS codes but there aren't any for a single short, high pitched beep.

 

The high pitched beep could be your harddrive experiencing problems. What is the state of S.M.A.R.T. for your harddrive? Many mechanical HDD issues will emit what sounds like beeps when they are failing.

If you mute the speakers, does it still beep? I think the system does have an internal speaker as it beeps on bootup.

 

I am about to head home and will check the state.

I can hear it when I mute the speakers or have headphones in it still emits from the pc. Also, thank you for your reply!

 

Attribute Current Raw Overall
Raw Read Error Rate 115 95355382 Very good
Spin Up Time 97 0 Normal
Start/Stop Count 100 92 Very good
Reallocated Sector Count 100 0 Very good
Seek Error Rate 69 7501035 Normal
Power On Hours Count 100 523 Very good
Spin Retry Count 100 0 Very good
Power Cycle Count 100 91 Very good
End To End Error Count 100 0 Very good
Reported Uncorrectable Errors 100 0 Very good
Command Time Out 100 0 Very good
High Fly Writes 100 0 Very good
GSense Error Rate 100 2 Very good
Power Off Retract Count 100 0 Very good
Load Cycle Count 91 18973 Very good
Hardware ECC Recovered 44 95355382 Normal
Current Pending Sector 100 0 Very good
Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count 100 0 Very good
Ultra DMA CRC Error Rate 200 0 Very good
Write head 100 4382 0 453 Very good
Unknown attribute 241 100 3093154383 Very good
Unknown attribute 242 100 1267073593 Very good
Free fall protection 100 0 Very good

All of the attributes of your hard disk have normal values. This is good.

The overall fitness for this drive is 90%.
The overall performance for this drive is 95%.

 

Quick update, running virus scan (though unlikely since this is my workhorse programming box), before that just heard it happen twice within 1 minute, the fastest it has happened. It doesn't sound like the CD drive, but I certainly don't know.

I have emailed XoticPC (who I bought it from) but have had no response since 11:30 last night. I figured at least 24 hours though.

 

What is the manufaturer and model of you HDD?? mine was a Seagate and had a similar issue when it would lag when it made a beep noise, updating the HDD's firmware fixed the problem and improved the performance!

 

Mine is also a seagate, did you get the firmware from seagate, xotic (or other 3rd party), clevo, or sager?

 

Mine is the ST9500420AS
ST9500420AS Momentus 7200.4 SATA 3Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive | Seagate but according to Seagate's site they don't have any software for it

 

YouTube - ‪MacBook pro 7200rpm click + beep + freeze‬‏ though this is a macbook, it is running the same drive and its the same noise at the end! If that firmware fixed it for you I will absolutely be grateful to you if you still have a link to it!

 

sorry to bump an old thread, but my np8130 does the exact same thing as that macbook pro in that video. It makes the same beep and stutters for a second like in that video. Was this ever resolved? I have the same hard drive as the OP

 

I think I have the same drive as well. I noticed that it makes a beep noise, but it is only when I pick up the laptop I believe. I haven't had it long though so I will listen for it more

 

Anyone know what firmware they have on their hhd? Mine is 0002SDM1 and I am not having any beeping or clicking issues. Also where do you download the lastest firmware for clevo's ST9500420AS?

 

Mine is almost brand new as well. Only had it for about 2 months but it makes the beeping during or after some gaming usually. I messaged sager directly and they pretty much ignored my email....

 

If you got the lappy from a reseller message them and have them contact sager, you get response that way better.