fz190 random beep

sometimes my pc makes a single loud beep (even when on mute).. my wifi is off, my volume/speakers are off, i dont have to be doing anything...it can just be idle on desktop and it will randomly beep..

this happens once in a while..like every week or two...


any idea?

 

hi all, it happened again... pc has only been on for like 20 minutes and it made that loud beep... sounded like it came from the upper left hand corner of the laptop (near esc key corner) any ideas?

have ANY of you had this? i might have to get this checked out :|

 

BIOS beep codes for Sony® notebook computers.

* 1 short/no error - (Normal. POST successful)
* 1 long 2 short - (Video Controller Failure or faulty add-on card)
* 1-3-3-1 - (DRAM refresh failure)
* 3-3-1 - (Parity Circuit Failure)
* 1-3-1-3 - (System Timer Failure)
* 1-4-1-3 - (Processor Failure)
* 1-3-3-1 - (Keyboard Controller / Gate A20)
* 1-3-4-3 - (Virtual Mode Exception Error)


Ok, I got the 1 short beep, but why does it do it so randomly?

anybody have an answer?

 

Those BIOS beeps ONLY occur during the boot process. Actualy BEFORE the boot process. POST = Power On Self Test.

Did you look in the logs to see if there was any event corresponding to the beep time? Was the machine sitting idle? What was running?

Gary

 

gary thanks for the response. where can i find those logs? and no, i was using the pc all the times it did that noise, sometimes i would just be on my desktop moving files around, or just surfing the net..

 

Start > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer

Gary

 

Check maybe you have a stuck key in the keyboard that could also produce the beeping sound.

 

Lots of people have repoted this problem...there is a topic around here somewhere....

 

A stuck key would cause a repeated beep not just a single beep like Duke2007 is reporting.

Gary