Sporadic weird sound chirping from laptop

It just started in the last several weeks. All of a sudden my laptop gives this two tone sound that sounds like a robot chirping.

I have no idea what causes it. I have no programs downloaded on the laptop that are different from my other laptops and they don't make the sound.

It mostly happens when I am away from the laptop in another room -- but as I feed the sounds from my laptop through my speaker system -- it is loud enough to get my attention.

It sounds like a signal some cheap electronic mechanism might give off when the battery is dying.

The last few times I ran to see that NIS put up an indicator that an idle scan was being started. But I have NIS on my other laptop with no such sound effects.

I wish there was a way I could "record" it and add it as an attachment so people could hear it. It is extremely annoying.

 

Is it a Dell?

I have the same thing. We don't know what it is. It happens about once a month.

 

No its an ASUS.... weird you have it too. It's got to be a program -- maybe a virus?

 

It`s most likely the hdd, they do make clicking, clunk, chirping, and beeping noises and you can go for months without hearing anything and then one day you hear it, and once you have heard it, you will hear it a lot more.

 

It might also be interference with the audio system that causes the speakers to sometimes make a popping sound... I had this issue with the Dell Studio 15, model that had a very poor quality audio system.

 

I had the same issue with my HP, its something with the sound driver communicating with Windows because I never heard it when I was playing music or video.

After a sound driver update it went away.

 

At least I am not alone.

I am using the laptop now in my study, where it is not hooked up to the speakers. I haven't heard a chirp yet but it would need to be here for few days for a good test.

 

was your mobile near it at the time?
some badly shielded speakers can pick up the phone checking the cell towers

 

You haven't got a wireless mouse by any chance?

 

The laptop has been in the back room for a couple of days and no chirp that I've noticed. Beginning to think that the earlier suggestion that it was some interaction with the laptop and the speaker system that caused it.

EDIT: It's been four days -- no chirping -- so I suspect it was the connection with the speakers in the front room.

 

It would be good if you could record it

On that note... I know that my laptop's speakers tend to respond to my cellphone - or any cellphone in the same room - also happened on my old laptop when doing A-levels.

If it was on you could tell when someone got a text message - but I wouldn't describe it as a chirping...

(And here is an off topic question... why am I using American English? It's a mobile phone and isn't a text message an SMS? Well... maybe that needs though )