nycindustries

Hi, I have a desktop PC P4, 3.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9600, 200 GB hard disk.

Almost everytime I play games on my computer, especially those having high system requirements, or when I burn DVDs, or when I search for files in Windows explorer, when I watch TV via my TV card, copy large files....
to say it in one sentence: everytime I do something on my computer that has a large CPU/RAM usage my computer begins giving off those beep tones... they come out of the pc speaker and are something like this:

high tone (pause varies) low tone, low, low, (pause), high, high... and so on
so it does not have any regularities, it is ererytime different, but the tones have always the same length.
Sometimes when I work it simply gives one short beep tone and that's it.

It is very annoying. But the weirdest thing happened today when I played a game. First I was hearing those beep tones, and then my PC began to give a regular sequence: low high low high low high low high.... with no breaks between. It stopped only when I turned off the computer.

Does anyone have any idea what it could be????
Maybe it is the CPU overheating, but I don't think so.
It is worth to mention that it happens only in Windows, so it cannot be anything about the BIOS. Or?

Please help!!!!
Thanx in advance

Bobo

What brand of computer is this?

What are your temps? If you don't know, download CPUz

nycindustries

I don't know what brand it is, really... ;-)
I use Everest home edition.

Here are the results from the tag "sensor":
((I should also mention that the cpu temperature reaches 85 °C (185°F) at times))

Sensor Properties:
Sensor Type Winbond W83627HF (ISA 290h)
GPU Sensor Type National LM63 (ATI-I2C 4Ch)
Motherboard Name Abit IC7 / IS7 Series

Temperatures:
Motherboard 46 °C (115 °F)
CPU 71 °C (160 °F)
PWM 68 °C (154 °F)
GPU 46 °C (115 °F)
GPU Ambient 41 °C (106 °F)
Maxtor 6K040L0 35 °C (95 °F)
Seagate ST3160021A 47 °C (117 °F)

Cooling Fans:
CPU 2280 RPM
North Bridge 5625 RPM

Voltage Values:
CPU Core 1.33 V
+3.3 V 3.28 V
+5 V 5.11 V
+12 V 12.16 V
+5 V Standby 5.02 V
VBAT Battery 3.38 V
DIMM 2.64 V
DIMM VTT 1.30 V
AGP VDDQ 1.57 V
Debug Info F 25 0F FF
Debug Info T 46 71 68
Debug Info V 53 A5 CD BE C8 62 51 (01)

Bobo

Well you definitely have temperature problems. I don't know if that's what the beep tones are, but it certainly seems likely. 71C is WAY too high.

Open up your computer and clean out the dust, and make sure all the fans are properly running. You probably need a new CPU cooler.

nycindustries

I'll try that. thanx

The_Other_One

Agreed... Maybe replace the fans too, or get better ones and/or a better heatsync.

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mattsprattuk

as long as theres no performance issue, just take off your CMOS speaker

The_Other_One

Not a good idea. Heat will cause other devices to fail. I have seen capacitors fail becaues case temps were too high.

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Emperor_nero

And why on earth would he want to do that just because you can't hear the beeps dosn't mean the problem will magicly go away!

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