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I can't quite put my finger on the cause of this oddity, and I usually can
figure these obscure things out...  ;]

My Dell XPS T800r, running Windows 2000, has recently started to beep every
so often during normal operation (I'm not talking about the boot up beeps -
this occurs after the OS has taken control).  The beep doesn't come out of
the desktop speakers however.  It comes from the motherboard - that little
piezo or whatever speaker onboard that is usually used when things fail in
BIOS....  It seems like it is beeping in a random time interval, sometimes
once every 2 minutes, sometimes once every 20 minutes.  This is not a series
of beeps either.  Just a single beep that just occurs seemingly at random.

I thought that maybe it might have something to do with Norton's Antivirus
2000 because at one point the beep occurred just as the Norton AV icon
appear in the tray, but disabling NAV didn't stop the beeps.

Could this be a warning from my BIOS (Phoenix by the way), that there is
some sort of problem?  My applications seem to be running fine.  The only
odd application related problem I have is the task scheduler - I can't seem
to get anything to run no matter what (yes the Task Scheduler service is
running).  However, I believe that might be a software thing....  But who
knows.

I tried to locate information on my motherboard, but to no avail.  Dell
tells me its a 440BX motherboard, which does me no good because there are
many out there.

I tried to reseat cards and memory and etc, but the beeps still occur.  I
reset my BIOS configuration, and that did nothing.

Has something like this happened to anyone else out there?

Anyone have any suggestions?

Any help is greatly appreciated..

Thanks,

Chris