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Article #3452Re: Annoying beeps on my Dell - they don't know what it is...
From: John
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:00
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Chris Milkosky <cmilkosky@newworldventures.net> wrote in message news:8lpo31$r4i$1@news.monmouth.com... > 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. . Processor overheating? Check the processor fan is working and still attached correctly. John
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