computer beeps

[darkorb]

my friends computer, is just beeping, like hig, low , high low. BEEP beep BEEP beep, and just keeps on going, he said it started about a month ago when he installed guild wars, then the sound happened, so he closed the game, and form then on, it just beeps from start up to shut down

[werty316]

is the beeping form his speakers of case speaker? Maybe its a warning beep telling him one of his temps are too high? Unplug the speaker cable from the motherboard; that should solve the beeping ;)

[Xero (1)ne]

sound card problem?
reinstal the drivers, or you can mute the pc speaker in the advanced volume control options in the control pannel

[darkorb]

i think its the actual pc itself, ill go to his housethis week and dl speedfan for him , and see his temps, thanks u guys!

[DragonMaster]

CPU fan or voltage detection?

[tomo]

I doubt it's a voltage detection. He got his computer from a University (his dad is a proffeser) and he hasn't upgraded anything. I remember that it started beeping when he plays games.

[DragonMaster]

He got his computer from a University (his dad is a proffeser) and he hasn't upgraded anything.
Maybe the PSU started having problems at the same time?

[darkorb]

i jsut gave him speedfan, apparently his cpu is at 79 degrees. the beeping stops when it goes below 70, im gonna have him open it up and just blow out all the dust tomorow

[werty316]

That CPU temp at 70c is way too hot; anything over 60c is bad in my opinion. Best to clean out the dust if any but if there isn't any use AS5 or OCZ Ultra5+ and reseat the heatsink.. and your welcome ;)

[DragonMaster]

That CPU temp at 70c is way too hot; anything over 60c is bad in my opinion. Best to clean out the dust if any but if there isn't any use AS5 or OCZ Ultra5+ and reseat the heatsink.. and your welcome ;)

IMO, anything over 50°C is bad. (2/3 of the processors I used crashed at 54°C)

I would just tell one thing more, even if there's dust, you should check the thermal paste. If it's an Intel CPU with the stock paste or any CPUs with a thermal pad, there's going to be a big difference. (I got about 15-20°C less by switching from Intel stock cooler to TT Volcano 3 with Antec silicon paste on my P3 800MHz)

[darkorb]

its a business computer for his parents, so i dont think he woul dbe aloud to change heatsink, just a good dusting should lower the temps.

anything over 50 for me is too warm. tomos dual core is hitting 58, maybe he needs to do somthing too?

[tomo]

I'm gonna buy a fan.

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS39149809&catid=22894

LOL!!! Ima just gonna keep my case open and have that fan going at it...I'm not actually going to do that but would that work?

[DragonMaster]

LOL!!! Ima just gonna keep my case open and have that fan going at it...I'm not actually going to do that but would that work?

Yes, it would work, that's actually what I'm doing with the main system here, an Athlon XP 2000. After upgrading the cooler 2 times, changing the NB cooler, changing the GPU cooler, putting RAM sinks on the video card, putting a rear case fan, removing the cheesy air "filter" on the back of the case for the output fan, and putting AS5 for the CPU, the computer was still overheating, so a cheap 8" fan fixed my problems.