HelpHelpHelp!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[doormouse]

I'm on my sister's PC... it's beeping!!!

Not even a reboot stopped it

Anyone?? please.. mine crashed yesterday... I don't want to fuck hers too.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I'm on my sister's PC... it's beeping!!!

Not even a reboot stopped it

Anyone?? please.. mine crashed yesterday... I don't want to fuck hers too.

If it's a lappy check the batterly low light and make sure it's fully plugged in.

-Colly

 

[sincerely_helene]

I'm on my sister's PC... it's beeping!!!

Not even a reboot stopped it

Anyone?? please.. mine crashed yesterday... I don't want to fuck hers too.

Fer the love of god, throw 'er out the window before she blows!









(Buncha peverts.)

 

[doormouse]

It's not a laptop.

It's seriously freaking me out.. anyone??

I lost mine yesterday, I don't want to blow hers too.

 

[sincerely_helene]

It's not a laptop.

It's seriously freaking me out.. anyone??

I lost mine yesterday, I don't want to blow hers too.

If there is a power bar, do a normal shut down then flick the switch, and wait a few seconds before turning it back on. Maybe run a scan afterward.

I'm no expert, but your desperate.

 

[SnoopDog]

Re: Re: HelpHelpHelp!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fer the love of god, throw 'er out the window before she blows!









(Buncha peverts.)

LOL. Now that was freakin' hillarious.

Snoopy

 

[doormouse]

Re: Re: Re: HelpHelpHelp!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL. Now that was freakin' hillarious.

Snoopy

Yeah real funny

I'm fucking stressing out here. I'm glad you're finding this humurous.

Jerk

 

[SnoopDog]

Re: Re: Re: Re: HelpHelpHelp!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah real funny

I'm fucking stressing out here. I'm glad you're finding this humurous.

Jerk

You know in the end it's just a bunch of transistors and chips beeping, it's not like the end of the world......
....you....
.....you damn.....
..... you.....
....you mouse you.....

( )

Snoopy

 

[snooper]

In the bottom right hand corner of your screen there is an icon that looks a bit like a black bowling ball. Left click that once. Click mute until the box is a tick, then click back in this message. If that shuts it up, then you can look for the cause. All that does is switch the speakers off.

 

[doormouse]

Okay, I'm calm.

Snoop,... forget it.

I'm glad you got a laugh.

Anyone, seriously know why it's beeping?

I can't lose my sister's PC.

 

[doormouse]

In the bottom right hand corner of your screen there is an icon that looks a bit like a black bowling ball. Left click that once. Click mute until the box is a tick, then click back in this message. If that shuts it up, then you can look for the cause. All that does is switch the speakers off.

There's nothing like that in the tray.

 

[sincerely_helene]

Here is a website telling you what various beeps might mean, and below is a possible solution to stopping it.
http://www.askhow.net/article37.html

Breathe.

The system beep does not go via the sound card so you cannot mute it
using the normal software volume controls. The system beep does not go
via the normal sound system so that motherboard can give you coded beep
sequences when it cannot boot at all. This is very useful when you are
doing your own hardware upgrades. Different boards give out different
beeps so if you have not kept the manuals you should download and print
them before you attempt an upgrade so that you can follow the trouble
shooting guide when the beeping starts.

The problem arises in that some software (particularly old stuff) likes
to beep at you when it does not understand a command by calling the
system beep command rather than playing you a little wav through the
sound card. This can drive you and your friends/family/workmates/boss
totally nuts.

The way around this is to disconnect the little lead that attaches the
beeping speaker from the motherboard. You should only do this if your
box boots normally and you are getting to the point where pulling the
plug on the beep would really make your day.

You should assume that you will forget that you did this and could end
up in trouble if you do have a genuine hardware problem that
motherboard beeps would help you to solve. To get around this leave a
post-it note inside your computer saying words to the effect of "you
unplugged the beep because you hated him. perhaps if you are back in
here looking to fix a problem you should reconnect the beep so that
your motherboard can talk to you in coded beeps".

 

[doormouse]

Okay, so there's a serious problem?

 

[Desamy]

You might have a key jammed stuck down somewhere on the keyboard.

 

[Desamy]

Try running a virus scan too, and make sure her anti-virus program is up to date.. if she has one, hopefully does!

 

[doormouse]

You might have a key jammed stuck down somewhere on the keyboard.

I can't see any and they all work *sigh*

 

[Desamy]

It's always been keys stuck, for me!
Try the virus scan thingy I suggested

 

[doormouse]

Mat, where are you hon, I need a shoulder

 

[sincerely_helene]

I can't tell you. I can't hear the beeping.

Check out that URL I sent to match the sounds with the diagnoses. If that doesn't help you figure it out, go to askjeeves.com and type "Why is my PC beeping at me?" in the keyword search. If you have been able to stick around without booting long enough to make all these posts in the past 45 mins, I would imagine you might still have enough time to find a possible reason and/or solution to your dilemma.

Good luck.

 

[doormouse]

I can't tell you. I can't hear the beeping.

Check out that URL I sent to match the sounds with the diagnoses. If that doesn't help you figure it out, go to askjeeves.com and type "Why is my PC beeping at me?" in the keyword search. If you have been able to stick around without booting long enough to make all these posts in the past 45 mins, I would imagine you might still have enough time to find a possible reason and/or solution to your dilemma.

Good luck.

Thanks hon, it's actually stopped. It's not my PC, so naturally I'm worried.

I'll do the google, thanks.

 

[SnoopDog]

Ok, it stopped but I want to do my contribution nontheless.

As far as I know pc's also tend to beep if an 'important' cable is loose, i.e. the cable to the monitor (of course that is not the case), the cable to the keyboard (that neither) or an 'inside' cable, that means one of the drives cables, or maybe some card or ram or whatever (I don't know shit about computers by the way) is loose.

But it stopped, so who gives a damn.

Then again I believe it can't be too serious since the pc worked through the beeping.

I'm sure you haven't destroyed it.

Snoopy

 

[Weird Harold]

You might have a key jammed stuck down somewhere on the keyboard.

Not likely, because if that were the case, she wouldn't be able to post.

Unfortunately, "beeping" is a very unspecific description and isn't something I can suggest a remedy for without more information.

First is the sound coming from the speakers or from the comupter case?

Is it a fast continuous sound, or is it an intermittant descrete sound. Is it regular or random? How often does it repeat?

Does the cursor show background activity when the beep sounds -- like a program trying to load or do a task?

Is it high pitched, low pitched, or somewhere in between? Is it a "pure" tone or atonal (like static)?

Does it start before windows is loaded or does it wait for some program to load during startup?

Have you tried shutting down individual tasks with Ctrl-Alt-Del?

 

[doormouse]

Not likely, because if that were the case, she wouldn't be able to post.

Unfortunately, "beeping" is a very unspecific description and isn't something I can suggest a remedy for without more information.

First is the sound coming from the speakers or from the comupter case?

Is it a fast continuous sound, or is it an intermittant descrete sound. Is it regular or random? How often does it repeat?

Does the cursor show background activity when the beep sounds -- like a program trying to load or do a task?

Is it high pitched, low pitched, or somewhere in between? Is it a "pure" tone or atonal (like static)?

Does it start before windows is loaded or does it wait for some program to load during startup?

Have you tried shutting down individual tasks with Ctrl-Alt-Del?

It was coming from the tower.

The exact sound as a reversing beeper, and same speed.

I rebooted, it kept beeping while the PC was off. Maybe it was a loose cable, but I didn't touch any to make it stop.

I only had the PC on for an hour before it started, so it wasn't hot.

 

[Weird Harold]

It was coming from the tower.

The exact sound as a reversing beeper, and same speed.

Could it have been coming from the power-strip/surge protector?

It might have been a "brown-out" warning from the power supply or from the surge protector -- i.e. a low voltage warning about the house current.

The surge-protector I bought for my daughter has a warning light for a brown-out warning -- for another $20 I could have got one with an audible warning as well.

A UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) usually has a brown-out/power loss wrning that sounds like a back-up beeper.

I suppose a similar warning feature could be built into the tower's power-supply, although I've never seen one.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

That happened to me once and it was due to some spyware or malware that was running in the background.

Get your sister's permission and download Adaware (from Lavasoft.com) and Spybot (Google on SpyBot) and run them both. They'e both free, they're quick to run, and you might be amazed at the amount of crap they'll find on your computer.

---dr.M.

P.S. Oh. Coming from the tower when you booted up?

Beats me. But run Adaware and SpyBot anyhow. It wouldn't hurt.