This has never really happened to me before, but what does it mean when your computer starts making a beeping sound, like the CS:S bomb?

It was a few nights a go, and it just strted beeping all of a sudden, I wasn't playing any games and I swear the beeping came from inside the case. I also checked the airflow at the back and it seemed to be cool enough, and I also clean the inside of dust regularly. I put it in stanby and it stopped beeping, and when I started it up again a few hours later it stayed beep clear.

I don't know if this is related but once or twice now I've started my computer and it doesn't load up, it just pauses as in when you leave a floppy disk in the machine and start it, except nothing was in the drives. So a restart later and Windows loads up.

Any ideas if this could be a start of a serious problem?

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motherboard must be beeping

what is the motherboard?
what kind of rythm / how many beeps in the rythm

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My money is on processor temp

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yer open up your case and see if the fan on the heatsink is spinning

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Wow, first time I opened up my pc while it was on, wish I had a transparent cover, could have a disco to my psu.

Anyway I have an Asus A7V400-MX motherboard.

The beeps, though I'm not 100% certain being a few days a go, just simply beeped every 1 - 2 seconds, no rythm, just straight forward one after the other beeping.

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single beep?
low or high tone?

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http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm

i reckon its cpu for whatever reason

fan spinning, put your finger on the heatsink and feel how hot it is
properly seated?

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Ah forgot to mention, yep all the fans are running.

I think it was a low toned beep, a single beep every 1 - 2 seconds untill I put the computer on stanby.

I can't touch the heatsink at the moment though, it's hard to properly earth myself where the computer is at the moment.

But the beeping only happened once since I've had this motherboard for 2 years now, and hasn't happened since. So I guess it could of been a temporary heat problem on a particularly hot night, as inside the case and the airflow from fans feels quite cool.

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you sure its nothing silly like a key held down on the keyboard by accident

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The Road!

or maybe it's his watch

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CPU heatsinks tend to trap dust and feathers over time causing them to overheat the cpu. The air passing over a blocked heatsink would feel cool as it wouldn't have an opportunity to gather heat fom the cpu. The heatsink itself would fell abnormally warm though. Another posibility is the heat sink compound drying out, this can lead to bad thermal transfer fom the cpu to the heat sink. I this case the heatsink may even feel cold. Both are typical scenarios frm pcs that don't get opened and tweaked a lot. Such as in offices. I'd be tempted to remove the heatsink and its fan, clean it out, reapply some quality compound and reseat it. Even if this doesn't help the imediate problem, it will give peace of mind and a heightened sense of pc awareness.

In the old days there were cases of pcs with zinc plated (*possibly tin actually or something else) ram sockets and gold ram pins, these disimilar set up a chemical reaction causing them to become electrically isolated. Oxides maybe can't remember? Reseating regulary helps this. Though I don't think zinc ram sockets have been used for about 8 years though. Doubt you pc is that old Mr Wolf.

Have fun and take care or yourselves, and each other.

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Don't worry Sony, I'll just cancel my date of birth and get a new one.