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I'm getting random error sounds, anyone know what could be causing it?

Asked by El_Cadejo (34610points) June 24th, 2013

As far as I can tell, nothing I’m doing is causing my computer to make the error sound. It happens pretty randomly and will beep. Sometimes it’s 4 beeps, sometimes it’s as many as 11. I’ve already checked the Event Viewer and while I do have some random error messages none of them coincide with when I’m hearing the sounds. I’ve also gone in the Device Manager to check my drivers but everything seems to be up to date and working properly. Google turned up a couple people experiencing the same issues but from all the threads I’ve read there were really no solutions. Anyone have any ideas?

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_Whitetigress's avatar

Pop Up blocks?

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El_Cadejo's avatar

@_Whitetigress Nope. It happens when I’m disconnected from the internet as well…

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jerv's avatar

Is it an actual “BEEP!” beep? If so, that sounds like a hardware issue that you won’t be able to fix from Windows. Here is a list of beep codes for some common BIOS chips just to show the sorts of issues that could cause a motherboard to beep.

If it’s Windows, doing the beeping, that is a different kettle of fish.

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El_Cadejo's avatar

It’s windows doing the beeping.

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Mr_Grimm's avatar

My computer does an error beep when I boot. I too would love to know how to turn it off. Try. Booting into safe mode. If it still does it, then its a hardware issue.

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El_Cadejo's avatar

@Mr_Grimm Like I said it’s not the actual computer beeping. My beeping is coming out of the speakers. In your case I would look up a POST error beep pattern list. From that it should be pretty simple to figure out what is wrong with yours.

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Mr_Grimm's avatar

No I get a single windows error sound. Like incompatible hardware sounds.

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El_Cadejo's avatar

I assume you’ve looked at your Device Manager already and everything is fine there? Try looking in the Even Viewer and see if anything is logged there.

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