Internal Speaker Noise

Hi

Perhaps somebody here can inform me of the probable cause of a computer incident I encoutered today. When I rebooted my computer, its internal speaker began emitting a bell-like, and non-stop, bee-bop-bee-bop a sound an ambulance might make when rushing to an emergency call. It wasn't quite a ding-dong-ding-dong but I think you'll get the idea.

The two-note sound was not unlike that an ambulance makes while rushing to an emergency.

Anyway, I had to shut down the computer to get the sound to stop. When I powered back on and the system booted up, there was no recurrence. I've not had this before nor has it repeated itself. Aside from this single incident, the system seems to be OK.

My computer is a custom built Intel Pentium III, 800 MHz.

I'm wondering if this was some sort of early warning of trouble brewing or simply a one time quirk.

Thanks.

 

I had the same thing happen back when I was running 98se.

It turned out to be a corrupt sound file associated with starting windows.

I removed the association in Control Panel. Problem went away.

It sometimes would cause windows to freeze as soon as the sound came on.

 

Bmoore1129...

Had the same (workstation freezing) problem on a Dell running Win2k SP2...it took couple hours to figure out why the box hung as windows was loading (Windows loading should have given me the answer...doooh!). Anyways removed the sound bite and "Bob's your Uncle "...

Contacted Dell on this but never heard a reply back...

Laters,

 

BMoor1129 and dobhar,

Thanks for responding. I hear you but there's just one small problem . I cannot find any specific sound activated for bootup when I check the Control Panel sound settings.

So far, it's not happened again. I'm hoping it was only a corrupt file and not a warning of some hardware problem.