[hakeem5454]

everytime i restart my computer it makes a beeping sound and when i first bought my computer it didnt make that noise...
whats wrong?

[kti^]

First I would think that more info on what your system is made up of would be a great deal of help to anyone who has an idea..

Second, check your manual and/or try to pause the pre-boot screen to see if anything shows there?

This post has been edited by kti^: 29 July 2005 - 02:33 AM

[Railman5]

As Kti says more info would be good.
normally pc's boot up and give a little beep to say all is well with the pre check boot up.

Have you recently knocked your pc or something.
I could understand it the other way round????

Perhaps your PC never booted correctly in the first place

[IRON FART]

My PC always makes a beep. But that comes from the PC speaker, not the hard drive. Usually any noise coming from the hard drive should be a deep, low humming (normal) or an unpleasant grinding sound (very bad). But it won't beep.

[techniquefreak]

You should check your BIOS setup - you'll probably find a setting to make a beep when everything is checking up on boot (ram, CPU etc. ...) and if you don't want the beep you can just disable that.

Hope you find it in there somewhere.

Greets - Jacob

[ripken204]

hard drives dont beep, its called a system beep and happens to alot of people right around the oem screen in on ur startup where it shows like dell or hp

[fireware]

IRON FART, on Jul 29 2005, 05:06 AM, said:

My PC always makes a beep. But that comes from the PC speaker, not the hard drive. Usually any noise coming from the hard drive should be a deep, low humming (normal) or an unpleasant grinding sound (very bad). But it won't beep.
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MY 8GB makes an unplesant grinding noise when loading anything...

[Technoguy]

@hakeem i do think that ur drive is on its way out.well did u try testing the drive in sum other PC mite be some cable problem also

[ripken204]

Technoguy, on Jul 29 2005, 10:30 AM, said:

@hakeem i do think that ur drive is on its way out.well did u try testing the drive in sum other PC mite be some cable problem also
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no its not, its just a normal system beep! the hdd isnt even making the noise and he was jsut guessing that from the outside of the case

@fireware-i have an 8gig hdd in a 7 year old dell that makes grinding noises too but it works fine, its just a crappy hdd

[hakeem5454]

ok now that i read all that i think its a system beep because it occurs when it says SONY(my computer model) and it started happening when i tryed to add another harddrive and it didnt work so i took it out and then it started making that beep?

it didnt do that when i first bought it? so is there a way to remove it

oh and my harddrive is new because my old one crashed so this one is only like 3 months old or so

This post has been edited by hakeem5454: 29 July 2005 - 09:47 AM

[Zxian]

Have you cleared the CMOS of your BIOS? Check your manual. You'll have to move a jumper for about 5-10 seconds, or remove a battery for that time. This will clear all the settings in BIOS (including the system time), but it's usually a good first step to try out.

[chessonly]

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hard drives dont beep

and if they do what does it mean? mine makes a random piercing peeee sound.

About the system beep: as far as i know its just an indication of ram being started or something, nothing unusual.

[hakeem5454]

zxian can u be more specific? does this screw anything up if i do something wrong?

[Zxian]

@hakeem5454

No, clearing the CMOS will simply set your BIOS back to its original settings. It's actually one of the first things I do when checking for hardware errors.

You'll have to check your manual to see how to clear the CMOS on your system. If you have to remove the battery, just be careful that you don't damage any surrounding components.

[Technoguy]

@ripken i just misread his post ty for correcting me up

[dirtwarrior]

a single beep is normal but a series of beeps are not. these beeps are a diagnostic telling you weither it is a software or hardware problem. several good sites online lets you decode these beeps

[hakeem5454]

do u know of a site?

[k0pect8]

yes- Google "beep codes"

[Zxian]

k0pect8, on Jul 29 2005, 10:07 AM, said:

yes- Google "beep codes"
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Agreed

[jcarle]

Guys guys guys! You're overanalyzing and overcomplicating all of this...

@hakeem5454: When you installed the new hard drive, your BIOS recognised that the system's hardware configuration has changed and beeped to let you know that. It still keeps doing that after you took out the hard drive you added because by removing the hard drive you changed the system configuration again.

What you don't see is that because you have the giant SONY logo shown, you're not seeing the system's messages. There is a system message that will go with that beep saying that the hardware configuration has changed and to press a certain key to accept the changes.

All you have to do to stop this beeping from occuring is to go into your BIOS and accept the changes to your hardware configuration. Just going into your BIOS and exiting right away while saving changes is sufficient to accept the change in hardware.

This post has been edited by jcarle: 29 July 2005 - 02:13 PM