pc problems need help ( beeeep,BEEEP ) "fixed"

[daywane]

every thing is working fine
gateway
1.8 CPU
256 meg ram
had a not so legal xp pro on it
I found the original restore disks so I put the correct XP home on it
Updated all the drivers and service PAC 2
now ever 5 or 10 min. I hear a low pitch beep and a higher pitch beep
maybe like 5 seconds each

CPU fan going?
memory checks out, OK
I removed all cards, AGP and PCI
reseated memory cards
reseated the CPU fan
no luck still beeps. 

never did this till I put xp home on it.
PC belonged to MY sister. (bought from gateway new)
after a few years she got a nasty virus.
She got fed up with it and gave it to me.
I formated it and stuck in XP Pro SP2
never had it on the internet.
The other day I thought I would give this PC a try on the web.
She had the restore disks.
( she said they did not work)
I had no problems at all with them
I went to my father in laws house (high speed internet there)
did like 2 hours of updating
and seems great but now the stupid beeps.

[Loki]

And you get what... beeping and all black screen?
Does it stop somewhere?

You can often find the meaning of the beeps in the mainboard manual and maybe on internet.

[daywane]

no problems with pc
as beeps come and go there is no noticable effect.
dvd copies
game play
as I type to you a set of beeps
the PC shows no problems

[Loki]

Ah, so it's a windows thing... didn't read right, I'm a bit tired

I found some topic that sounds like a similar problem
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/523530-windows-xp-beeping.html
I hope you can find something useful in it.

btw, does it come out of your normal pc speakers or the little one inside your pc.

[daywane]

internal speaker

I will check out your link

on google all I can find is a boot problem
I do not have anything like that.
starting to think a bad driver
I did change modems after installing gateways aps (fax and what not)
also I changed keyboards.

[jace055]

1)  Check the power management settings in windows and in bios to make sure you don't have it set to laptop or something.  I think this is more of a bios problem because windows notification would come out of the sound card. 

Boot into windows and play a game for a few minutes to get the processor temp up the exit out of the game and reboot into BIOS and check your processor temps.  What motherboard/gateway model number are you running?

2)  Unplug the internal speaker.  That will fix it for sure. 

[daywane]

I removed the old modem crap
and the keyboard crap still waiting for a beep
I am starting to think problem has been solved.

to be honest I never knew of windows beeps. I thought all beeps were the bios telling me somthing is bad wrong.
first time I have run into a windows beep

[kelemvor]

Could always just reformat and try again and see if it comes back...

[_) (V) (-)]

If all else is working fine, I'd unplug the speaker.
If it's one of them little surface mount jobs, then put a piece of tape over the hole.

I'd bet it's a keyboard or other input buffer error. Maybe you control interface is triggering it?

[SirPeale]

I betcha it's the stickykeys things going on.

If you hit the control or shift keys five times in a row, it turns this feature on.  I think it makes this sound.

[Chaos]

This may sound stupid but on my Dell server box I had the covers off and it would beep. I don't run covers on any other box but this one gave me fits.

[steveh]

could it be a stuck key on a keyboard.  or a motherboard problem.  theres not too much windows would send threw the system speaker.

[leapinlew]

My gateway beeped all the time. I put in a different computer.

It seemed to beep when multiple things were going on. I turned off all the accessibility stuff. I was using an IPAC on the PS2 port.

[daywane]

I betcha it's the stickykeys things going on.

If you hit the control or shift keys five times in a row, it turns this feature on.  I think it makes this sound.

it was eather this or the driver for the cey bprd I am no longer working with.

eather way problem is gone. Thanks

[NickG]

it was eather this or the driver for the cey bprd I am no longer working with.

eather way problem is gone. Thanks

  Looks like you are having a problem typing without it...J/K

[Havok]

I betcha it's the stickykeys things going on.

If you hit the control or shift keys five times in a row, it turns this feature on.  I think it makes this sound.

it was eather this or the driver for the cey bprd I am no longer working with.

eather way problem is gone. Thanks

Daywane - stop drinking before typing: you are supposed to do that after!