Could this be a sign that my computer has been hacked?

engstrom0304

engstrom0304

engstrom0304

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Hey guys,

My computer (windows 7) has been messing up a bit recently. I found this evening that it said it was connected to both my wifi networks at once! And also it was suddenly failing to buffer youtube very well even at 144p! At that moment it randomly beeped 10 times (short beeps) but they came from the speakers not the motherboard.

What would you guys do in this situation? Full windows reinstall? I have no virus protection apart from windows defender.

Edit: as it is a laptop the beeps from the motherboard may be routed to the speakers. So it could be a fan speed issue or something?
 
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check your motherboard guide and find out what 10 beeps on start up means, I would imagine it is temp/fan related.
 
short beeps usually means RAM or similar is playing up.

Being on both wifi networks (or two cards on one network) shouldn't cause that big an issue, if any. Suggest the beeping is the real problem. Run memtest to check initially.

If you had been hacked you either wouldn't know about it from looking at your pc or you'd have had a call from the CC company by now.
 
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