Beeping when playing network games

DaveRMSM

DaveRMSM

DaveRMSM

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Hi, so my computer beeps when playing network games - a lot! If I play a game by myself it's fine and never beeps.
However as soon as I play a LAN game, it just starts beeping immediately. Worst is Civilisation VI, doing long constant beeps!

The system is:
Gigabyte Z790
i7-12700k
32GB Vulcan Z T-Force
Crucial P310 1TB SSD M.2
ASUS GeForce RTX 3060 12G
Windows 11 Pro 24H2

I've been into the BIOS a few times, but can't see anywhere where I can disable warnings or beeps. CPU is not getting hot, it's 28-40'C max all the time
I downloaded Gigabyte control centre, and turned off all the warnings (at least I think that's what the exclamation marks do, it has b#gger all guidance.)

Cheers
Dave
 
Thanks, do you mean GeForce Experience? Yes that is installed and latest drivers made no difference.
It's over ethernet.
 
Thanks for the help, I'll give that a go and double check where exactly the sound is from.

I do have a UPS, but it didn't do this on the old PC so I think it's not that, but I'll double check...
 
Ha! It's coming from the UPS, not the PC.

I wonder if it's an overload or the PSU is not great in the PC. The PSU is a few years old, it's the one thing I didn't upgrade.
 
Mystery solved! I had both PCs plugged into the same UPS. The beep and orange light on an APC UPS means it's being overloaded. That explains why it only happens on network games, when both PCs are drawing a lot of power. Now PC 2 is plugged into a different socket so everything runs nicely with no neeps. Thanks again for your help, mentioning the UPS solved it for me.
 
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