Worrying warning tone?

UKBananas · 24 Mar 2007 at 14:04

After I've been playing something intense (Vanguard, Supreme Commander) I sometimes get this sounds coming from the desktop, sounds like it's coming from the back. It's quite loud and lasts less than a second. Like some kind of warning tone.

My thoughts are it's either the PSU (I have an Enermax 850) or it's the BFG 8800GTX.

The 8800 get's to around 70 degrees c at full load, do you think this is the problem?

Speedfan tells me my CPU doesn't get over 49 degrees under load.

This warning happened before I started overclocking.

I have:

evga 680i
e6600 clocked to over 3GHz.
Corsair 2GB 8500

Let me know what you think! When it happens I tend to alt tab to minimise the game to let stuff cool down just in case!

Thanks!

UKB

masslac · 24 Mar 2007 at 14:05

Look in the mobo manual for BIOS beep codes.

UKBananas · 24 Mar 2007 at 15:01

I can't find anything in the manual about beep codes:

http://www.evga.com/support/manuals/122-CK-NF68.pdf

Thanks for the reply though

UKB

UKBananas · 25 Mar 2007 at 12:10

It's actually two beeps quite close to each other. Can't work out what is could be

UKB

Drazic · 25 Mar 2007 at 12:14

Can you record it!

Do you use a sound card on the onbord stuff on the mobo?

UKBananas · 30 Mar 2007 at 09:34

I use a sound card but at the moment I only have headphones plugged in. The sound does not come through the headphones, it sounds like it's coming from the back of the PC.

Thanks for any help!

UKB

UKBananas · 30 Mar 2007 at 09:42

Update: sometimes it's a single beep, sometimes it a beep followed closely by another. Vanguard seems the worst offender, which is a really graphically intensive game,

UKB.

Arcane · 30 Mar 2007 at 09:49

Your 8800gtx is fine up to 115 according to Nvidia, 70's absolutely fine. I had pretty much an identical setup to you and I was getting warning beeps, in my case it was the Galaxy PSU. If you do a search there's a thread on OCUK about the galaxy doing it, sorry to be non-specific but it was a while ago.

. For some people it was when certain cables were plugged into certain sockets...for me, however, it was the fan fail warning, (3 beeps). Coolermaster RMAed it very quickly when I contacted them and the replacement was perfect. Hope this helps.