My computer beeps once a day, at 2:26pm every day. Anyone know how I find out why it does this?
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Hi Dogg, sorry to say but it sounds like your computer is haunted.
The best way to find the source of the problem is by looking at where else you are seeing the number 2.26. Is it for example appearing on clocks around your home, no matter the time, or perhaps written in blood across your bathroom mirror?
Hope that's helpful.
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Originally posted by Zaki View PostYou sure it hasn't restarted itself and that's the POST beep you're hearing?
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Originally posted by Dogg Thang View PostThe hardware. It’s something inside the box.
Jokes aside, can you describe the beeps or record them for us?
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Originally posted by Zaki View PostProbably your power supply crying out for help
Jokes aside, can you describe the beeps or record them for us?
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You say it's from the hardware. Are you sure your case has an internal speaker and it's connected? Do you know of any possible hardware inside the PC that might have a speaker (like a modem or some strange legacy board)? Are you sure it's not from external speakers? If the latter is the case, then it's something from OS level upwards, rather than related to BIOS/hardware.
Have you recently updated/installed programs that might have a scheduled task (antivirus, defrag, file sync)?
You can take a look at Windows' event scheduler and the warning logs to check if the OS is recording anything.
At that time, are you usually doing some CPU or GPU-intensive task? Do you have a UPS? Is it showing any signs of over- or under- current?Last edited by briareos_kerensky; 16-06-2020, 19:23.
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I don’t know anything about the insides of this particular machine but the beep is definitely coming from inside rather than external speakers. It’s Windows 10 so unfortunately it updates all the time and I have no idea what it may have changed over the last while, although I haven’t installed anything new myself. No obvious pattern yet in what I’m doing with the machine when it happens although it’s only in the last couple of days that I figured out the beeping is actually coming from the machine (rather than something else in the room) so I’ll need to watch out for what might be triggering it. Nothing intensive anyway.
I’ll have a look for that even scheduled tomorrow in case that reveals something.
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