Comp help I'm buggin!

For some random ass reason when I started listening to music tonight, I had for the first time ever a random beeping/siren sound (two tones, beeee booo, ya know like a siren) coming through speakers or headphones (plugged in through speakers volume adjuster box).

I'm pretty damn competent when it comes to comps normally, but this seems a little bizzare. it IS related to volume (even windows volume, so it has to be software). It is NOT any kind of warning for overheating as I always have a temp program running (built the comp, oc'ed and watercooled). It begins on windows startup, as its loading. It doesnt seem like any programs are loaded at that point so I dunno if its any, i tried killing a few suspect process's with no luck. My next guess is sound card drivers (its integrated into the mobo), but the actual music and sounds besides the beeps sounds clean. What do you guys think?

i would say update your drivers forsure. maybe your out of useable space on your hard drive? maybe you should check it. defrag it etc. if worse comes to worse reload your operating system. good luck

a siren out of ur speakers? what speakers u got? i have creative ones, there decent but old. every now and then i get crackling if i adjust the volume. maybe its something like that, actually ur speakers have blown or something. id say try and use headphones or ask ur friend to borrow his speakers for 15mins and just check that out as well.

I think it is either the sound card drivers or the sound card. I had one puke that was on the mother board and had to go into the cmos and disable the on board card and added a new sound card - problem solved.

well I installed new sound card drivers last night with no luck, its so wierd how this came on all of a sudden. The sound card is integrated into the mobo (Abit IC7-MAX3), and the actual audio still sounds crisp and clean. Its not really a siren, not like a whine, but high pitch then low, then high then low repeating over and over.

Try replacing your sound card.
Turn off the built in sound and put in a cheap sound card.
Other than that I am at a loss.

try doing a defrag.

aaaand the sound is gone. I didnt do anything between last night and today, now the sound is gone. I tried multiple restarts last night and it came back each time. Thats kinda creepy.

Restart, and keep pressing f8 as soon as you switch it back on. There should be a boot options thing that comes up, try last known good configuration.

Lipples said:

aaaand the sound is gone. I didnt do anything between last night and today, now the sound is gone. I tried multiple restarts last night and it came back each time. Thats kinda creepy.

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Lipples said:

well I installed new sound card drivers last night with no luck, its so wierd how this came on all of a sudden. The sound card is integrated into the mobo (Abit IC7-MAX3), and the actual audio still sounds crisp and clean. Its not really a siren, not like a whine, but high pitch then low, then high then low repeating over and over.

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Would you call it a tone, or series of tones? And it only happens on start-up? Do you have any slots left to simply add a sound card and disable the mobo card? I've never used a mobo that had the card built in, though I've taken machines apart that did. They were all Gateways and they were old (and sucky).

Too bad you don't have a dual-boot machine going there, otherwise you could boot up into the alternate OS (I use Ubuntu, but that's as my main and Win2K is my alternate) and see if the card's being problematic there. Now.... hhhmm.. I wonder if you burned a LiveCD and booted off of that if you'd get that sound/tone series you're hearing. You could try that, at least for shits & giggles. Might lead you somewhere.

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Restart, and keep pressing f8 as soon as you switch it back on. There should be a boot options thing that comes up, try last known good configuration.

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I'm sorry I was way to vague with my last post. the BAD sound disappeared before I wrote that last post, but my audio was still there. I am really stumped as to WTF it was, but it was there for a day, then it was gone.

This vid is a good example of the sound...but of course mine didnt sound like a horn...and it wasn't coming out of a police vehicle...and I'm not in France, but other then that exactly like it!

YouTube - Sirens in France

Thanks for the help tho

you can fix any PC with a baseball bat

Windows sucks, I agree. The only reason I'm stuck with it is I'm a gamer, and BTW PC = Personal Computer so when you say that your pretty much sayin fuck Windows, Macs, and Linux machines. Most have similar internals anyways.

Im not saying fuck anything...i love my PC and i use XP.

oh, well then I completely agree

Most time's when I hear a comment like that it comes from a mac fanboy. I don't care what OS I use if it gets the job done.

Lipples said:

oh, well then I completely agree

Most time's when I hear a comment like that it comes from a mac fanboy. I don't care what OS I use if it gets the job done.

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a macfan boy lol...i do prefer windows...as ive never owned a mac lol

...its back as of tonight. Le sigh. I'm going to restart like 10 times.