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What the heck would cause a MSI board to give 2 bios-type beeps ocasionally
while in Windows?

1 beep is a low tone & 1 is a high tone.

Beep-Beep!

It happens at radom.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:2823, old post ID:23122

Do you have the manual for it? There might be beep codes in it, though these usually refer to bootup beeps.

Are you sure it's not a program in windows that's doing it? Do you have a working sound card in that system? Sometimes if no sound card is present, a program will beep, instead of playing a wav file.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:2823, old post ID:23123

It's my friends PC

I help him alot with it.

We just reinstalled Windows XP PRO & now it's doing this.

I doubt it's from a program because it's random & it's emanating from the PC speaker ( the little bios-beep speaker in the PC) NOT the sound speakers.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:2823, old post ID:23124

Is there a sound card installed though? It could in fact be a program. Perhaps something like the virus scanner that's done downloading an update or one of the many XP nags poping up or doing something in the background.

Some programs will default to the PC speaker if there's no sound card, or drivers for it. Usually the default windows beep sound will be replaced by a beep in the internel speaker.

Also, when this happen is it when something pops up, or when something happends?

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:2823, old post ID:23125

It has onboard sound and nothing else happens.

No error or lockups-just beep-beep.

The normal speakers are working fine.

There is no ryme or reason to it & the PC never did this before & no new programs were installed.

I told him his board was probably failing-lol

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:2823, old post ID:23132

I get some beep with my msi mainboard when I fill too much my hard drive c:, since donloading is a pledge here

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:2823, old post ID:23133

check the ram to see if it is set in the slot or if the connection has become worn and dirty it might need a slight brush with a none static clothe and the slot might need dust blown out of it.

you could also be getting the beeps from the power supply as it might be warning of too much drain when the fan kicks on which might mean the fan is wareing out.



Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:2823, old post ID:23172

Thanks

I will check these things out.

NATHAN may be correct, as now he's getting a low disk space warning.

It's always something with his PC


Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:2823, old post ID:23186