Computer question: annoying beeping noises...

I was going to post this question on the Toshiba support desk but am hoping that a Doper might be able to help me first.

My laptop recently started making a beeping noise in the background that I can hear when the volume is at about 50% or more. It goes beep-beep-beep-beepbeepbeep and repeats. It sound like my computer is looking for a network or trying to reach a modem but I’m not connected to the internet or a phone line with that pc. It is a Toshiba laptop Portege and has Win2k as the operating system.

Is there a way to tell which program is making the noise so that I can kill it? No programs are open at the time but it just keeps going - it is super annoying.

Thanks for any ideas!!

It’s probably a CMOS bios setting to warn you that you can change. I’d look there first.

Ah, a beeping PC. The fond memories…

My PC was beeping when the CPU started to overheat. It was an alarm, warning me about the overheating. I was able to figure this out by going into the BIOS and disabling different alarms, one by one. When the beeping stopped, I knew which one was going off. (I got a special little shareware program to help with the CPU overheating - no more problems.)

Hany is right, check the BIOS.

I mean, handy is right. Sheesh.

Thanks! I’m going to check the BIOS alarms as you suggest.

Alert I’m not exactly a computer expert and I’m not exactly sure where to find the BIOS alarms. Is it in the control panel or do I need to do something funky when I turn on the PC to get into that mode?

Happy New Millenium!

Call Toshiba and have them walk you through it… if you’ve never been in your bios before don’t chance it, not a good place to just experiment in. Plus they will have a diagnostic chart they can compair the beep rate too and find out whats going on.