Computer question: annoying beeping noises...

Factual Questions
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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!!

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

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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.

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I mean, handy is right. Sheesh.

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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!

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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.