Computer Question?

[Bobgorilla]

My desktop computer has started beeping kind of like a bomb any ideas (other than bomb) of what the problem might be?

[mikeschn]

Did you download a virus that turned your computer into a bomb?

The wife said yesterday that she pulled a battery out of a computer because the battery had a virus.





What she meant to say was she was killing power to the bios because the virus might have been there!

Mike...

[Bobgorilla]

Did you download a virus that turned your computer into a bomb?

The wife said yesterday that she pulled a battery out of a computer because the battery had a virus.





What she meant to say was she was killing power to the bios because the virus might have been there!

Mike...

That would be one heck of a virus and although there are people who don't particularly like me I don't think anybody would to that much trouble to get to me.

[mikeschn]

It was not our computer!

Mike...

[mikeschn]

Does your problem sound anything like this?

I have several identical NEC Powermate SL computers.
Windows 98se NEC Powermate Slim 600mhz Celeron, etc. They are about 5
years old now.

One of them started beeping from the internal speaker almost a week
ago. It boots Windows fine, and no sign of any problems with it other
than the beeping, which can be as often as more than once per minute
or less frequent.

This computer boots just as fast as the others. Anti-virus is up to
date and didn't find anything. No spyware found either.

Generally a beeping noise like this I assume is BIOS indicating some
type of hardware failure, but i've yet to pin point it.

The floppy drive does not work, and I wondered if it could be this. I
disabled it in BIOS, and removed the ribbon cable from the motherboard
& removed it from Device Manager. Oddly, the floppy controller keeps
getting re-installed. The A: drive shows up no matter what I do to
get rid of it, and says "Removable" next to it. No idea if this has
anything to do with the beeping. The computer has still been getting
used, and the data is backed up.

I ordered another power supply in case it has anything to do with
that. If not i'll probably need a spare in the future for another
machine. I opened the machine last week, and it was very dusty. It
was last cleaned less than a year ago, but is dusty environment.

I cleaned the machine out good, including the power supply & CPU fans,
and verified they both spin normal.

The computer does not feel warm to touch.

I'm wondering about maybe the ram going, but no indications of it as
all programs work fine. The gold contacts were very clean.

If it were a hard drive problem, it seems like i'd see other signs.

CMOS battery has never been changed, but I can't picture it causing
beeping while running Windows.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

the suggestions for fixes are here...

http://www.wirelessforums.org/alt-comp- ... -7125.html

[Bobgorilla]

It stopped should I run or is it too lat

[mikeschn]

RUN... NOW... FAST!!!!



Mike...

[Bobgorilla]

Think maybe I know what was beeping. I've been having problems with my video card, a radeon 9250. It changes settings by itself and occasionally just stops working for a few seconds. It may be time for a new one (this ones only 6 months old but it is older tech)

[Mike C.]

I'm reminded of what I saw on the back of the bomb squad guys t-shirt.


" If you see me running, try to keep up!!!! "