Dragonball Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Numpty mode I'm afraid (normal I know) I have an oldish Advent 3110 desktop machine Recently it has taken to emitting a very high pitched two tone alarm. This is continuous and will only stop when machine turned off Is this associated with internal over heating - seems not to happen when I take off the outer casing? Wondered if there is any failsafe / battery alarn that I dont know about Is it time to take it along and get new fan etc Help appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 It's generally the motherboard telling you "something" isn't happy. MSI 6373 motherboard in that one I think, is there any pattern to the noise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 If that is the right motherboard there is a manual for it here: http://us1.msi.com.tw/files/downloads/mnu_exe/E6373v1.1.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 It's probably overheating Paul. See if the HSF or PSU are clogged with dust. You may well find that blowing all the dust out works wonders. (heatsink and fan, power supply) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henk Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 - definitely that My old Media Centre was doing it and cleaning the dust out of the heatsinks sorts it out. Otherwise.... well we'll deal with that if needed..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Geneb Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 two tone sound like nee-nar nee-nar means the police are coming:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonball Posted May 29, 2007 Author Share Posted May 29, 2007 Thanks for that guys - time for a good blow (never a bad time etc ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Yeah, I got a failer recent HP desktop set up as my download PC. it was starting to sound like a plane taking off whenever anything was being run on it, took the CPU Heatsink of and it was jammed full of dust. Quick clean and runs silent again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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