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by mrtapp1 Jan 9, 2004 last reply Jan 29, 2004

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I have a PC that has a few years on it, and after it's on for about 10 to 15 min, it makes this alarm kind of sound. I thought it might be that it's over heating, but the cpu fan is still working.

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by rcom Jan 9, 2004

Could be the CPU fan isn't spinning fast enough. If the systems is that old its probably a good time to go ahead and replace fans, spinning or not.

by dmiles Jan 9, 2004

Do a general cleanup,by using compressed air and cleaning the fan to cpu and the power supply
Try recreateing the problem after blowing out dust and pay attention to where the sound is coming from,monitor the heating of cpu after being on for a while

by pittman_jeff Jan 9, 2004

What's you MoBO / BIOS? Posible sign of overheating. If that is the case, the #1 reason I see all the time is the fan in the power supply. Which requires a new power supply then.

by desktopgeek Jan 9, 2004

I had one of these about 5yrs ago and there were 3 different temp settings in the bios, I changed it to the highest temp and never had the problem again. The default is the lowest and after about 10-15 minutes the PC speaker would start beeping at me...