Computer makes sounds

Hi,

What kinds of sounds?

Lots of things cause your PC to beep and carry on when you're not necessarily using it. Mail arriving is a good example...

Cheers,
Tim.

If you have a sound scheme installed that sets all of the system event sounds to on, you will get sounds allmost continuously.

Windows opens and closes a lot of processes in the background. When you have a sound enabled for some system events, you will hear the sound at what seams to be the oddest times.

This is "normal"? for Windows, and is not a sign of impending doom.

Go to settings, control panel, sounds, and select either none, or a simpler sound scheme.
You can also disable select sound events.

Whenever you change desktop themes, the sound scheme changes also.

Chas

You don't specify what kind of sounds you are talking about. Do they come from your speakers? If they are machine sounds from inside the box it might be that you have one or more thermally controlled fans that come on or change speed as the temp inside the case changes. Does the hard drive light come on when you here these sounds? You may have events scheduled in software i.e. defrag, virus scan, check email, etc..

Couple other possible "sounds" - wires getting in the way of fans inside your case, or the bearings in the fan are going (the fan's loose and rattling around). The hard drive could also either be working or going bad, depending on the sound. Another possible is the processor getting hot - many new boards will sound an alarm of some sort through a speaker when this is happening.

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