About half the time I shut down from Windows Vista, my machine does not complete shut down and instead starts to emit Beeps (Bu-leep Bu-Leep Bu-Leep noises) from somewhere on the mother board or graphics card. The Sound does NOT appear to come from the Speaker (as I have Soundblaster Speakers plugged in and even when turned off, the beep continues). It does not come from the inbuilt speaker (as best as I can tell). I have the side panels removed from the PC so can localise the beep to mid-PC (nowhere near speaker).
This only occurs on shutdown, and not all the time. I do not use hibernate, low power mode etc. This is when you select manually the “Shut Down” option.
I have a desktop PC configured as follows:
– Intel Motherboard D845WN
– G Radeon 7500 Ver A Graphics Accelarator Card
– Creative Audigy 2 Soundblaster Card
– Network / LAN card
– Internal Modem card
– 2 Western Digital WD800 Hard Drives (100Gb Approx each)
– Microsoft Vista Business 6.0.6000 Build 6000 Original (not copy)
– Pentium 4 2.4Ghz 2393 Mhz 1 Core 1 Logical Processor
– BIOS Version: Intel Corp HV84510A.86A.0038.P10.0204151346 15/4/2002 (APRIL 2002)
– SM Bios 2.3
– Physical Memory 510MB
– Virtual Memory 1.5GB
– Page File Space 1GB
Two users have the machine, so there are two user logons arranged.
Vista is newly installed 3 weeks ago, and after a number of teething troubles with registration, validation, drivers, etc seems otherwise to be working fine. It just will not completely shut down.
What happens:
1) Select Vista option “Shut Down”
2) Windows presents the shut down screen
3) PC fails last step of shutting turning off (i.e it just hangs at that point with the windows screen showing “windows is shutting down”
5) PC begins to beep endlessly – steady double tone, constant rythym : buh-leeeep buh-leeeep buh-leeeep etc.
6) You are forced to press reset (5 secs) and then off switch to make it turn off
7) at next turn on – windows registers normal start with no problems at all
8) This happens over and over again.
Does anyone else have this problem, or a potential solution?
Thanks
David
