OT - my system is chirping at me - problem cropping up?
namffuak
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About every 35 seconds I get a muted from my system; nothing is showing in any of the windows logs, and everything looks ok. Nothing shows up in a google search either. Main board is an Asus X99E WS.
The noise level is about that of a seriously discouraged and possibly dying cricket. :-)
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Can you take the back off the case and track down the location of the noise?
(speaker, hard drive, fan, the dying cricket lodged in the fan, that extraneous shiny black box with the antenna strapped to the underside that you don't know where it came from, etc.)
It sounds like it is coming from the 'speaker' that generates the POST beeps. Much too regular and far apart to be a drive or a fan; I'm about to bite the bullet and boot into the bios and see if there's any logging there. (I have all me gear on UPSes and only power down after a power failure and usually only reboot after a power off).
Sounds like the motherboard is getting feedback in its power circuit from the caps. Does it only happen, or get worse, under heavy CPU load?
I get the same 35 second period at idle and at 100% load - even if the load runs for more than an hour.
I've got too much gear in too small a space; it looks like I need to do my backups and then selectively shut things down; I tried putting my left ear to the case and the <chirp> was louder through my right ear -- but there's nothing to the right of the system. However in a 2-foot wide space I have two tower cases and two 1100 VA ups systems.
Kind of frustrating - I retired a couple of years early because I was tired of having to diagnose wierd hardware/software issues. :-)
Internal temperture?
Bad/weak battery on one of the UPS ?? They sometimes chirp when they are not happy (depending on the manufacturer).
I think I remember that too. When the power went off at my work place and the computers were running off the UPS' they started "chirping" I guess to let you know that it was using power rather than charging or something.
7 fans in the case, not counting power supply and graphics card :-) CPU temp holds steady at 57C under load.
It isn't the low battery chirp from your smoke detector? I had a similar "WHERE IS THAT COMING FROM!!??" a year or so ago. The sound bounced off the walls just right so I could never tell quite what was doing that.
Yeah - I'm thinking the 1200VA uit is about due; I had to replace the battery in the 1100VA unit about two years ago. I need to move things around to get a better hanle on just where the heck the sound is coming from. If its the ups it may not make noise when I take the load off.
You win the gold-plated whatziz! Not an installed smoke detector - they don't have batteries; one of the replacements I picked up a while back and never got around to installing, but did try out the battery backup and alert sound. Apparently I never removed the batteries after trying it out.
LOL so it didn't even have anything to do with your computers. That's funny. :)
Sometimes you'll get a kind of 'chirp' from a hard drive when it's starting to die. When you have the box open and are really close to the drive it will be more of a clicking, but with the box closed and everything running it can change the sound a bit (click to chirp). If it is the HDD, you could have hours or weeks before it goes down.
-> Never mind.... you got it figured out. I type slow. haha
That's even funnier! I can only imagine it was buried in a pile of other things that might make noise.
I was just talking about HDD death with someone the other day, now this comment pops up! Getting a little nervous about the rule of threes here....