System Alarm

Can someone please help?
My system seems to giving off an alarm, this sound is not coming from the speakers but from within the desktop itself.
When the alarm goes off I can do nothing but reset the system.
Can someone please give some insight to this problem.


thanks

 

There is probably an option in the BIOS that sets off an alarm when either the system temperature or CPU temp gets too high, or it's a fan alarm telling you that a fan has quit or is spinning VERY slowly. I would investigate this ASAP as something may be seriously wrong.
If you have another PC, shut down the one making the alarm sound and use the other one until you get this figured out. If you could post the make/model of the motherboard or PC it might help us help you....

 

if you boot into your bios, you should be able to see the temps. they might be low as your comp is idle? anyway, you can use everest (left side menu --> computer --> sensor) to show the temps (sometimes it'll show fan speeds (depends on your setup). i also linked hwmonitor below as well. g/l, sos

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html <-- EVEREST Free Edition 2.20

http://www.majorgeeks.com/HWMonitor_d5842.html <-- HWMonitor 1.0.8

as mentioned by dlb. it's alerting you to a problem. you might want to pop open the case and check the fans.

 

Vaio- PCV- RX572(UC) 2803030
1.80 Intel Pentium 4
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P4B-LX REV 1.xx
BUS CLOCK: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. (6a69va05) asus p4b-lx
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)

 

Is this alarm starting out making a constant buzz or is like several buzzes. with breaks in it

 

As suggested - on startup press del, or f2, usually to get into the bios. then look for system health, and you will see your temperatures - p4's often run a little hot, so if its 45- to 55C, --o.k - if its higher, you might need to have a clean up for dust, and fluff, if fans are working- Come back if you need more advice - as you can see lots of help about.
You can adjust warning temperature in the bios, but let us know temperatures before touching that.

 

The alarm has breaks in them

 

Here are mine Temps.

 

This is from HWMonitor:
Temps:
TMPINO: VALVE MIN MAX
-47 C(-54F) -47C (-54F) -47C (-54F)
TMPINI 47C(114F) 46C (114F) 51C (122F)
TMPINZ 39C (102F) 1C (32F) 39C (102F)

ST360020A
TEMP
HDD 37C (98F) 37C (98F) 37C (98F)

 

Some information here on the temperature, and voltage min, and max for the Williamette, plus loads more, if you are interested

http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm


P4-1.8G - socket 478- Williamette
(256KB) 1.75V max temp -- 77° C

I think that you might need to do a clean, really, but as you see, you have a little leaway, it might be worth trying upping the temperature alarm to 60C, and if the alarm stays off, I would get myself an aerosol from the local pc shop, and blow out around the cpu heatsink fins- Make sure that you do that when the machine is cold- anddo not restart it for 10 to 15 minutes, with the side off, so as to ensure the cold air has not left any moisture inside the pc- If you are unsure, or, need more explanation, ask again before going inside your pc.
We offer our help, but the responsibility is yours, once you go inside the pc.

 

Bumping the temp alarm should work, incase it doesn't, the breaks in the alarm, sometimes indicates, post warning. Post errors can be receive before the monitor is able to fire up and show you.
The number of beeps it makes at start-up could very well indicate a post error number. If you can count them before it either stops or stays steady, might help. Sometimes they will beep, then pause, then beep and pause over several times.
Below are some errors related to # of beeps:

1xx - System board
2xx - Ram/Rom
3xx - Keyboard
4xx >>>
5xx >>>>Video
24xx >>
6xx - Floppy
17xx - hard drive

These are just a few of the most common errors, a plug or connector inside the case might have worked itself loose to cause this, wouldn't hurt to make sure everything is plugged in tight

 

I had already cleaned the inside of the case and the fans; so I went back and unpluged every and then pluged all back and it seems that every thing is working fine have not had an alarm since then.
thanks for the help.

 

Surprising how many times just checking the leads can solve an issue.This can happen , and often does, when putting in extra ram, or, a video card - even if you spring cleaned before it happened, or, moved the computer.
Now you have spring cleaned, too, always a good thing .
My pet saying.........
Sometimes the obvious eludes us.

 

My problem went away for a couple days and now the problem is back but this time I have a error message.

During the last boot up your system jung for improper frequency combination. System now is in Safe Mode. To optimize performance and reliability make sour the freqency combination conforms to specification of CPU DIMM and other connected devices.

I have set all to the defalut setting but the alarms kept coming.

any thoughts.

 

Using Everest, you can see recommended settings for your ram, if you go into bios and if you have the facilty on your motherboard to change the cas, latency etc: to that recommended in Everest, then, see if that stops it - It 's possible that you have a faulty stick of ram, or, faulty/incompatable stick(s), if they ran alright previously.
As it says 'cpu/dimm connected devices, if your motherboard is running at 100mhz fsb(dual, or quadpumped to 400, or, 800mhz, then your ram should be to manufacturers recommendation -you did not show a graphics card, so I assume you are using on-board.
I had a look at Asus site to see if it's a known problem, but not a lot of luck, there.However they have their troubleshooting, and this one at least tells you which lights might give a clue.
The second one, is Asus advice on doing a thorough check.

http://support.asus.com/troubleshooting/troubleshooting.aspx?no=762&SLanguage=en-us

http://support.asus.com/troubleshooting/troubleshooting.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&product=1
Their motherboard trouble shooter