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Thread ID: 76011 2007-01-17 20:58:00 Low pitch BEEP at Welcome Screen bk T (215) Press F1
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516928 2007-01-17 20:58:00 Good morning, I did a clean install of Win XP in this Machine and everything went fine as expected other than:

At Windows XP Welcome Screen, if I don't log in to any of my 3 user accounts for about 3 minutes or so, a low pitch beep (much lower pitch than the usual boot up beep when turning on the computer) will sound even with speakers off. Never experienced this before. No new or unknown software was loaded, just those old familiar programmes and hardware drivers. Nothing new to this computer.

Any idea what's happening?
bk T (215)
516929 2007-01-17 21:09:00 Is that a continuous beep, or just a single beep? Have you tried taking the side panel off to identify where the sound comes from? SolMiester (139)
516930 2007-01-17 21:35:00 Is that a continuous beep, or just a single beep? Have you tried taking the side panel off to identify where the sound comes from?
Just a single beep, very low pitch. No. haven't tried to remove the side panel to trail the beep source. it must be from the little speaker - there isn't any other component that can make beeps, is there?
bk T (215)
516931 2007-01-17 21:59:00 i believe your sound drivers will not be installed - if there are no drivers assigned to your sound card - windows will use that beep as a substitute - go into device manager and see if a yellow question mark is next to "multimedia audio controller" or something - if it does you have no drivers installed for it causing the beeping MAC_H8ER (5897)
516932 2007-01-17 22:19:00 i believe your sound drivers will not be installed - if there are no drivers assigned to your sound card - windows will use that beep as a substitute - go into device manager and see if a yellow question mark is next to "multimedia audio controller" or something - if it does you have no drivers installed for it causing the beeping

No. My soundcard is fine, driver installed OK. It's playing all sound and music perfectly.
bk T (215)
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