p@ul

As title says when i download something or burn something or just lately watch a movie after a while an alarm starts going off inside my tower and its driving me nuts!!!
If i restart it goes away?
It mainly does it when im burning something to disc?
Any ideas guys before i torch it lol

Markus

Any warnings popping up in Windows? Stupid question but what does it sound like? similar kind of beep you hear when you power the machine on, or different.

The only guess I have is perhaps it's the motherboard's speaker beeping at you because the machine is overheating, which would make some sense as burning would consume a lot of processor power, as could watching movie.

If you have an Intel processor you could download this which would tell you fan speed and temp.

p@ul

Its a proper alarm type beap m8
Overheating is my theory too so will check with the side off to make sure fans are working properly,cheers bud

p@ul

Right ive done what i know causes the alarm to come on and when it did i opened the tower up to have a looksee
I noticed a little fan on the motherboard with a 1 bit sign on it wasnt spinning at all? the rest were so i switched off and fiddled about with it and cleaned it up,now when i switch on its spinning
hope this has solved it and thanks for great advice bud
Will keep my eye on it and probably replace it anyway cheers
P.s also noticed i have rear fan on mine so my bro is bringing me another to put at the front also as you cant have to many i say lol