[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Sandwich


Usually I run across them at work, you know the kind... the boss says to go to this site, see if what they offer businesses/websites is something we can use, and if so, implement it. The site then turns out to be a horrid maze of nested tables, font tags, and other assorted IE-friendly paraphenalia.

Bear in mind, tho, that you need to nest HTML tags - otherwise it's not standards compliant (HTML4.1 is an XML subset, so you need to correct markup syntax to create a DOM tree) - technically, the browser shouln't display anything that doesn't use solely nested tags.... but seeing as it's not yet standardized (next standard forces browsers to reject non-well formd markup, i think), mosdt browsers rdiosplay dodgy html (etc) rather than look broken.

Oh, and the siren is possibly(as has been suggested) a heat warning from the motherboard.... I get it a fair bit, natch*  I'd suggest checking the BIOS settings, seeing if there is a heat alarm setup - it could be an overall hear thing - maybe your old video card was running hot.

Or, as has just occured to me, it could be a PSU problem - I had that a few months back, my old PSU was fluctating wildly in (I think the +5 -5v range or thereabout) voltage for certain levels, which left me Pc none-too-chuffed.  

*actually, I only get it when I have 2 CD drives installed in me machine, cos the ventialaitons fecked then.... for a while I only had a CD-R, and the temperature never went above 60 deg - but I added a DVD-RW recently, which has taken it baken in squealy-squeal territory.

[JarC]

Originally posted by Stealth
no it's definately not my computer overheating, because the displays show it's running just over 100 degrees farenheit.

next time it goes on i'll record it...

forget the sound, if no one knows what you mean, they've never heard it...if it aint the mobo, than it is either the GPU running to hot, causing the mobo to overheat too, or what Aldo said, your PSU can't keep up anymore...because the siren is the mobo's overheat alarm...

[Stealth]

oh. ok. thanks

no wait.  i've got 6 case fans though... case temperature never goes above 70 degrees farenheit.  how could it be my motherboad overheating?


is there any way i could find the clip of that sound, so i could see if it's the sound my computer's making?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Stealth
oh. ok. thanks

no wait.  i've got 6 case fans though... case temperature never goes above 70 degrees farenheit.  how could it be my motherboad overheating?


is there any way i could find the clip of that sound, so i could see if it's the sound my computer's making?

Well, depends what your alaram threshold is set at...mine is 70, so I get warnings at that temp.  Have you checked your PSU voltages, though?  Should be able to in the BIOS.

[StratComm]

70 farenheit is room temperature though, if not a little cooler.  But while the case may not get hot as a whole, the elements on the mobo could be getting too hot locally, though if that's the case it's probably indicative of another problem.

[Stealth]

Strattcomm and aldo:

Yes, my computer is more-or less room temperature.  we keep the house at 69 degrees at this time of year (give or take a degree or two).  i also have my room roof fan on constantly, so my entire room is the house temperature.  the front of my case is at the front of my desk, and i have three fans sucking in at the bottom of the case, and then at the top (by the power supply fan) i have three fans blowing out, so there's a constant circulation of air.

voltages look about normal too.



looking good
Since my format yesterday, it hasn't happened yet, and i don't think it will, but i'm still interested to see exactly what caused it in the first place.  and i haven't heard of motherboard parts overheating too often, other than the CPU and chipset of course.  the internal temperature would have to be well over 100 degrees farenheit for it to overheat, wouldn't it?

[aldo_14]

Well, i can only speak from personal experience in terms of what causes mad bleepy noises.  I think I got mixed up with your temps (uk uses celcius largely) - for ref, IIRC 70 C is the max safe limit for a (AMD) chip.

[Stealth]

yeah well as you can see mine never even goes half of that

i can understand it playing a bleepy noise, like BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.  but it doesn't, it plays a damn police siren LOL, which according to JarC is my motherboard heat alarm, which is very possible, but i can't see how it would overheat

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Stealth
yeah well as you can see mine never even goes half of that

i can understand it playing a bleepy noise, like BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.  but it doesn't, it plays a damn police siren LOL, which according to JarC is my motherboard heat alarm, which is very possible, but i can't see how it would overheat

Well, it could still be your voltage - that is exactly the sound my Pc would make.

Unfortunately, I can only go by my own PCs, and I don't have the same labels as on your diagnostic thingie - specifically, I don't have Vdd or vCore readings,  i have Vcc (2.70) and Vio (3.31) readings.

[Ulala]

Sometimes AIM will play ads at the top of your buddy list window with sound and all, but I haven't heard any with sirens, nor have I heard the same ad/sounds twice.. so I'm at a loss as well.