It started happening yesterday. It's an annoying sound. When I minimize the screen, it no longer makes the noise. Please help
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you need to reinstall your sound system.\n\nusally it soundmax or something. Its on your Dell Accessories disc (if you have a dell).\n\nthe bleep is is the only sound a computer knows how to make.
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First, do you mean that it's beeping over and over or is it giving you a constant tone?  If it's a constant tone, see the last response about the power supply.  If it's beeping over and over, read on.\n\nIs this beep happening during POST or after the OS has loaded (or both).  If it's happening while BIOS is loading, it is most likely not related to your OS.  Replacing your CMOS battery may resolve the problem, but will be most effective if you unplug your system and then change the battery, as this will reset CMOS.  After doing this, you may need to change some BIOS settings.\n\nHow old is your system?  If it is fairly new, and from a known manufacture (HP, Dell...), there may be a FlashBIOS update for your system.  \n\nAre you getting any warning messages during POST?  The beeps are often due to simple keyboard or mouse errors.  You could try switching out your input devices, to see if your BIOS does not like them.  You might edit BIOS to disable the quick POST.  This will allow you to see exactly what is happening during your boot, and may show you some error. \n\nYou say the sound continues after you remove the speaker?  From where is the sound coming after the speaker is removed?  Perhaps your system requires exorcism.
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Look on the tools bar, and see if changing the sound option there helps...;
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re-install it. mine does that all the time.
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go to device manager and reinstall the sound driver, it is probably corrupt, just click on reinstall driver
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could be the graphics card, try a different driver, also try a different power cable for the monitor, very unlikely it is the cable but worth a try. If you have a nother graphics card you could try then try that, if problem still persists then it is your monitor, may still be under warranty, you may want to check that.
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try hitting the start key on the keyboard. it should look like a little wavy flag
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if its making a loud whurrrrring sound, like a hum in way that means your air input fans and/or power unit fan are clogged with dirt and the fan is straining, causing the noise.\n\nif you have a fan on your processor as well, check it.
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it happened with me also one time dont worry about it\nits software problem\nif it repeat itself all the time then reinstall ur windows
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I don't know but the same thing is happening to my computer. So I'm going to stay posted on your question to see if anything helps.
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Try making sure all connections are plugged in correctly, mute isnt on and if all fails try looking at your sound card try downloading a new driver for it.
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Are you running some media program (like WinAmp) or some sound recording program that is currently using your microphone and speakers ?\n\nIf so, you will need to stop those.
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I have the same problem. It's because of a problem with the phone line. There is either static, noise, or a bad ground on your phone line. I have found that some times it helps to shut down and reboot. Dial up is the worst, this is all I can get were I live. Try another service. Also have you up dated your windows, And virus protection? It also helps to Remove everything you don't need or wont from you computer, the more you have, the slower you computer works. Hope this helps, It did wonders for mine.
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Any sound that starts to come out of computer case that wasn't there before is a bad sign.  Especially if your friend was right and its coming from your hard drive.  Often with old drives the boom gets worn down and actually begins to drag on the hard drive platter.  The correct action would be to first and immediately backup any important data.  Then find out if your hard drive supports S.M.A.R.T. which is a feature in modern HDD's that allow the user to diagnose problems.  I would advise just googling it, but i use a program called "speedfan" to monitor my S.M.A.R.T. enabled drives.  Also you may want to run "check disk" from the control panel in windows.  It could be the sound of fans spinning up especially if its a laptop but its probably not caused by overheating.  Lastly you should double check to make sure nothing is touching the fan blades inside your case.  Any rubbing here will cause a sound.
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Check and make sure your sound for the computer is on. If you are online, make sure the volume on that website is turned on. I have had similar problems. \nGood Luck
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Possible Things To Check:\nGo To Sub-Menu CONTROL PANELS - SOUNDS AND AUDIO DEVICES\n It is possible that one of the MUTE check boxes may be\nchecked. Uncheck the boxes if checked.\n On many computers there are two holes next to each other   for SOUND plug-in and MICROPHONE plug-in. You may have this mixed up, check this.\n Check for updated drivers by doing the following...\nGo to "START" Sub-Menu and access Application "RUN". Type in "compmgmt.msc" and hit "OK" button. In this application go to "device manager" and double check the "sound" sub-menu for a yellow triangle symbol. If you see one, you need to update the driver, this will sound the problem.\n\nThis is what I recommend :)
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the fact that it was next morning suggests to me that it's not overheating. if a fan stops working it will not stop computer booting up, i think the sound may be your hard drive maybe. have you got access to another hard drive you could stick in and try? or a computer you could try yours in just to check if it boots. diagnosis is the key here!!!!