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ocassion annoying sound from a Mediondesktop

  • 05-02-2011 11:12pm
    #1
    MinnyMinor
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    I have a Medion desktop PC MD 8341. When i boot there is a sort of high pitched sound for a short time of, I think the hard drive spinning. Then it stops and there are little sound when the disk is used

    But sometimes this sound will not stop. I thought before it may be fan and maybe it is. does the fan come on for a short while when booting or returning from hibernate. It only happens rarely but is annoying


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  • #2
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,518 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    A fan wouldn't sound high pitched, more of a "whoosh" sound.
    Hard drives aren't particularity loud when they spin up.
    Can you open the case and try to locate the source of the sound?


  • #3
    MinnyMinor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 409 ✭✭MinnyMinor


    5uspect wrote: »
    A fan wouldn't sound high pitched, more of a "whoosh" sound.
    Hard drives aren't particularity loud when they spin up.
    Can you open the case and try to locate the source of the sound?
    thanks is it just the sound of booting then? why does it sometimes continue.


  • #4
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,518 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    It depends on the model but many motherboards have warning beeps that are designed to tell you something is wrong. Usually there are a series of long beeps or a continuous beep. This could mean anything so you should look up the beep warnings for your particular PC.


  • #5
    MinnyMinor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 409 ✭✭MinnyMinor


    5uspect wrote: »
    It depends on the model but many motherboards have warning beeps that are designed to tell you something is wrong. Usually there are a series of long beeps or a continuous beep. This could mean anything so you should look up the beep warnings for your particular PC.
    thanks it is not a beep but a continuous sound.it is just the sound of starting but sometimes it does not stop


  • #6
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,518 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Have you pin pointed where abouts it is coming from?


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  • #7
    MinnyMinor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 409 ✭✭MinnyMinor


    5uspect wrote: »
    Have you pin pointed where abouts it is coming from?
    no only the case, will have to
    open and see


  • #8
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    MinnyMinor wrote: »
    thanks it is not a beep but a continuous sound.it is just the sound of starting but sometimes it does not stop

    Might be a temperature warning alarm. Try seeing if there is an alarm enabled in the BIOS. If so disable it and try booting again to see if sound stops. If this proves to be the case, then I would recommend turing the alarm back on to prevent your CPU frying :D


  • #9
    MinnyMinor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 409 ✭✭MinnyMinor


    mordeith wrote: »
    Might be a temperature warning alarm. Try seeing if there is an alarm enabled in the BIOS. If so disable it and try booting again to see if sound stops. If this proves to be the case, then I would recommend turing the alarm back on:D to prevent your CPU frying
    thanks but there would not be temp issue at boot up would there? can i upload that sound here. it is only a couple seconds at boot but sometimes it stays on
    turing the alarm back on:D to prevent your CPU frying
    :D:D


  • #10
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    MinnyMinor wrote: »
    thanks but there would not be temp issue at boot up would there? can i upload that sound here. it is only a couple seconds at boot but sometimes it stays on
    :D:D

    You would think that alright but my PC started doing just that. Immediately on startup the alarm would sound and could go on for a couple of minutes. Usually it would stop when Windows had fully loaded.

    You could always upload the sound to google docs and share the link (not sure if you can upload directly to boards.ie)


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