ocassion annoying sound from a Mediondesktop

MinnyMinor · 05-02-2011 10:12pm #1

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

5uspect · 06-02-2011 12:36pm

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?

MinnyMinor · 06-02-2011 12:39pm

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.

5uspect · 06-02-2011 1:41pm

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.

MinnyMinor · 06-02-2011 1:44pm

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

5uspect · 06-02-2011 2:14pm

Have you pin pointed where abouts it is coming from?

MinnyMinor · 06-02-2011 5:11pm

5uspect wrote: »

Have you pin pointed where abouts it is coming from?

no only the case, will have to
open and see

mordeith · 07-02-2011 1:16pm

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

MinnyMinor · 07-02-2011 1:29pm

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

mordeith · 08-02-2011 3:43pm

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

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)

ocassion annoying sound from a Mediondesktop

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