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TheProf · 10-24-2005, 06:41 AM

G'day.

So I'm not quite sure what's going on here, but over the weekend my computer started to act up.

First, while I was walking by the computer room I hear a siren sound. I check it out and find that the sound is coming from the CPU. I check the computer and it is 'sorta' functional. Mouse working, keyboard responding, etc.

I normally have speedfan running in the system tray (great little free program) which monitors fans and temps, and it's reporting a temperature of 127 degrees C. Now I wasn't sure for what part of the computer, since when I tried to expand the program, the computer froze and I had to hard reset. I'd imagine that only the CPU could only really reach 127 degrees so the siren is probably the BIOS signalling an overheat.

Reboot the machine, only to have it start the siren ring again as it's counting RAM, so I kill the power and leave it for a day off.

Come in this morning to turn it on, and lo and behold, no siren! RAM checks out OK, all Hard drives found during IDE scan and SMART is enabled, but then, when it should be booting Win XP off the main drive, it gives me 'Disk error, press any key to restart' and the drive makes this weird sound - closest thing I can describe is that it makes the exact same sound a hard drive makes when you turn OFF a computer. That sort of click and spinning down sound.

So...what the heck is going on?

10-24-2005, 06:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
TheProf Crazy	Siren noises, hard drive failures - oh my! G'day. So I'm not quite sure what's going on here, but over the weekend my computer started to act up. First, while I was walking by the computer room I hear a siren sound. I check it out and find that the sound is coming from the CPU. I check the computer and it is 'sorta' functional. Mouse working, keyboard responding, etc. I normally have speedfan running in the system tray (great little free program) which monitors fans and temps, and it's reporting a temperature of 127 degrees C. Now I wasn't sure for what part of the computer, since when I tried to expand the program, the computer froze and I had to hard reset. I'd imagine that only the CPU could only really reach 127 degrees so the siren is probably the BIOS signalling an overheat. Reboot the machine, only to have it start the siren ring again as it's counting RAM, so I kill the power and leave it for a day off. Come in this morning to turn it on, and lo and behold, no siren! RAM checks out OK, all Hard drives found during IDE scan and SMART is enabled, but then, when it should be booting Win XP off the main drive, it gives me 'Disk error, press any key to restart' and the drive makes this weird sound - closest thing I can describe is that it makes the exact same sound a hard drive makes when you turn OFF a computer. That sort of click and spinning down sound. So...what the heck is going on?