The sounds your PC tower makes when you reboot or turn your PC on are not always noises you can simply ignore. Before your PC boots its operating system, the motherboard runs a suite of diagnostic ...

It comes out of the speakers so its not the onboard speaker. If I change the default beep to something more gentle, at least the sound won't be so loud and abrupt but I want to get rid of any system ...

The type of beep your computer makes when starting up is meant to explain your computer's status. One long, continuous beep generally means that there is a hardware problem – often memory related – ...

OK, this is weird; I am working on a Gateway 300SE, a small form factor desktop, Celeron 1.8 GHz system. The hard drive had failed, so I replaced it & installed Windows XP Home clean. At some point ...