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Unexplained beep sound

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Anonymous
March 8, 2005 2:33:48 PM

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While watching TV last night, I heard a single beep emit
from my Dell Dimension 8400 (received 1/5/05). The
computer and the monitor were both on, but nothing was
running in Task Manager. No error message was
displayed. Thirty or so minutes later, I heard it
again. I'm connected to the internet via a cable modem
and wired router, but I have McAfee Security Center
running - including the McAfee Firewall.

I checked under Control Panel and Sounds and found that
the "beep" sounded very similar to - Windows XP
Information Bar sound.

What could this be?

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Anonymous
March 8, 2005 5:54:39 PM

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Perhaps your smoke alarm needs a new battery.

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"sheppardwk" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5dbe01c52415$c0490050$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> While watching TV last night, I heard a single beep emit
> from my Dell Dimension 8400 (received 1/5/05). The
> computer and the monitor were both on, but nothing was
> running in Task Manager. No error message was
> displayed. Thirty or so minutes later, I heard it
> again. I'm connected to the internet via a cable modem
> and wired router, but I have McAfee Security Center
> running - including the McAfee Firewall.
>
> I checked under Control Panel and Sounds and found that
> the "beep" sounded very similar to - Windows XP
> Information Bar sound.
>
> What could this be?
March 11, 2005 7:53:04 AM

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it happened to us to last night and no one was on the computer

"sheppardwk" wrote:

> While watching TV last night, I heard a single beep emit
> from my Dell Dimension 8400 (received 1/5/05). The
> computer and the monitor were both on, but nothing was
> running in Task Manager. No error message was
> displayed. Thirty or so minutes later, I heard it
> again. I'm connected to the internet via a cable modem
> and wired router, but I have McAfee Security Center
> running - including the McAfee Firewall.
>
> I checked under Control Panel and Sounds and found that
> the "beep" sounded very similar to - Windows XP
> Information Bar sound.
>
> What could this be?
>
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