Mysterious Beep?

i opened the case and shut the system down, stuck my ear in there, and found that the sound was actually coming from one of the hard drives (seagate 320mb SATA, 7200.10)...

this is a new build, and this was my main drive for a few weeks until I added a 150gb Raptor, and made that the "new" system/C drive...the seagate became the E drive...

i had both HDs hooked up to the same wire coming out of the PSU (Corsair hx520)- the PSU only came with 1 SATA connector with 2 SATA leads on it...

do you guys think it had something to do with hooking up 2 drives on one line from the PSU? Or is the hard drive going bad?

I took the Seagate out and just left the Raptor in, and no beep was heard upon shutdown...then I put the Seagate in an external enclosure and it booted up fine and all the files were still on it...when i shut the external enclosure down I didn't hear a beep...

furthermore, i didn't know that hard drives beeped at all...

any help as to what's actually going on would be greatly appreciated...

You might get more help if you post in the computer hardware section.

Don't worry about that; I had this with a few HD's already and none of them died yet...

thanks for the reply, that puts my mind at ease a little...

i didn't even know that HDs beeped at all, so i was surprised at the source of the sound...

any idea on why the drive just beeps only on shutdown? like i said, it doesn't do it in the external enclosure, but it did it in my system...could it be some kind of power issue?

an hx520 should be enough to run a stock 8800gt, stock e8400, 4 gigs RAM, 1 dvd drive and 6 fans (1 on the zerotherm CPU heatsink), right?

I mean, that should be a sufficient power supply, especially since I have done no overclocking, right?

I have the beep as well, only mine is definitely the fan on the CPU cooler. The cooler is a CoolerMaster Hyper TX 2. I can unplug the fan (not putting power to the CPU when I do this), and the beep does not occur. Anyone have any ideas?

Edit: I didnt get this till I mounted the cooler sideways, and now that I look at it it looks like there there is some oil around the fan casing (maybe a bad bearing?).

Hi laro6781;

Did you ever find out what the deal was with the oil on the fan?

I have the same thing, which I discovered after I had to take the machine apart because the TX 2 was started knocking against the fan housing.

Sitting on it's side, (heat pipe ends pointed up), it's silent again.

I get a loud beep just after coming back from standby - watching, I see it takes a LONG time for the TX 2 to spin up. Other fans connected to the motherboard come up much quicker, so I reckon the beep is just the BIOS panicking briefly.

Cheers,

Peter

Hi Peter,

I called Cooler Master and they shipped me a new fan, and now the beep is gone. You are right though, the fan does take a long time to spool up. You may want to call CM and see if you can RMA a new fan.

John