My pc beeps continuously

[algis87]

I am hearing continuous beeps from my pc when playing games. First time I heard it when I was playing GTA4. The second time was yesterday, I was playing battlefield 2 and converting my music the same time, after a minute of playing, my pc started beeping continuously. I realized that when my CPU uses full power of two cores, it starts beeping. I checked core temperatures with a program called core temp, temp was:
Core 0: 75 C
Core 1: 73 C
Is this temperarature normal or critical? Why is my pc beeping?
My pc specs are:
Gigabyte M61PM-S2 motherboard
AMD athlon 64 x2 6000+ CPU
GeForce 9600gt video card
2gb of 800mhz DDR2 RAM
And I use windows xp sp3 32 bit
I dont know if its the CPU's problem, so I posted it here(the beeps are coming from the motherboard I think)
Thanks for your answers in advance. Sorry if this is the wrong category.

 

[Dahak]

That is your overheat alarm in the bios.You definately have a heat issue.I recommend removing the heatsink,clean all the old thermal grease off bothe the heatsink and CPU,then re-apply new thermal grease to the CPU and reseat the heatsink.Goodluck.

Dahak

ASUS P5N-D
C2D E8500 STOCK
ZALMAN 9700 CPU COOLER
2X2GIG DDR2 1066 IN DC MODE
TOUGHPOWER 850WATT PSU
EVGA GTX 260
SMILIDON RAIDMAX GAMING CASE
LG 24IN WS LCD 1920X1080
250GIG HD/500GIG HD
LOGITECH G15 GAMING KEYBOARD
G5 GAMING MOUSE
LOGITECH Z-5500 5.1 SURROUND SYSTEM
500WATS CONTINUOUS,1000 PEAK
WIN XP PRO

 

[Dahak]

That is your overheat alarm in the bios.You definately have a heat issue.I recommend removing the heatsink,clean all the old thermal grease off bothe the heatsink and CPU,then re-apply new thermal grease to the CPU and reseat the heatsink.Goodluck.

Dahak

ASUS P5N-D
C2D E8500 STOCK
ZALMAN 9700 CPU COOLER
2X2GIG DDR2 1066 IN DC MODE
TOUGHPOWER 850WATT PSU
EVGA GTX 260
SMILIDON RAIDMAX GAMING CASE
LG 24IN WS LCD 1920X1080
250GIG HD/500GIG HD
LOGITECH G15 GAMING KEYBOARD
G5 GAMING MOUSE
LOGITECH Z-5500 5.1 SURROUND SYSTEM
500WATS CONTINUOUS,1000 PEAK
WIN XP PRO

 

[Onus]

Yep. You're overheating. If replacing the thermal interface material doesn't help, you may need a better cooler. If your system is overclocked, back it down until you get this fixed.

 

[jsc]

Two choices : Fix your cooling. Perhaps a better HSF.
Or go into the BIOS and set your thermal alarm for 80 C.

 

[algis87]

Thanks for all your answers. I solved the problem. CPU fan was full of dust, i can't believe it was still working with all that dust. I cleaned everything and no overheating problems now.

 

[Onus]

That's a good thing to do every six months or so. Glad that's all it was.

 

[captaincharisma]

its odd that the PC did not shut itself down if it was overheating or is that a feature only intel setup would have?