so basically my friend has the Fatal1ty FP-IN9 Sli motherboard, and when ever he starts up a more demanding game(Borderlands is the latest example) the motherboard starts playing this really loud and annoying warning(?) sound, my guess is that it's because of high ram usage(90%+) and the motherboard tries to warn you because if he quits the game(and thus RAM usage lowers) the sound goes away.
He is using Windows 7 and since I know that in Win7 the OS tries to 'keep' the most used programm files in RAM for faster access, so that the high ram usage isn't really an issue.
So that's the story so far, the question is - How to disable the sound since it's impossible to play with it playing(might not be the best word? ).
So far I've asked him to check BIOS for anything that would resemble the sound warning and see if it would disable it but he didn't find anything relevant there.
I've also tried googling the issue but all google comes up with are reviews of the motherboard or countless topics about how Win7 uses a lot of ram.
First off, I've never heard of a board giving warning sound for ram usage...
Chances are his board is warning him about over heating cpu...
Please give us some temp readings when he starts the game. Also the full system specs would probably help too....
------------------------------Intel C2D E8400 @3.0GHZ, Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L motherboard, 4GB OCZ vista platinum DDR2-1066 , Seagate320GBsataII 16MB HDD, BFG GTS250oc 512 GDDR3...3Dvision glasses and samsung 120HZ screen.
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