one loud tone

Two or three times, separated by weeks, the PC has let out a medium-high
tone, for 2 or 3 seconds, as loud as my speakers go, I think.

Does this mean something, or does Mr. Gates do this just to scare me?

I checked the temperature of the CPU/HDD, and it was 1 or 2 degrees C
below the max, but it took me a while to remember how to do that and
maybe it had cooled off.

Is there a later warning that's even more frequent or more dramatic than
the one loud tone?

(What would be nice is a message on the screen that said why the tone
was sounding, but I guess that would take a lot more effort. )

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:37:12 -0500, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2018-12-08 19:40, micky wrote:
Two or three times, separated by weeks, the PC has let out a medium-high
tone, for 2 or 3 seconds, as loud as my speakers go, I think.

Does this mean something, or does Mr. Gates do this just to scare me?

I checked the temperature of the CPU/HDD, and it was 1 or 2 degrees C
below the max, but it took me a while to remember how to do that and
maybe it had cooled off.

Is there a later warning that's even more frequent or more dramatic than
the one loud tone?

(What would be nice is a message on the screen that said why the tone
was sounding, but I guess that would take a lot more effort. )


Maybe this will help:

https://www.biosflash.com/e/bios-beeps.htm

This one is great, and I bookmarked it.

But none of its descriptions match my one long beep and when I searched
for hot and a couple other words, I didnt' find them. However searching
for CPU gave me this:
High freq. beeps (while running) CPU is overheating. CPU fan failure

But it says beepS plural. Also high frequency really doesn't describe
it.

Or this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/...g-running.html

This page led to others and the list of sounds or things that can go
wrong is amazing. Still didnt' find mine.

I know how to check CPU temp now and I'll do it immediately if I ever
get that noise again. I'll also clean the dust out of the box again.
I can see some around the holes in the front, but it's still 90+% open.

Thanks.

Best,

micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:37:12 -0500, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2018-12-08 19:40, micky wrote:
Two or three times, separated by weeks, the PC has let out a medium-high
tone, for 2 or 3 seconds, as loud as my speakers go, I think.

Does this mean something, or does Mr. Gates do this just to scare me?

I checked the temperature of the CPU/HDD, and it was 1 or 2 degrees C
below the max, but it took me a while to remember how to do that and
maybe it had cooled off.

Is there a later warning that's even more frequent or more dramatic than
the one loud tone?

(What would be nice is a message on the screen that said why the tone
was sounding, but I guess that would take a lot more effort. )

Maybe this will help:

https://www.biosflash.com/e/bios-beeps.htm

This one is great, and I bookmarked it.

But none of its descriptions match my one long beep and when I searched
for hot and a couple other words, I didnt' find them. However searching
for CPU gave me this:
High freq. beeps (while running) CPU is overheating. CPU fan failure

But it says beepS plural. Also high frequency really doesn't describe
it.

Or this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/...g-running.html

This page led to others and the list of sounds or things that can go
wrong is amazing. Still didnt' find mine.

I know how to check CPU temp now and I'll do it immediately if I ever
get that noise again. I'll also clean the dust out of the box again.
I can see some around the holes in the front, but it's still 90+% open.

Thanks.

How about:

1) Speedfan temperature readout.

http://www.almico.com/speedfan452.exe

2) Prime95 Torture Test (to heat up CPU)

https://www.mersenne.org/download/#download

When it says "Join GIMPS", answer "Just Testing".
It runs one test thread per CPU core.

A properly designed CPU cooling, should keep the CPU below
the shutdown temperature, while Prime95 is running.

The CPU has two temperature points:

1) Throttle temperature. CPU reduces computing rate in
an attempt to keep the temperature from damaging the CPU.
Let's say this is 100C for example, just to make up a
number.

2) THERMTRIP. The CPU has a signal pin which causes
the ATX power supply to shut off. This one is at
120C (about 20C higher than Throttle).

If the heatsink falls off, it takes one to two seconds
for THERMTRIP to kill the power.

On some Dells, if the Northbridge heatsink falls off,
the PC won't start. There's a continuity tester across
the Northbridge, and if the circuit opens, it kills
the powerup stuff. But that method is only used for
the heatsinks with the springy steel seatbelts for
retention.

The video card generally has no shutdown methods.
The very latest cards are "multi-dimensional" self-regulating,
and throttle in various ways when too hot or they've
hit the power limit. You can't roast one with
Furmark any more. The video card will back off
at some point. (If no driver was loaded, we don't
know what happens then.)

(The video card responds to loads placed on it, by adjusting
the operating parameters, including fan speed...)

https://i.postimg.cc/85cZzPxf/furmark.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/GhvnCqFw/Smoke-Particles2.jpg

I ran a test on my PC the other day, and managed to
drive it up to 350W. When it should be able to hit
380W if I put the right loadings on it. I'm thinking
the video card heatsink might not be enough, but
that's going to be hard to fix. At idle, the PC draws
100W (depends on whether HDDs or SSDs are in the box).

Have fun,
Paul

micky wrote:
Â*Â*Â* I'll also clean the dust out of the box again.
I can see some around the holes in the front, but it's still 90+% open.
Thanks.
The thing you should be cleaning is the processor heat sink.
I buy used computers. Almost always, the heat sink fins
are full of cat hair under the fan.

On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 19:13:33 -0800, mike wrote:


micky wrote:
Â*Â*Â* I'll also clean the dust out of the box again.
I can see some around the holes in the front, but it's still 90+% open.
Thanks.
The thing you should be cleaning is the processor heat sink.
I buy used computers. Almost always, the heat sink fins
are full of cat hair under the fan.



Not to claim you're wrong (there's no way I could know that), but how
do you know it's always cat hair rather than sometimes being dog hair
(or some other kind)?