Computer Beeps

[Tubz]

Here's a hard question to possibly answer. I caused this proble,, I don't even know how I caused it. But how do I fix it?

Everytime I click something with my mouse, or right click, or use the keyboard arrow keys to select something, the computer makes a beep?

How do I get rid of this sound?

~Thanks for the help

[Radium]

Stop cussing.

[Link]

Restart the computer. If that doesn't work, you probably have one of Windows' accessibility options turned on. Turn it off in Control Panel (it would either be in "Keyboard" or "Accessibility").

Radium, spamming here just impedes progress and is annoying for both the helpers and the people who need help.

[Tubz]

Err, that didn't work. Nothing was turned on in either place. Any other way? Could there be something wrong with the sound card?

[Link]

Is the sound coming from the PC speaker (tiny speaker inside the computer)? Or from the normal speakers (i.e. you can turn it off if you turn them off)? I doubt it is a sound card problem though.

Did you try restarting the computer? What about unplugging the keyboard and mouse and reinserting them? Are they USB or PS/2 (or serial, maybe) interface? What operating system do you have? When did the problem start (and what were you doing at the time)?

[Odin]

Could be a buffer error.

Prognosis: Add RAM.

-ThO

[Tubz]

Tried restarting the computer. Going to try taking out and replugging in all of the devices. I can't remember wha i was doing at the time, but the problem pretty much happened like saturday or something last week. Could it be from playing the DOS games under Windows XP?

[Tubz]

--Problem still not fixed--

[NeoBlaze]

Check your connections (that is, inside the computer cover too). Sometimes a bad connection causes sounds like beeps or other kinds of noises.

[Newspaz]

Scan for viruses is what I'd recommend. If nothing works just disconnect your speaker. Most people only use it for the POST test anyway.

[NeoBlaze]

No, don't disconnect your speaker (post tests). Cause someday, it may be fatal to your computer that you don't hear the POST beeps.

[Tubz]

Hmm, I'll have to check what's wrong in the back of the PC. About the RAM, I'm already maxed out.

[Newspaz]

No, don't disconnect your speaker (post tests). Cause someday, it may be fatal to your computer that you don't hear the POST beeps.

As far as I know, the POST only gives error codes, and not warnings. So if something strange happens, you can always reconnect it to see if there are any. It's not like it's going to give you beeps to warn you your computer is going to explode in eight seconds ;P. As far as I know the system just stops after the beeps.

[Link]

Disconnecting the speaker is a workaround, not a solution. There is some logical reason that this is occurring, and it would be best to determine that.

Try starting Windows in safe mode. If that doesn't help, start a different operating system (e.g. DOS boot disk, Knoppix, etc) and see if it stops. If it only occurs in Windows, you have a Windows configuration problem or a certain program is causing it. If it occurs regardless of the operating system, it is a hardware or BIOS problem.

[NeoBlaze]

As far as I know, the POST only gives error codes, and not warnings. So if something strange happens, you can always reconnect it to see if there are any. It's not like it's going to give you beeps to warn you your computer is going to explode in eight seconds ;P. As far as I know the system just stops after the beeps.
Sometimes the beeps are about the proccessor or fan overheat.

[Newspaz]

Not as far as I know. How much sense would that make? The CPU would already be overheated before you'd even have figured out what the beeps mean?

[NeoBlaze]

Well, on my computer it starts beepin and halts if the fan is out of order or if CPU is in dangerous temperature > 65 degrees Celsius. But it doesn't get higher than that.

[Tubz]

As far as I know, the POST only gives error codes, and not warnings. So if something strange happens, you can always reconnect it to see if there are any. It's not like it's going to give you beeps to warn you your computer is going to explode in eight seconds ;P. As far as I know the system just stops after the beeps.

Each beep has to do a with a warning about one of your system failures. I think 2 beeps is a memory error.

[NeoBlaze]

Each beep has to do a with a warning about one of your system failures. I think 2 beeps is a memory error.
...and how am I going to know that I got some d#mn memory error if I ain't got no beeper? Sorry, I meant speaker.

[Tubz]

^^^

You don't need a speaker. It does it through the pc, something called a PC speaker. Which are sounds produced by the CPU. If you play DOS games a lot, and don't have a sound card, you'd understand better what I mean, that is if I'm still losing you.

[Newspaz]

Each beep has to do a with a warning about one of your system failures. I think 2 beeps is a memory error.
Tublear, we know what the beeps are, we know what PC-Speakers are. We're just discussing if the PC-Speaker is important or not. In my opinion it isn't.

[NeoBlaze]

You don't need a speaker. It does it through the pc, something called a PC speaker. Which are sounds produced by the CPU. If you play DOS games a lot, and don't have a sound card, you'd understand better what I mean, that is if I'm still losing you.

I'd hate to tell ya, but you are completely wrong about the speaker.
In order to produce a sound, an object has to have a sound unit, which trembles and produces sounds (that's just rough, I don't know how it works in detail). Processor does not have any built-in feature to produce sound, the only purpose of processor is to process code. All the dos-games sounds go thru the speaker, which is connected to the motherboard. But, the speaker cannot produce complex sounds. Therefore all that kind of sounds go thru the soundcard. And if you set-up dos games properly, some of them can use soundcard as well.
Now, there is a special driver (I think, it's called PC Speaker for Windows). If you remove the soundcard and install this driver, all the complex music will go thru the speaker (in a mono and really really plain form)... but that's another story.
The point is, all the beeping sounds go only thru the SPEAKER.
That's how it was on Pentium I, II and III computers that I've used.