Dear Forum,

Every once in a while, my computer emits a series of tones; kind of like bell sounds, and it then runs slow. The first tone is a long one, then the others are rapid fire, short tones; maybe 30 in total.

It is a Q8200, Core 2 Quad, 2.33GHz with 3.25GB of RAM.

I thought it was a thermal problem, but I have installed fans, and everything is pretty cool. The cores are running ~44d degrees C.

Are the beeps an error code?

Thanks!
Mike
 1) What is new or different since the last time everything worked properly (ie, new HW, new sw, virus, error, etc)?
2) Boot to safe mode and see if the same thing happens.
3) Bios error codes occur at boot, not within the OSWhat M Board do you have? Allan is much more qualified than I am to HELP you. I was just curious since I also use a C2Q 8200. My M Board is Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R
It is an Asus P5QL.
The RAM is 3.25G [email protected] 800 PC6400.
Could it need more RAM?
Thanks a lot!
Mike
 Kind of sounds like keys are believing that they are stuck down.

It does still sound like a thermal issue however, with an audio alarm for temps/CPU throttling.

What are you typically doing on the machine when it occurs?Hi Kurtiskain!
Thank you for the reply. I'm still having trouble with this, so I thought I would revive the thread.
I'm not sure if there is any specific thing that I'm doing when it occurs. It seems to take a while after rebooting before it occurs; USUALLY after opening a few browser windows, and with my stock trading platform running.
A friend of MINE said that it sounded like a key was stuck.
By the way; my invoice says there was 4Gb of RAM installed, but the System Properties shows only 3.25Gb. Is there a problem with not all of it being recognized?
I appreciate any insights!
Thanks,
Mike1) Have you tried a different keyboard?
2) Have you tried a clean boot (disable all startup items)?