Every so often when I strike a key, my computer's internal speaker beeps...does anybody know why that is?
For the record, the only change I've made to my computer lately is adding a second hard drive.
What causes this?
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What causes this?
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Re: What causes this?
I have no idea about yours, but I figure I'll post my computer quirk here.Dalton wrote:Every so often when I strike a key, my computer's internal speaker beeps...does anybody know why that is?
For the record, the only change I've made to my computer lately is adding a second hard drive.
All of a sudden, for absolutely NO discernable reason, it will reboot itself. Like a few minutes ago, in the middle of posting a reply to a thread, it just restarted itself. No warning, just a black screen and a restart.
WTF is up with that?
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Not so far as I know. Why would it do that when I'm in the middle of typing in a textbox?Superman wrote:Rogue, is there any chance that you hit a combination of keys by mistake? That could cause it.
Plus, there have been times when it does that when I'm just sitting there listening to music, not hitting ANY keys, or even moving the mouse for that matter.
This is the price of war,
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And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
OH, ROGUE, I bet I know what is going on. Check your PC cables. Either a connection or a cable itself is bad. What happens is that it disconnects for a second or two, and then reconnects to cause the PC to restart.
Try lightly wiggling your chords in the back of your tower. I would bet that one of them will cause this to happen.
Try lightly wiggling your chords in the back of your tower. I would bet that one of them will cause this to happen.
Dalton: The last time we had that problem on a machine at work, we discovered that the keyboard plug was faulty.
RogueIce: This could be a driver problem. I seen this happen a lot on Win 98/NT/2000 machines. I've not seen this happen on an XP yet.
Also, we had three older Athalon CPU's that would do this when they over-heated. This probably isn't your problem or you would have discovered it way before now. Unless, there is a fan that has ceased to function or one of the foam funnels has fallen away.
Those are my guesses from stuff we have had come into the center at work.
RogueIce: This could be a driver problem. I seen this happen a lot on Win 98/NT/2000 machines. I've not seen this happen on an XP yet.
Also, we had three older Athalon CPU's that would do this when they over-heated. This probably isn't your problem or you would have discovered it way before now. Unless, there is a fan that has ceased to function or one of the foam funnels has fallen away.
Those are my guesses from stuff we have had come into the center at work.
Ok, I'll give it a try in a while...I'm doing something at the moment. I'll let you know how it works, if it does.Superman wrote:OH, ROGUE, I bet I know what is going on. Check your PC cables. Either a connection or a cable itself is bad. What happens is that it disconnects for a second or two, and then reconnects to cause the PC to restart.
Try lightly wiggling your chords in the back of your tower. I would bet that one of them will cause this to happen.
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
Hope that helps.This IS a 98 machine. Maybe that's it. Any fixes, or am I just screwed?BrYaN19kc wrote:RogueIce: This could be a driver problem. I seen this happen a lot on Win 98/NT/2000 machines. I've not seen this happen on an XP yet.
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
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Well, I unplugged both the USB and the PS2 keyboard plugs and reconnected them. Let's hope that does the trick.BrYaN19kc wrote:Dalton: The last time we had that problem on a machine at work, we discovered that the keyboard plug was faulty.
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RogueIce..
First, I would try Superman's suggestion, it could be that too. THEN, if you are still having this problem.......
When he had this problem on Win 98, we found reinstalling the video drivers or the NIC drivers tended to fix the problem. A reinstall of the video driver tended to fix the problem more than the other. I've seen this problem listed on the Microsoft site before.
Good luck. Remember, check your cables first before you have to go through reloading a driver.
Hope this helps.
First, I would try Superman's suggestion, it could be that too. THEN, if you are still having this problem.......
When he had this problem on Win 98, we found reinstalling the video drivers or the NIC drivers tended to fix the problem. A reinstall of the video driver tended to fix the problem more than the other. I've seen this problem listed on the Microsoft site before.
Good luck. Remember, check your cables first before you have to go through reloading a driver.
Hope this helps.
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Re: What causes this?
I remember, back in the day, this occurring when I held down a key for too long or started typing too fast. Of course, the last time I had this happen was on a 486, years ago, so it's not likely to be the cause of your problem.Dalton wrote:Every so often when I strike a key, my computer's internal speaker beeps...does anybody know why that is?
For the record, the only change I've made to my computer lately is adding a second hard drive.
Unless you type very, very fast.
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Re: What causes this?
*shrug* Dis/reconnecting the board seemed to do the trick, so I'm going with either loose connection or some sort of fluke USB/PS2 communication problem.Frank_Scenario wrote:I remember, back in the day, this occurring when I held down a key for too long or started typing too fast. Of course, the last time I had this happen was on a 486, years ago, so it's not likely to be the cause of your problem.Dalton wrote:Every so often when I strike a key, my computer's internal speaker beeps...does anybody know why that is?
For the record, the only change I've made to my computer lately is adding a second hard drive.
Unless you type very, very fast.
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"y = mx + bro" - Surlethe
"You try THAT shit again, kid, and I will mod you. I will
mod you so hard, you'll wish I were Dalton." - Lagmonster
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