Pc beeps once after every 2 or 3 minutes. What does my pc want to tell me?

Originally Posted by paul john

Pc beeps once after every 2 or 3 minutes. What does my pc want to tell me?

You haven't really given us too much to go on.
Is it working ok? Have you made any changes to it recently? Is the computer responding when you boot up?

Take a look at these links.


Beeps once every three minutes like clockwork

If my computer beeps and fails to boot, what do the beeps mean? - Knowledge Base

It's working completely fine. I'll try the first options mentioned in the first link you noted (battery and heatsink).

(what are the exact details do we need to narrow down the problem?)

If your computer seems to be working fine, have you noticed anything like your having to keep updating time and date on your computer. One of the posts indicated the CMOS battery might need replacing.


Beeps once every three minutes like clockwork

I just read through this link again. There are some valid solutions but some I just noticed are just a hoot. Guys got carried away.

After several days of checking links on how to resolve this issue, without actually doing any, my pc just stopped beeping.

could be hard drive is full up, not emptied recycle bin have you or deleted stuff off the hard drive, that said bios battery is still favourite

I would also check to make sure that your time and date are still right. If have to keep resetting them then it is likely the CMOS battery. It is like a watch battery. Last time I bought one, came in a pack of two little over $5.00. Wouldn't hurt to change it anyway. Just because it stopped beeping, doesn't mean it wasn't beeping for a reason.

Time and date are still ok, no experience of having to set them correctly ever since. But a bluescreen is first to appear when pc is booting up... then a log-in prompt appears (which I never set up). When log-in is clicked, everything works fine aside from a 2-3 minutes of wait prior to work with your pc (you can move the mouse all over the desktop but cannot click on anything for 2-3 minutes initially).

could be either start up programs or malware, what anti virus do you have, go into msconfig and look for programs that are starting that dont need to be.

if its slow getting windows to start it could be trying to boot from wrong device, easy way is load defaults in bios then disable floppy drive, or if its set as first boot device change it to the hard drive

How would I know the things that should be running and the things that should not be?