beep beep beep, bloomin' noise

[flat spot]

I have a new comp (albeit second hand). Anyhoo, when I play the quake for a while a beeping noise comes from the case. Nahh Niiii, nahh, niiii etc etc. It does this for a few mins then goes off. A few mins later it's off again, nahh nii, nahh , nii. When I come of the quake and go on something else it stops. It never comes on when I surf the net.

Any ideas? I think its a warning of some sort but who knows. Anyone know how to disable such things? It's on Win XP if thats of any help.

Cheers F.S.

[Hex]

Its the temperature warning, go in the bios and disable it or make it come on at a later (warmer) stage.
____________________
The BCF's very own Party boy! Though he's getting old and feeling it!
Monkey hanger, Born and bred
My little photo portfolio

[flat spot]

Found it thanks. Oh the joys of the internet. What's a safe temp to have it at though? Gone up to 65 degs.

[Ahmato_]

Get some ventilation in there, I changed the position of mine to a cooler place, and now it runs fine
____________________
SavageKymco wrote: lol yea yea, im just gettin food here, keep my strength up you know. all this killing takes a lot out of a guy Ha ha

[flat spot]

Just had a game, no beeping. Sorted. Of coarse when you're quake champion it's got a lot of calculations to do.

[McJamweasel]

What CPU do you have?

Have you checked your fans/vents/heatsinks are all clean and free of dust?

The last thing you want to do is mask a serious overheating problem by upping the limit.
____________________
BCF: Be yourself, just don't be an arse.

[flat spot]

2.8 pent 4 thingy. Doubt it's full of dust 'cos it's just been built up, but I guess I'll check anyway.

[daz|n00by]

i have my alarm set to go off at 67 degrees, this reminds me to take of my cooler fan and clean the nice sheet of dust that it has made on the heatsink.
____________________
"Its Better To Burn Out Than Fade Away!!!!!!" "Lifes a bitch and then you Die"
"I`m a tool, one with just enough intelligence to know it, just enough spirit to resent it...but not enough backbone to do anything about it. " Siggi 2006 pure class.

[veeeffarr]

Quake 1?

What's your name?

[simon1221]

Get some case fans in there or get a better CPU fan, also consider moving the PC box somewhere out into the open a little (not stuck under a desk / in a corner).
____________________
DNA50 (sorry) ->> TZR125l >> GPZ500S

[Jamie.]

Pentium say that up to 94 degrees is stable operating temperature

[flat spot]

[simon1221]

Because mine does it in hot weather, I stuck loads of books etc on and around it without realising and it got to about 50 degrees without load.

So I moved it a bit, and stuck 4 case fans on the front and back

You may want to consider moving drives / cables around to get better airflow as well.
____________________
DNA50 (sorry) ->> TZR125l >> GPZ500S

[veeeffarr]